There’s a Bear in my room! ✈😍🐻

After already hitting 100º by noon, Phoenix reminded me of how un-acclimated I had become. Even with my sunglasses, it was so bright all day that I got a headache. The squinting is not only bad for wrinkles, but for tension in the forehead muscles.

Check out was at noon, so I had to venture out into my favorite big city and kill time until Paul’s plane landed tonight. Not much more to say…I wandered two Targets, a TJ Maxx, a DSW, a Kohl’s, and had an amazing omelette at my favorite NY-style deli!😋

We’re all checked into our home for the next three days, a Candlewood Inn, with an amazingly equipped kitchen, even for an extended stay place. 🤔 Aspirin has been taken and the lights are going off. 🛏

Useless fact of the day: Our hotel is on Baseline Avenue, so named because when Phoenix was being settled and mapped out, this road was the center (or baseline). 📐📏

Useful fact of the day: All of the numbered, north-south running roads in Phoenix start low in the middle and get higher as they go out. Streets go towards the east, Avenues towards the west. (< ave. 4 3 2 1 / 1 2 3 4 st. >) 🛣