Lucky, lucky, me.
I woke up this morning, not only to the normal cloudy skies that I've been seeing for weeks, but a thick blanket of fog lying on the ground. Normally, the humidity is way too low to get fog in the desert, but I think this is further proof that I'm actually in Seattle, Washington.
Somewhere on the road from Denver, I made a wrong turn and ended up in Seattle instead of Quartzsite. I'm not sure how or when it happened, but once I saw all the fog this morning, I finally had to admit that I was either in Seattle or the Gulf Coast, and since there are no mosquitoes, I can only assume I'm in Seattle.
Even though the weather is still kind of warm, mostly in the low 70s, high 60s, the clouds just won't give up. In the next six days, I'm looking at four days of mostly cloudy and two days of partly cloudy, neither of which is good for charging up batteries when you live on sunshine. It's reported that late next week, most of the clouds will be gone, not all, but most.... I'm looking forward to that, but will only believe it when I see it.
Since this is a desert, complete with Saguaro cacti that define the desert, lots of cloud cover does not translate into lots of rain. In fact, in the last month, even though it's been cloudy almost every day, there's been very little rain. And even when it does rain, I can just barely hear it dripping from the sky onto the roof of the camper, and it barely wets the ground if at all.... In other words, very much like rain in the Pacific Northwest, further proof that I'm somewhere in the area of Seattle, where saguaro have somehow adapted and learned to thrive.
Theboondork
A thick blanket of fog lies on the ground in what I had assumed was the desert.
My boondocking neighbors are barely visible across the street.
In a few hours the fog had burned off, but the clouds remained for the entire day.