FS is Back in Play

I made sure to give priority to FS yesterday. It makes me feel better -- aligned with MY concept of self (listened to a podcast with Elliot Aronson who used this term, can you tell?). Side note, I'm deeper diving into Elliot Aronson, a social psychologist -- podcasts, ordered a book. He's very interesting, 91 years old now -- his first mentor was Maslow. 

Started with a morning stroll for coffee, but instead of coffee I bought a reusable cup and filled it with infused water from the lobby.

New cup is water tight.
I'll use it in hiking packs.

Took a solo 5 mile walk ... explored ... noticed things.

Looks like feet.

Looks like a cowboy the way
the holes opened for the face.

Arizona sun is no joke and the air quality is bad. No monsoons this summer (from large volcano eruptions this year over the world) left a trapped valley of poor air and allergens. I felt it on the walk.

Next up shopping. The first stop, Carefree, AZ. Adorable, great shopping. We passed on 2 interesting lunch options (not my call) and headed to Cave Creek.

Cave Creek is a total tourist trap. Didn't find anything worth my interest. We ate at a restaurant my family had eaten at before but I have no idea why they wanted to go back. It was basically a SouthWest Apple Bees-like kind of place -- everything breaded and frozen so no modifications. Luckily, I had veggies for breakfast. Soup and cucumber salad for lunch at the restaurant -- not a bad choice, but it was just okay and cost me $30. I was bummed we had interesting, healthy, quality options less than 10 minutes away. This is when I'm a food snob.

Tourist trap.

Back to the resort. Hubby was still golfing for a couple more hours so I went to the pool to read.

Old title, but I never read it.
It's really good so far.
I enjoy a "family saga" story.

Pool ready.

That's a wrap on a FS day. The only miss was lunch. I guess this trip isn't about the food. I love eating out, but I'm picky about quality. I feel like HH and AZ were (are) struggles to find decent options and it's frustrating to pay a lot of money for basically tourist junk food. Back-to-back mostly lousy vacation food. Geez.

Working on FS for today too. We have another hike, a couple of hours at the pool and then meeting for an early dinner. This restaurant choice looks better - fingers crossed. I'm excited for today and, honestly, excited to be nearing the end of the trip. I want to go home to my dogs.

Later gators.