Final Stats

9 months
17, 500 Miles on Toyota
3000 miles on Skoda Roomster
15 train rides in France and Spain
8 bus rides in Spain
39 States Visited
4 European Countries
10 Bags of Cheese Flavored Popcorn
1 Set of Tires
1 Set of Brakes
1 Fat Lip
6 nights of camping in the rain
20 pounds of pasta eaten
40 bottles of wine consumed
50 chocolate croissants eaten
100 miles of driving out of our way
1 bout of the flu
6 modes of transportation
Zero Speeding Tickets
No Fights

An Experience of a Lifetime-Priceless

Roby and Patti's Radical Sabbatical

Roby and I have decided to live "lightly". Come along for the journey through our trials and tribulations. This blog is posted with the most current adventure first. So, scroll to the bottom if you want to start from the beginning. Each entry has a continuous slideshow of photos for your viewing pleasure. If you double click on the photos it will take you to our photo web page and you are able to see enlarged versions. We welcome comments and any building tricks.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Still in Phoenix

Well we had good intentions to get out of Phoenix on the 15th but as the story goes. . . .  we are still in Phoenix and will be here until Thursday.  My motorcycle did not arrive when it was supposed to so we have to wait a few more days.  It is teaching us to be flexible and in doing that we have changed our calendar a bit.  third time is a charm though and we like this route even better.

The time in Phoenix has been incredible but we need to hit the road because we are blowing our budget.  I have everything set up in Mint.com (which by the way is an excellent free website to track your budget and expenses and investments) and I continually get alerts that we have blown our "meals" "cash withdrawal" budgets for the month of March and we are only half way through the month.  Definitely a lot of peanut butter and jelly going forward.  It is $3 burger night tonight at Mazee's so we might be okay.  

While in Phoenix we got lucky and got to attend the "build it green" conference at the convention center and attended a lecture on Paolo Soleri who built "Arcosanti" and was a pupil of Frank Lloyd Wright.  Incredible architect and artist.  If ever in Phoenix make it a priority to go see Arcosanti.  The first true sustainable community.

We bought a new tent and camp stove for the trip along with a bike rack off of Craig's list.  Next is trying to find Roby a new travelling guitar.  We have to get him playing so we are able to earn some money on this trip.

This past weekend was our good friend Kathy's 50th birthday and we were so glad we were delayed to be able to go and celebrate with her.  John, her husband did it 1st class.  We all went out in a limo and had dinner at Lon's at the Hermosa Inn (another great restuarant-put it on your list) and then drinks at the Sanctuary(again, put it on your list)  I feel like I am on the Travel Channel.  In all a great evening-with remnants in the morning unfortunately!!!

We have a few more days in Phoenix and we are hoping to get in a spring training game for the Indians and then hit the road.


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