Missing the lights

I enjoy the lack of infrastructure here--mostly bare rock, sand, scrub. But this time of year it is strange not to have the world lit up a bit more. Few Christmas lights, few houses and no downtown drenched in white lights. Not so much hustle and bustle and sensory overload. Maybe the stars and the Milky Way are the west's equivalent of lights...

Tuba City

An interesting day in Tuba City, AZ. Dinosaur tracks (fun, and lovely weather in the 50s), a nice espresso shop/internet cafe (surprising) and abandoned buildings. The abandoned buildings were made out of pretty local stone, but with the bare trees and boarded up windows, it was spooky. Large complexes for the medical center and schools here. Culture shock in the grocery store/local hang out. Good to get out of town and shake things up a bit!