Sunday, March 16, 2008 - Canyon Trail RV Park, Boulder City NV
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Awaking to snow at White Spar Family Campground, Prescott AZ, March 16, 2008
Spring snow and rain in Arizona
This isn't the weather I traveled so far for this winter. I spent much of the day in and out of rain and, at the higher elevations near Prescott, snow, and temperatures colder than I really expected to find out here in the southwest. I finally left behind the families parked on the roadside having snowball fights about 50 miles east of Hoover Dam.
Night camp
Site 99 - Canyon Trail RV Park, Boulder City NV
- I don't remember if Verizon cell and EVDO service are available here but I assume so.
- Find other references to Canyon Trail RV Park
- Go to the Canyon Trail RV Park website
- List the nights I've camped here
- Check the weather
Skepticism is Helpful
If you want to notice things that seem wrong, you'll find a degree of skepticism helpful. I take it as an axiom that we're only achieving 1% of what we could. This helps counteract the rule that gets beaten into our heads as children: that things are the way they are because that is how things have to be. For example, everyone I've talked to while writing this essay felt the same about English classes-- that the whole process seemed pointless. But none of us had the balls at the time to hypothesize that it was, in fact, all a mistake. We all thought there was just something we weren't getting.
The Age of the Essay, Paul Graham, September 2004