Productive day off!

We took a day off the bike yesterday in Quartzite, AZ - Gem Mecca. For Jan.-March. Quartzite swells to house over 1 million RVs of gem hounds and snow birds. But in April it is a ghost town of empty RV parks. And that's where we camped for the last two nights, on the Desert Gardens RV Park horse shoe court (the only place that had been cleared of tent ground sheet eating stones). We also had access to the bingo hall/showers/library/landromat and with wifi it was the perfect place for a productive day off.

New pictures and gps tracks have been uploaded ... but Leone is on her own adventure for the next few weeks, so the nice little details that she has been taking care of for us (sub-dividing slide shows by date and many other "little" details) are missing.

We have limited computer power with us but we can update the blog, check email, and I've also been trying to keep up with my students in Madison. They have been super productive, publishing papers and I also just heard the newest lab member received a 3 year NSF grant! I am very proud of the students in my lab group!