Back in Paradise

The Commander and Lord Kadizzle made it back to the homeland. The Commander got her three special bottles of rum into the country unmolested.  After spending the night in a hotel near the airport in Phoenix we worked our way to what is now our home, Lake Roosevelt.  In Globe we stopped for groceries.  The highlight of the stop in Globe was the strangest creature in the grocery store.  As Kadizzle wandered around the store he noticed the strangest person, or it might have been an alien,  staring at some goods.  Whatever it was it seemed to be male, but had on a dress.  Actually it appeared to have one dress over another dress.  The creature appeared as though the head had been dried a little then squeezed together.  It was tall and topped off with a large bright blue baseball cap.  The eyes were too big for the head and bulged out.  Kadizzle rushed to tell The Commander about his find.  The Commander was shopping in another part of the store.  Kadizzle thought perhaps he could sneak a picture, but it just did not work.  Later Kadizzle saw the mate of the creature.  The mate was not nearly as bizarre.  Somewhere in the desert there must still be a hippie compound that has to send representatives to town.  That is the only explanation for this sighting.

After leaving Globe we headed west.  Finally we crested the hill and the expansive view of our chunk of the world opened in front of us.  Free at last, free at last.  In front of us was unmolested planet Earth in every direction with splendid mountains.  Not a single slum shack to be found for hundreds of miles, no streets full of filth and pointless cars going in pointless circles. The desert and desert mountains never looked so good.  Finally to escape the mess humans have made was like having the gravity knob turned down to the point where you felt twenty five pounds lighter.

Belize was a fun trip, but the third world poverty ground poor old Kadizzle down.  Humanities ability to have so much and use it so poorly never ceases to disturb Kadizzle.  When you don't see it, you don't have to think about it.  Now back in our little Earth Module it is just The Commander and Kadizzle starring at the lake with a drink in our hand saying thankya Jesus we are back in a tranquil spot.