Lazy, unmotivated, and a slave to procrastination.
My day starts early at the City of Rocks. I wake up before the sun rises, hoping there are clouds in the sky to catch the sun's rays and scatter them around, turning the normal blue and yellow sky into reds and pinks. But mostly, that doesn't happen. Desert skies tend to be clear and deeply saturated blue, which is great for normal folks, but blue is boring for someone who likes to take snapshots of the sky.
As I've said before, there's not much to do here except walk around. You can walk on paths through the desert or on the road, but it's the most fun for me to walk through the boulders. Walking through the boulders reminds me of walking around Colorado, especially in places like the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs.
After the sun comes up, I'll normally be back in the camper making breakfast, working on whatever pictures I took that morning, and putting pieces of my blog together. Some folks probably sit down at the computer and make their whole blog in one sitting, but I'm far too lazy to put forth that much effort at once.
I've found what works best for me is writing and assembling my blog in bits and pieces. 10 minutes here, 15 minutes there, and by early afternoon, I'll have it completed, and as I've mentioned in the past, I don't write my blog; I dictate it. I couldn't even write a blog daily if I had to type out my blog using my unusually slow hunt-and-peck method. It would take too long. But dictating it and putting whatever pops into my head in the blog, I can throw in a few pictures I've previously taken, quite often the day before, assemble it all into Squarespace, and it's done.
Remember, I'm lazy, unmotivated, and a slave to procrastination. If I didn't keep my blog as simple as possible and with as little effort on my part as I can make it, I wouldn't even attempt to do a blog every day. But by talking about whatever I'm thinking about at the moment, having pictures that seldom have anything to do with what I'm writing about that day, and having no preconceived rules for my blog, my blog becomes quick and enjoyable for me instead of a chore.
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City of Rocks sunrise. Sunrise with clouds is much prettier, but sometimes you gotta play the hand you’re dealt, and in the desert, cloudy skies are not an everyday occurrence.
I talked to the old guy who owns this Alaskan pop-up camper. He said it’s over 50 years old, but he could still get parts for it, which amazed me. The Alaskan pop-up camper was known as the first hard-sided pop-up camper. so instead of having canvas that folds up as you put the top down, the Alaskan has an aluminum top that slides up and down on the rest of the camper.
They’re supposed to sit in the bed of the truck as my Lance does; but this one sits on its own trailer.
While moseying around the boulders, I spotted this herd of New Mexican Desert Puffins. Out of fear for my life, I hid behind a rock, as these Desert Puffins are quite dangerous and can easily peck your eyes out.
Most people don’t realize that the three most dangerous critters in the desert are rattlesnakes, scorpions, and these birds.