Nelson

So you already know that we spent Sunday afternoon at Rawhide, which was totally fun. Other than going out for lunch with Mick and Ligaya on Monday before they left to go home, our lives have slowed down again. Back to the everyday life thing. That's not bad by any means, but it does mean that we're finding ourselves in the RV a lot more lately.

I've been working on some promotional pieces for my business -- brochures mostly -- talking about some of the services I offer, especially the ones that I really want to do (media relations training, and event planning and management). I've pitched my media relations training courses to the Pac-10, to the Greek Olympic Team, and to Auburn University's athletic department. No confirmations yet, but there's reason to hope that some of them will come through. We'll see.

As we've mentioned, we're working on planning the next leg of our journey . . . which will take us to see more parts of the Southwest, which we're both really looking forward to.

Last Saturday, we not only made it to Cracker Barrel for dinner, but we also went to downtown Chandler for the Wine & Jazz Festival that we'd referred to on a past post . . . and we'd questioned whether or not there really was an event scheduled. It turned out there was, but it was a marketing gig at a small winery in Old Town Chandler . . . which turned out to be really cute. We were disappointed, though, because the music sounded good, but they wanted people to pay 10 bucks to get in, then buy stuff in the gift shop and buy food. So instead, we just walked around Old Town. It really was neat. It was our favorite of the "Old Towns" that we'd visited down here. We even found a locally-owned little Mexican restaurant where we had chips & salsa, sopapillas, and a couple of beers to take in the atmosphere.

Anyway . . . right now, we're taking a break from work and off to do more laundry. And run a few errands. We'll check in with you all again later.