I keep my eyes open for travel oddities. Two of them occurred in Tucson during the week of St. Patrick’s Day.
While walking down the hallway from my room I spotted housekeepers cleaning through an open door to another room. The Residence Inn guest in this particular room evidently had the holiday spirit by the prominent presence of something green. I am not talking about green figures of leprechauns or shamrocks. No, I am talking about the Christmas spirit, as revealed by a four foot Christmas tree perched on a coffee table. On March 17. In a resort guest room.
I mainly exercised in the air conditioned fitness center to avoid the desert heat. The exception was the laps I ran around a kidney shaped pool, 3-5 feet in depth. For a good twenty minutes I “ran” through the water, switching to a breast stroke for about eight feet along the “deep” end.
The only other person in the pool area sunbathed during my laps. I imagined I appeared quite odd to him. How many people run countless laps around a small pool at a resort? When the sunbather got up to enter the pool I offered to leave but he encouraged me to stay.
I put my schmoozing skills back to work and we engaged in conversation. My new friend was a pilot from Germany attending a training center in Tucson. He married late, waiting until he could make family his first priority. His work now calls him away one week a month, but he focuses on family and home improvement projects for the other three weeks.
Meeting my German friend gave me even more incentive to meet people while giving presentations combining readings and music. Unfortunately, my acquisition of a car now needs to be put on hold. Our son Noah’s car has gone kaput and I need to divert those savings as a loan to help him out. The importance of wrapping up his undergraduate studies as a premed surpasses my needs for now.
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