Today is Carol's 70th birthday, which we and her family celebrated early during the Dorey family reunion in Tyler. In a way, that made today a bit anticlimactic for her, but our wishes are as warm as ever that she'll have a great year and a great decade.
We got an early start from Benson this morning and arrived at Usery Mountain Recreation Area in Mesa, AZ, by lunchtime. Fortunately, the campground was not very full, so we had our choice of spots. The two previous times we've been here were earlier in the year, and we've had to wait in the overflow parking lot overnight both times.
We picked site 21, a large site with a concrete patio and extra picnic tables, apparently because it was used by the birding experts who stay here during the season. Plenty of birds made their appearance, including some small dark red headed ones I haven't been able to identify.
We called Jan and made arrangements to see her tomorrow after our visit to the Old Town Farmers Market in Scottsdale in the morning.
Sadly, we watched the final broadcast of Bill Moyers Journal tonight. One of his guests was Jim Hightower, who articulated our outrage at the takeover of our democracy by big corporations. He talked about the successes of populist movements in the past. I hope that people can take back our government from special interests.
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