wispfox

So... I kind of forgot that pasta isn't really me food, as I end up thoroughly unsatisfied and out of sorts within a couple hours.

Also, I'd been not noticing/ignoring signals to add electrolytes to my water (mainly, that water is boring and I don't want it even when sweating and/or thirsty).

This combines v poorly with my phone's insistance that I had full signal - and indeed was able to do things online - while apparently refusing metahacker's texts & calls, during a time we had specifically going to have a call. I could maybe, y'know, have tried calling him before we were both frustrated and upset about the lack of communication. Didn't occur to me. And it has been true before - when low signal was a visible issue - that I could call him fine.

Got to my campsite, and upon being confronted with yet another place where I would be setting up camp only to tear it down in the morning, that I nearly refused to set it up. I didn't go try to find a hotel bc I had already paid (& overpaid due to lack of change) for my camp, and hunting for a hotel would also be effort. But I hate being drenched with dried sweat! (this is much of why I failed to camp in New Mexico, in addition to the fact that I got in the habit of finding amazingly cheap hotels) And the bugs are bugging me! And there's annoying & loud people who I suspect are camping near me.

I should probably have hunted for a free place to camp, but see grumpy & out of sorts for food and electrolytes and phone reasons. And I'd already found this place.

I'm also grumpy/out of sorts bc I will probably be going over budget for the road trip portion of my trip. Likely due to excessive hotel use & various souveniers. (I don't regret souveniers or things I did that I am unlikely to do again, even though they contribute a lot to the cost of this trip) But still, grumpy. Esp since there's still more to this after the southwest!

(yes, I probably should have expected over budget; it's wicked hard to budget for a complete unknown!)

Wow. Complainy today! Not good sleep last night, and iPhoto may have eaten my photos from yesterday in Sunset Crater & that other nearby monument, as well as the arborium.

To be way more positive, I watched a couple adorable bear cubs and three wolf cubs at Bearizona. :)