416 miles; 6 hours 47 minutes.
After the flatlands I have been through, the rock formations at this rest stop are pretty cool:
Arizona does not observe Day-Light Savings Time (they say they have enough daylight, and don't really need to "save" any). As a result, they are on Mountain Time for 6 months, then West Coast Time for the rest - right now, it is West Coast Time, so I set my clocks back again when I crossed the state line. It was hot in Tucson, and hit 100º at 11:43 AM (yes, I am using the air conditioning!).
On my trip last fall, at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art (Indianapolis, IN), I saw a beautiful painting by Santa Fe, New Mexico contemporary artist P.A. Nisbet - "Beneath the Blue Moon Bench", 2012. I checked out his website etc, and found that his works are sold by the Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery (Tucson, AZ), so I stopped by and had a very nice chat with Jerry Freund, who showed me some of Peter's work - Cañon Del Sol
a lovely piece, but at $64,000, a bit out of my price range.
Jerry told me about one of Peter's major paintings that is at the Tucson Museum of Art (Sovereign Sky), so I stopped there after the University of Arizona Museum of Art, but the Nisbet was not on display.
Although the Univ of Arizona Museum of Art did not have the Morans or the Turner or the Whittredge I was hoping to see, they had a good Jackson Pollock - November 20, 1950, 1950:
and an excellent work by Giovanni Paolo Panini - A Capriccio of Classical Ruins, c. 1750:
100 miles up the road to the Arizona State University Art Museum (Tempe, AZ), which has a very nice American Collection. Highlights include:
Childe Hassam - Laurel in the Ledges, 1906
Winslow Homer - Corn Husking, 1874
The Phoenix Art Museum was the highpoint of today's trip - (only a few) highlights include
Thomas Moran - Zoroaster Temple at Sunset, 1916
Sanford Robinson Gifford - Evening Shower, 1862
Thomas Hill - El Capitan and Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite Valley, not dated
A stunning painting by an artist I do not know
Hamilton Hamilton - Trout Lake, Colorado, 1879
I am surprised how well Maxfield Parrish's style fits-in with the raw craggy mountains I have seen.
Maxfield Parrish - Arizona, 1950
In Phoenix, the temperature peaked at 109º at 3:03 PM ("but it's a dry heat"), and didn't start going down until 5:13.
Another stunning Arizona Sunset!
People get to the Super 8 in Wickenburg, Arizona by all sorts of vehicles
Actually drove 436 miles today - Thank You GOD for a great adventure day!
Music today was still songs starting with "I": 96 songs, starting with
I Don't Worry About A Thing 1962 Mose Allison Allison Wonderland: Anthology
and ending with
I Just Want To Make Love To You (Live) 1974 Van Morrison It's Too Late To Stop Now (live)
The list can be accessed here
Highlights include:
I Feel Fine 1964 The Beatles Past Masters, Vol. 1
I Feel Free 1966 Cream Fresh Cream
10 versions of "I Get A Kick Out Of You":
Dave Brubeck Ken Burns Jazz: Dave Brubeck
Dinah Washington The Essential Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington The Very Best of Cole Porter
Felix Slatkin Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 3: Space Capades
Frank Sinatra Classic Sinatra
Frank Sinatra Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years
Frank Sinatra Songs For Young Lovers
Frank Sinatra '57 In Concert
Jamie Cullum Twenty Zer05
Jamie Cullum Twentysomething
I Get Around 1964 The Beach Boys Endless Summer
"I'm gettin' bugged driving up and down this same old strip
I gotta finda new place where the kids are hip"
I Go Back 2006 Kenny Chesney Live Those Songs Again
I Go To Rio 2004 Peter Allen The Very Best Of Peter Allen
I Got A Line On You 1968 Spirit Time Circle (1968-1972)
I Heard It Through The Grapevine 1968 Marvin Gaye The Big Chill
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