This is the end.
Yes, I well and truly have been saved. Yesterday was the last day of high-90s temperatures, and the 10-day forecast calls for low 80s as far as the eye can see. Not only will the moderate temperatures save me, but it's also 10 days of partly cloudy weather, not enough to interfere with charging my batteries, but enough to offer some shade so the camper doesn't heat up as much. So it appears I have managed to survive the extremely hot desert temperatures that went on for weeks, while boondocking with no air conditioning.
So, how was it possible for an almost 80-year-old man to accomplish that? Was it a deep knowledge of the ways of the desert? An almost inhuman inner strength? Or possibly spending all day, every day hanging around inside the air-conditioned Safeway grocery store? No, it was something way simpler than that, something that has saved me many times in the past and I'm hoping will continue to do so in the future. It was nothing more and nothing less than the trifecta of human survival...... lack of ambition, stupidity, and being bone lazy.
If I had any ambition at all during this heat wave, I would've packed up and headed for the nearest cool place, which, in this case, was Flagstaff, Arizona, and hung around there until the problem was over.
If I weren't such a schmuck. I could've seen this heat wave coming way ahead of time and had several options to deal with it. Such as checking into an RV Park, so I had electricity for my air conditioner.
But being bone lazy and terminally apathetic, precluded me from doing anything useful other than just sitting here in a pool of sweat until Mother Nature decided to end it.... Or me.
Theboondork
When I woke up this morning the sun had just started to rise and it was behind so many clouds I thought it was the moon.
But it turned out to be an interesting sunrise.
Sunrise, showing my somewhat reliable old truck, carrying my heavy but teeny tiny home on its tired old back.