Space

The final frontier. These are the voyages of the... uh, wait a minute. Nope, this isn't a Star Trek post and I'm not about to go on about the Starship Enterprise, although aliens were the reason that triggered the thought. I was in Las Vegas this morning (where I spent the night, arriving the previous evening after a four hour ride from Flagstaff, AZ), and there's no escaping the geography on my ride home to Northern California.

Nellis Air Force Base. The Nevada Test Site. Area 51. See? Aliens! Hence, the association with outer space, as in "visitors from"... and what happens here also stays here.

The celestial objects in space can be viewed through telescopes from the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Or, thanks to the Dark Skies project you can peruse the heavens with naked eyes.

There's the vast expanse of desert that makes for wide open spaces and was pretty hard to ignore, since riding motorcycles requires concentration and I was without any music under the helmet. Save for what tunes rolled around in that ol' grey matter occupying the space between the ears of course.

We now come to cyberspace, which I had abandoned when I went on vacation. Left all internet-capable devices at home. No websurfing, no email, and none to be had at my friend's house.

Just thought I'd ramble a bit and take up some precious blog space, plus my chance to announce that:

I'm baaack!