Day One
Greetings El Mirage!
Brad and I safely arrived in Arizona today, although Brad’s baggage did get lost somewhere along our travels. We didn’t waste any time once we rented our little cube of a rental car. No, literally. It’s shaped like a cube. There’s also a mysterious, fuzzy mat on the dashboard whose purpose we still haven’t quite figured out yet.
We were interviewed by Paul Atkinson of NPR’s KJZZ 91.5 AM station in Phoenix around 3:30 p.m. The actual interview will air sometime midweek, but here is a short teaser, including footage from our flipcam. In this clip Brad and Paul talk about what we expect to find here in El Mirage.
After the interview Paul took us to Chuy’s, a great restaurant with a fun atmosphere, to give us our first taste of Arizona’s food. I’m thankful that this time our hotel has a fitness room–I’m surely going to need it.
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Good job, guys. Yay for fitness rooms! Ours has treadmills and a pool and sauna. Add that to the gorgeous hiking, it’s going to be tough to get work in!
That fuzzy mat is to hold your fly fishing flies
I believe the fuzzy mat is to keep the dash from getting super hot in the furnace-like temps that exist here in the valley of the sun. I’ve lived in the valley for 2.5 years and I’ve actually had a roll of fuzzy–mat-material in the trunk waitin’ for a ‘rainy day’ when I can make such a cover for the dash of my super-stylish Ford Taurus…I’m still waiting for that rainy day.