How did she actually do that?

We've had quite enough personal posts...whew, I'm definitely putting my feet up. Now that I've returned to the internet, now to make sure all the providers of things I need/enjoy know where I am.

So here's a post I prepared a while back. Just something I find quite interesting!

 Maria Popova writes about Marie Tharp and her work mapping the oceans floors.

This essay came from the recently published book Traversal, by the same author.

Marie Tharp at work. (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.)

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. -Robert Neelly Bellah, sociologist and author (1927-2013)

Yes, I know this post doesn’t have any of my personal life news in it. Just wait. I’ll be back soon!

One shot

 

First light, first morning in new apt. IPhone messes with the lighting, so it lookslikedaylight. Sigh.

Don’t have internet yet, and hotspot with the iPhone is slow tonight. So I’ll leave this as my contribution. 

I have a fever again…wish I knew what was going on. But health insurance is not transferring automatically as several agents said…so I’m postponing several visits that I’d scheduled. We’ll see if I can even get coverage by August.

Tomorrow he internet should be on!

My daughter-in-law spent 5 hours Tuesday unpacking and organizing the kitchen, then carting all the boxes and bubble wrap to the garbage downstairs. Some she took to a recycling center nearby.

See ya!

Cortez to Durango July 27, 2026

 

Tai in his backyard overlooking the little canyon.

I drove car behind the truck full of stuff…between Cortez and Durango.

Filled out forms, and brought first furniture in from U-Haul

My super son, he did most of the lifting, carrying and stacking…what a guy!

He did have 2 friends chip in to help. I gave them some lunch money.

Feeling very grateful. I found the two boxes out of twenty which had the espresso machine and the coffee.  

My hand is on the handle of the little cart which I’ve had for 20 years, and it’s taken pottery and now breathing equipment from place to place. We’re in our new home!

Elevated me! and travel pics #1

 Remember (if you've read my blog in the last month or so) my attempt to go to higher elevations to start acclimating myself to my move to Colorado?

Well, I've moved. And for the last 3 days I've been breathing air over a mile in elevation...and  using lots of oxygen to help. It's not quite doing the job. I am tired, and very sluggish, and get out of breath doing the least little thing.

Cortez, where I'm currently sitting at my son's home, is elevation of 6,181 feet. The fact that it's 93 degrees out keeps me in the house. 

Tomorrow morning we drive the rest of my stuff to Durango, which is at 6512 feet. I feel really bad that I can't help load and unload just the needs for each night. But this old body I'm living in is demanding breathing equipment.

Eventually we'll get the U-Haul unloaded (today when you read this) and take the truck back. And my son and his friend will drive back to Cortez and leave me in my new apartment with the hoard of boxes! And don't forget tupperware tubs!

But at the last minutes there was room for the little twin bed, which needs replacing, but provides me a place to put my pillow. And the old rocker wasn't quite ready for the trash heap. After all, there's a personal connection between us survivors from the 70s!

So you came for the travel pics, didn't you?

Saturday we left Santa Rosa, after a delightful breakfast. Then across New Mexico through Albuquerque.

 My first sighting of a train!

I loved seeing rocks that looked just like lava.

Jaba the Hutt for Star  Wars fans.