elucidation enlightenment and clarification

hello readers, and sorry to have been so absent recently.

today (sep 30th when i wrote it) is drizzling rain and big dark clouds as i write this - we are staying at friends of bert’s, called jim and amy zieset - they have a plant band company in southern colorado, just outside of a town called salida - if you are like me you won’t have come across plant bands very often but it’s the cardboard square that goes around plants in nurseries, and you can plant them in them and then they disintegrate. jim is an engineer and designed and built all the machines that make these, we watched the machines whurr and buzz and spin around yesterday which was interesting. they supply plant bands to argentina, portugal, australia and new zealand as well. they also make tree wraps which you put around the trunks of new seedlings and vines that are growing in your fields. bert has gone to work today with jim on the machines as he likes that kind of thing, i warned him not to get his arm eaten off by an angry machine. jim is a long time hang gliding friend of bert’s, they used to run a business together at lake havasu which is in arizona, doing water gliding, which was where a boat towed the hang glider with bert (or other hang glider pilot) + passenger in it up to 2000feet and then they flew around for a bit then landed on the water. bert came up with the idea and jim did all the boat making for the operation. anyway, i am taking the drizzly day opportunity to get back on top of the blog and tidy up monty.

so, as an explanation of what is happening now, basically we are driving back south from montana to either belize or maybe just mexico, depending on certain factors. we are, as i said, currently in colorado, and heading out on sunday to new mexico to visit bert’s son timothy who lives in albuquerque. then up to california, and then south again. i have until november 14th until my US tourist visa turns into a pumpkin, but i think we’ll be able to fit everything in in that time frame.

below are more blog posts (8 of them, wow i just counted them) covering the last month’s activities from august 22nd - i know it’s really a lot of blog to read in one go which can detract from the enjoyment of reading it, so i have determined to write much more often and shorter from now on, providing i can make it to an internet connection. i will put more pictures in too now i’ve figured that out, so it’s more fun.

yours rather cold and winterily - and happy blog reading - lucia pepinillo x

ps you have to read it backwards, starting at blog post the grey ghost and going upwards from there.