Minor Update and side note...

Well, I really intended to post more frequently, but it seems that I haven't been on the road that much so I'll just say that I'll post more when I can...

I've been in Prescott Valley, AZ for quite a while now helping my friend Felicia get settled into her new apartment.  In a nutshell, this has taken a lot longer than anticipated.  Her moving date had been postponed for weeks due to issues with the apartment, but we finally got her her stuff moved in the end of last week even though there were still a few loose ends that needed to be taken care of by the apartment owners.  So most of my time here has been spent overseeing these tasks during the day so Felicia didn't have to take off from work, which would have been a big deal for her since she just started the job.  Anyway, I don't know what the future holds, or how often I will be posting, I just have to take things as they come.

An interesting side note...

A friend of mine named Wade, who I met while camping in Quartzite, contacted me the other day.  He sent me the picture (below) of his new hitchhiker.  Wade also lives in a van but he also has a tent that he uses as his kitchen/storage area, like a lot of nomads do.  He has been stationary for several weeks now but was packing up to leave when he discovered his new friend.  I asked him if he was going to keep the hitchhiker as a pet, to which he responded that he thought the hitchhiker was cool but it wasn't very amenable to the idea, so he gave the hitchhiker his/her wish and moved it to a nearby rock.

I did take a few minutes to find out more about this critter.  The tarantula is not as toxic and dangerous as many believe, at least the American species, some African species can be quite deadly but this one not so much.  If a tarantula rises up, or hisses (yes they can give a hissing sound as a warning), or shows it's fangs, then you probably have it cornered with no place to escape, because they're more inclined to seek an escape route rather than to stand their ground or bite you.  Even if you are bitten, unless you have a preexisting allergy to specific proteins that are in the venom, it usually is no more painful or harmful than the sting of a wasp.

So with that I bid you farewell until the next post!  Thanks for coming along...