Sunday September 24th 2017

When I got up this morning it was 55 degrees in the motorhome. It was afternoon before the temperature got above 70. The high for the day was only around 75 degrees, and there wasn’t much wind at all. Overall, it was a great weather day.

I stumbled on the Patriots vs. Texans football game on TV this morning at 10am. For a guy that lived the first sixty years of life in the Eastern Time Zone, spending so much time on the west coast is confusing sometimes. As a child of the television age I am used to having it on all the time and to a certain extent depending on it for knowing the time of day. Here on the west coast live events occurring when they do continue to surprise me.

This is the first Patriots game I’ve been able to see this year. I was without access to an NBC affiliate for the season kickoff game and last week the local Arizona Cardinals got the focus. The Texans and their rookie Quarterback, Deshaun Watson, was more than the Patriots were prepared to handle for much of the game. In the end Tom Brady completed one of his patented LMD (Last Minute Drives). Go Pats!

This seemed to be the day for late game heroics. After the Patriots game I switched to the Giants vs. Eagles game. That one ended with a 61 yard field goal by the Eagles as time expired to win the game. The next game I caught was the Cincinnati vs. Green Bay game. It ended in overtime with a Green Bay field goal after Arron Rodgers got them to overtime with his own LMD.

I really enjoyed a day of watching football. In between games I got out for another short hike. I went to another area of Verde River access. This area contained a side channel of the main river that is blocked at this time of year forming a murky pond. The trail descends the cliffs along the river bank to an area along the side of the water. Signs warn that the area is susceptible to flash floods and may be flooded at high water times of the year.

Murky water in this captured part of the Verde River

Steep cliffs line the shore.

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