Despite the heat, I appear to still be alive.
Is there some hope at last? Is there a light at the end of the tunnel? Is my survival in sight? It appears these and many other questions will remain unanswered until next week, when the temperatures are supposed to dip below roasting and more like simmering.
It's not necessarily the high temperatures that are getting to me; It's how long they've lasted that's the big problem. I've dealt with hundred-degree temperatures before, but it was only for a day or three, not weeks. Also, this high temperature problem is more likely to occur in Colorado during the summer, where I have my family's air-conditioned house I can go into if need be, I have an air conditioner in the camper, and I can plug into their garage, or I can take a mini-vacation up into the mountains, where it's 75°, because normally these kind of temperatures don't last that long.
It's kind of odd that I just came through a winter when Arizona was so cloudy, and so chilly for weeks that I couldn't get my batteries charged up because I was running the furnace so much. And now it's hot for endless days, so it's hard to stay cool. The Arizona desert has never challenged me to such a degree before.
So what am I going to do about it? ......
So far, just by virtue of not doing anything, I appear to be in a sticking-it-out mode, at least for now. I've got the camper set up to capture as little heat as possible, but there's only so much you can do with an inexpensive truck camper that pretends to have enough insulation but snickers quietly behind your back when the ceiling is too hot to touch.
I'm in no way as tough as the old-time desert rats that preceded me into this desert, and they had to live and work in far tougher conditions than I have to as a retiree. But I have to admit it is more difficult for someone like me, who's only six months away from my 80th birthday. Old folks don't adapt as well, or as quickly, as younger people.
But I'm slowly becoming acclimatized to the heat, and that was the big secret that saved the old-timers,...... they simply got used to it, as will I.
Theboondork
Sunrise?
My teeny tiny home, and my semi-reliable truck that totes it around.
A quiet, peaceful sunset.