Tucson, still
On Monday, December 17, MAN-Bresse,
France, sent two e-mails to UPS,
Louisville, KY, to develop the US- customs
form. The end of the day finished without
return from UPS and additional information
on the UPS tracking website.
On Tuesday in the early morning the UPS
site announced that the plane from
Louisville had been delayed for technical
reasons, then indicated that the parcel
had arrived at Phoenix, AZ, in the late
morning.
On Wednesday, the parcel was delivered by
UPS at 10:09, local time. The shop foreman
and the mechanic opened it and made the
inventory of the parts. Work started. For
me it was the critical phase. I hoped that
they have necessary competence to carry
out the assembly… and that there would be
no detrimental consequences later on.
On Thursday around 16:00 we carried out the
road tests. All seemed Ok. I crossed my
fingers for the future, MAN workshop in
Querétaro, Mexico, was still faraway. I
decided to remain until Saturday morning at
the hotel to put my truck in functioning
order after 16 days of stop.
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| Butée d'embrayage, release bearing |
On Friday morning I took delivery of my
truck around 9:30 a.m. with which I drive
during around 30km. All seemed Ok, to
follow. The day passed quickly in
arrangements. It is always difficult to
leave after a long stay.
I left Windermere Hotel the late morning
to take again the road where I had left it
on December 5th heading to Mission San
Xavier del Bac at less than 15 km. The
mission date back to 1692. The church is
in the Spanish baroque style with
polychrome wood sculptures. The day was
warm and sunny. I wished to bivouac on the
spot. The person contacted at the Mission
advised me to go to see the police what I
did. While walking on I met a car of
patrol, I presented my request to the
policeman who accepted it with a great
smile.
Phoenix
Heard Museum
On the way towards Phoenix I was passed by
a Jeep which signaled to me to stop I
recognized that one of Steve, met for the
second time at St Davis at my bivouac. He
introduced his French wife. We discussed
at the edge of Hwy under the sun but with
a very cold wind. They indicated a
recently open museum the Musical
Instrument Museum, MIM. I promised to them
to visit it. While arriving at Phoenix I
threw my reserved on Heard Museum which is
according to Lonely Planet “… one of the
best Native American museum in the entire
world…” He is it de facto. Its collections
are of a great wealth, I give a short
outline of it. In the late afternoon I
moved towards the MIM at about thirty
kilometers further northwards. I
bivouacked on the spot.
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| Rain God, 1890 |
Owl, night guard 1800 |
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| Katsina Dolls, cultural
& religious belief of Hopi |
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| Hohokam human figurines, AD 900 |
The Future by Allan Houser, Chiricahua |
