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Arrived in Phoenix

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Well we are here.  Its kind of nice actually,  I didn’t think I’d like it too much but this time I like it when I am wrong.  The weather is good and I think the high is supposed to be in the 80s.  Not the 110 I was afraid of.

Traveling is always interesting.  The plane was over an hour late due to bad weather in OK.  Also everyone in downtown phoenix charges for interenet access.  The hotel wants $13/day.  That is a bit high seeing how I pay 40 for a month.  I couldn’t get on at Starbucks because they require you to have some kind of Starbucks card.  I guess I didn’t think of internet access as a commodity.   I finally found a free hotspot at the hotel but you only have 45minutes a day to use it.  Lame.

Here is a pic from our room:

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Country Life (ca. 1896)

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Greeley is an alright place.  You need to have the right mindset going into anything.  Tonight after work Cassie and I decided to saddle up the bikes and go for a ride into town.   There is a place downtown called Patrick’s.  Its a new bar that is in a 100yr old brick building.  They had a bluegrass band called “Reservoir Rd”.  I used to live by Reservoir Rd when I was growing up.
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After that we went to the Relay for Life down at Island Grove Park.  That is where I think most people in Greeley were at the moment.

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It was fun.  We rode our bikes for about a 5-7 mile round trip and got to see some people in our community.   Summer time is great.  The temperature was about perfect.  I realized that not much has changed in 100years.  This was most likely pretty close to what people were doing in 1896 when Greeley was founded.

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There was one difference though.  I got a page on my cell phone from one of our Unix Admins.  Apparently one of the satilite  servers at work took a dump and we had to switch to a backup for SSH / HTTP.   I dont think that happened alot back then.

Here is a picture of me on my bike LOL:
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Living in the Caribbean

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Well we are looking into other properties in Puerto Rico since we think Awilda is going to try and sell the Lares Property to someone else without the proper title work.  We had asked her to call us back if anything had changed, but we haven’t heard anything. We figure that since we spent much of our time on the beaches that we should look to somewhere closer to Rincon.  We are looking at Aguada.  I think we can find something that has a few acres and we would still be close to all the ‘action’.

This NYT article lists PR as one of the more affordable places in the Caribbean to live.  We would like to be out there in 2 years or less.  Its a big goal for us.   I keep looking back to a picture we took on our last trip.  (mainly because its my desktop pic..lol) and it reminds me of our goal often.

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Its a good thing that spring/summer is here in Colorado though.  Its been really nice out and this weekend is rainy.  I love rainy days.  The mountains look beauitful and I am going to try and get up there quite a bit this year.

Mountains from I-25
A shot of the Rocky Mountains taken from the car while we were on I-25