As They Drove From Traverse City, Illinois To Tucson, Arizona, I Wrote A Series Of Letters, Photocopied Them To Send To Relatives Friends. This Was The First Of The Two.Travel Letter 1Saturday, 121303 - Nice Morning. Welcome To Our Holiday Form Letter. We Are In Arizona Now. The Sun Is Shining It Will Be In The Sixties Today, Which Should Melt The Ice On The Windows Soon. Ana's Foot Doesn't Seem To Be Broken, As They Thought, So They Took A Long Walk In The Desert Last Night. They Saw A Coyote, Probably The Same Two I Chased The Other Day, There Were Javelina Tracks Everywhere.The Library In Safford Has Books In French, So Ana Is Enjoying Reading Now That Her Eye-patch Is Off. The Doctor Promised That The "divet" Left By His Golf-club-like Blade Will Heal Soon. They Learned That Eyeballs Have Plenty Of Nerve Endings, They Think The Object In Her Eye May Have Been A Fiber From A Yucca Plant.Our Uncontrollable Coughs Are Under Control Now, They Are Not Among The Ten People In Arizona That Died From The Flu This Week. Oh, The Antibiotics From The Safford Clinic Seem To Have Helped With Ana's Abcessed Tooth.I Should Start At The Beginning. The First Day, After Dealing With The Usual Rudeness Of The INS Employees In Detroit, They Made It To Kansas. They Hit A Traffic Cone There At High Speed, Heard A Horrible Sound Coming From Under The Van. The Cone, I Discovered, Had Been Dragging Along Underneath. Nothing Was Broken, But Later The Bright Light Switch Stopped Working.In Farmington, New Mexico, They Spent A Few Days Resting Coughing. They Were About An Hour Away From Buying A House When They Discovered It Needed New Wiring, Had A Garden Hose Attached To The Natural Gas Line, Other Problems They Missed On Our First Visit. The New Bloke Begged Me To Buy It, Called Our Motel Room To Tell Me They Needed Money For Open-heart Surgery In Two Days, Called Again To Lower The Price, But They Moved On. By The Way, The House Was To Be A Winter Project, Not A New Home.Fortunately, They Drove During Daylight After That. In The Colorado Mountains They Went From 16 To 20 Miles-per-gallon, Confusing The Sensors Causing The "check Engine" Light To Turn On. They Successfully Ignored It Until It Changed It Is Mind.Steve AnaMonument Valley Was Beautiful, The Christmas Parade In Holbrook Was Cute, Despite Various Problems Illnesses, We Are Having A Great Time. You See, I Didn't Need To Make You All Jealous, So I Left Out A Lot - The Constant Sun, The Beautiful Sculptures In Grand Junction, The Nine Times We've Been In Hot Springs In Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona. Next Week We Are Going To Mexico For Lunch. Hope All Is Well In Arizona. Adios,
