FUN-travel: Driving the good ole US of A! Flagstaff to home
June 10, 2014 by Susan Clarke · Comments Off on FUN-travel: Driving the good ole US of A! Flagstaff to home
Day 6 – Flagstaff, AZ
- Meet our grandson for lunch and tour NAU – he’s in 1st year
- Go to Walnut Canyon – too windy & cold to go over to cliff dwellings
- 6:30 – dinner
FUN-food – Delhi Palace – in strip mall but nice inside – great wine list – lamb vindaloo & lentil makhani – $81
Sedona, AZ
Day 7 – drive 335 – Henderson, NV via Sedona, AZ
- Supposed to go to Grand Canyon but too cold
- Drive to Sedona instead
- Brunch stop – Desert Flour Bakery – VG $15
- 4:00 – arrive & spend time with son Mike
- 6:30 – dinner
FUN- food – Anthony’s in M Resort – Martini, nice wine, scallops, sea bass, caprese – YUMMY $$$$
Day 8 – drive 329
- 8:00 – hit the road
- 3:00 – HOME SWEET HOME!
Trip FUN-fact – We are going to go back to Sedona for 2 nights, Flagstaff for 2 nights and then on to the Grand Canyon when the weather is a lot warmer – like May of 2015!
More Sedona Red Rock
FUN-travel: Driving the good ole US of A! Tucumcari, NM to Flagstaff, AZ
June 10, 2014 by Susan Clarke · Comments Off on FUN-travel: Driving the good ole US of A! Tucumcari, NM to Flagstaff, AZ
Day 4 – drive 474 miles – Tucumcari, NM – Pop. 5363
U Drop Inn
- Had a great speech @ NACUFS Southern Region Conference
- 12:00 – hit the road
- 12:30 – lunch stop
FUN- food – Cowboy Travel Plaza for the best BBQ lunch! The place was packed and the service was great. It’s basically a truck stop with a big store and restaurant. Rotisserie chicken sandwich, bbq beef sandwich, 2 sodas $20.
- Shamrock, Tx stop – photo op U Drop Inn
- 6:00 – arrive Tucumcari, NM
- Holiday Inn & La Quinta behind the McDonald’s
- Stay at La Quinta – newer hotel
- 7:30 – dinner @ K Bob’s across parking lot – nice salad bar & drinkable wine
FUN-fact – Many of the scenes in the television show Rawhide (1959–1966) starring Clint Eastwood were shot in the Tucumcari area.
Day 5 – drive 496 – Flagstaff, AZ – Pop. 67,468
- 8:00 – hit the road after McCafe coffee w/espresso shot
- 1:00 – Gallup, NM – more great art deco on Route 66 – Hotel El Rancho
- 3:00 – arrive Flagstaff
- 6:00 – meet long time friends for happy hour @Rendezvous Martini bar
- Dinner – PaTo Thai next door
- Starts snowing
FUN-fact – Had enough points to stay 2 nights for free.
Not so FF – La Quinta in Flagstaff is old and tired.
El Rancho
WOW Word-Of-the-Week #513: Advice
June 4, 2014 by Susan Clarke · Comments Off on WOW Word-Of-the-Week #513: Advice
Advice – an opinion or recommendation on what could or should happen.
Is there someone in your life that has given you good advice? If you could go back 10 years, what advice would you give that you have learned? How receptive are you to taking someone’s advice?
I found another great follow up to for last week’s WOW on investment by Jonathan Clements in the Wall Street Journal Sunday titled, “Some Life Advice for the Class of 2014.” His son Henry graduated from Washington University and he had 7 good points of “parental wisdom” advice to give him. Today I will share the first two.
- If you aren’t careful, you will spend your life pursing goals that you think will make you endlessly happy, but in fact, will give the most fleeting of pleasures. You’ll hunger after the next promotion and pay raise. But a few months later, it’ll be just another paycheck. You’ll lust after the bigger house and new car. But after six months, the house will be just a place to live and the car will be just a way to get around town.
At issue here is a phenomenon known as the hedonic treadmill. We pursue these goals, sure that they’ll bring us great happiness. But instead, we quickly become dissatisfied and start hankering after something else.
- You could live an extraordinarily long time. In 2000, the median U.S. life expectancy at birth was 77 years, up from 47 for those born a century earlier. Moreover, as you age, your life expectancy rises, which means today’s 65-year-olds can expect to live to their mid-80’s. The upshot: You’re part of a vast experiment, where we have millions of people not only spending unprecedented lengths of time in the workforce, but also an unprecedented number of years in retirement.
I have heard that the only person who wants to hear advice is the one giving it. I tend to be more receptive when people ask if I want their advice. How about you?
This week focus is on giving and receiving advice. Do you think your parents gave you good advice? Do you often give your opinion about what could or should be done? How does it make you feel when someone makes a recommendation about what you could or should do? Would you like to share Clements advice with your own children or grand-children?
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