Best Of
Re: Rock My Ride
I think I want to retire in this general area around Sedona. Close enough to a grocery store but once you go out a few miles you just get all kinds of versions of this.
Arizona seems like a healthy state. Where I live, almost everyone is fat, especially as people get older. I can’t really think of any old people I know back home who don’t have some form of potbelly. Down here that’s not very common. I wonder if it’s the heat? I’m personally not hungry when I’m hot. It might also be the Mexican food being so dominant, compared to the garbage we call American food. I can’t imagine going to a chain burger restaurant if there’s a street taco place right next door that’s going to be the same price and come out of the kitchen just as quickly.
The Grand Canyon is massive. I know that sounds obvious, but it’s kind of profound when you’re just sitting there looking at it. It’s really hard to feel any sort of self importance when you’re there. I felt like an ant in a sense, but in a good way. I don’t really know how to describe it with words.
I’m camped for the night in Tuba City, AZ just inside Navajo Nation. This hotel I’m at, Navajoland Hotel, is actually very nice. 
I would have stayed here anyway though. I think one of the best ways to help disenfranchised communities is to voluntarily spend your money on their businesses, instead of giving it to McDonalds or Amazon. If someone is making an effort to earn their own money, and leave a nest egg for their children for the first time in hundreds of years, then I want to help those people. If someone wants a nest egg without working for it, that’s a different conversation. I try to avoid being a hypocrite when I can, so if I’m going to say that someone doesn’t deserve something, I feel that I also need to try to help out the people who do. The dollar is the ultimate step stool in life. How I spend my dollars is much more important than who I vote for, and if people are making an effort to earn those dollars, then I’m happy to give them to those people, instead of some soulless corporation that won’t even end up paying any taxes. That’s my take on it at least.
