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Northwest Pacific Trip 1/15/2020

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I have been back from Bali since November 5th 2019,  made one or two blog entries and got out of writing habit as I settled back in to Tucson routines and holiday madness which really wasn’t because missus and I were determined to keep it enjoyable low Key - mission accomplished, duties of a householder, reconnecting with friends and family and all things domestic which includes crazy wacko politics.  There, I spoke the P word - don’t get me started, so I won’t, but no guarantees! Two and a half months of homebodyness was maybe not a record, who’s counting, but here I sit at 36,000 ft. on an Alaska Airlines flight to Seattle as if time at home was but a dreamscape illusion already. A lifetime of travel familiarity and routines is already propelling me across time and space, in knots not light speed, yet again, but towards a winter storms landscape that Washitonians are wishing to flee towards where I am coming from and certainly very different from Bali. I am already flying over snow
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Tucson - Home On the Range

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It’s good to be home and settling in after a long journey via Taiwan and Los Angeles, a total of about 30 hours door to door, I think...with all the time zone changes and still somewhat fuzzy brain thats too lazy to pin it down exactly- best guess.  In any case, pretty remarkable how we can travel half way around the world in such a short period of time considering that a hundred years ago it could take weeks and several hundred years ago months or even years depending on what befell you in route. I arrived at our perfect time of year in the Sonoran Desert - the extreme heat over, milder daytime temperatures in the eighties but nights cooling into the fifties, mostly sunny and pleasant.  I won’t miss the heat and humidity of Bali although in time you adjust to that a little - still, not my preferred type of climate but makes me appreciate our Dry Heat in Arizona. 🥵 Soon, the Snowbirds arrive in Tucson, not the avian sort but what we call the winter visitors from the cold clim
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Bali Hello - Again

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I am home again in Tucson not even 24 hours and after posting what appeared to be my farewell address that I forgot to post the day I was leaving so posted earlier today, I realized there were still a number of events I intended to write about in the last few busy days there that I didn’t get to. So, I will continue with another post or two, as if I was still there, in the next day or two before my memory exits stage left. Writing some more will also give me a little more transition time to hold onto Bali before being totally consumed by the ongoing present at home and catching up here. This, in spite of teachings of being in the present by Suzuki Roshi in Zen Mind , Beginners Mind which, by the way will be republished for the 50th anniversary of its first release soon.  David is currently working on that with some updated corrections...... We return to last Monday November 4th, the day before my departure with what you know by now is pretty much same o same o beautiful paradise sunr
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