Christmas is over and we hope all had a very Merry Christmas and will have a happy and safe New Years celebration.

Not a lot going on here in Arizona. A bit cool at night but warms up nicely as soon as the sun comes up.

Today we took a ride on the Light Rail. It runs from Tempe all the way to the north west side of Phoenix, probably some 40 miles or so. It is propelled by two power units that are located between the three cars with a drivers position at both ends. When they get to the end of the line the driver pulls down the shades and goes to the other end for the trip back across town.

We rode to the end of the line, got off, had lunch and got back on and came back to where we started, got in the van and drove home.

They are planning on continuing it on to the east side of Mesa in the near future, so it will go a few miles farther to the east.

Shortly after we got on an old fellow got on with a back pack and an arm load of files and papers. Promptly sat down, cross legged, and proceeded to drop a bunch of papers on the floor. He picked them up and just stuffed them in a folder and proceeded to shuffle through all kinds of papers, all in disarray and shove them in somewhere else.


He proceeded to open up the backpack take out a set of headphones and hook them up to some device and seemed to talk into it as if making notes or something. He loosened his tie, rolled up his shirt sleeves and continued to shuffle papers from one place to another all the way to the ASU campus stop. He grabbed everything up and got off the train, and proceeded to roll down his sleeves, adjust his tie and pull up his pants and walk off.

We finally decided that maybe he was a Professor at the university. He appeared to be a very unorganized individual.

People were getting on with bicycles, baby carriages and all sorts of things. No one seemed to have a ticket and no one was checking for them, only the driver appeared to be an employee. People just seemed to come and go when ever it stopped.

An interesting day with quite a variety of individuals encountered.