La Dolce Vita meets Shatoosh!

[DesertAlbin736]

For folks familiar with Hira Reid's blog "Adventures of Shatoosh and Pashmina" here,

http://shatooshandpashmina.blogspot.com/

the latest news is that Shatoosh has a new owner who resides in Green Valley, Arizona, a small rural burg south of Tucson. Well, tomorrow said new owner Joyce is bringing Shatoosh up to our home waters of Lake Pleasant north of Phoenix to join up with us & do a little "shakedown" cruise before she takes it up to the Pacific Northwest for the summer in a couple weeks. We were supposed to go out today, but yesterday was the windiest of the season to date, so much blowing dust on I-10 between Phoenix and Tucson that visibility went down to zero and the road was closed for for several hours. Flagstaff up in northern Arizona clocked a maximum gust of 76 mph yesterday. If it were a tropical storm it would qualify as a cat 1 hurricane, but this was just bone dry wind. Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix recorded a max gust over 40 mph yesterday. Today is not quite as bad, but still expecting 20 knot gusts on the lake this afternoon and gusts as high as 35 knots overnight tonight, so by mutual agreement decided to wait until tomorrow until the front finally blows itself out and milder conditions return with the temps topping out at 79 Saturday & 86 on Sunday. It was a nice winter while it lasted, but we're just weeks away from full on 100+ degree summer.

[DesertAlbin736]

Had an interesting meet up over the weekend with the new owner of Shatoosh (ex-Hobbit). See details posted on the Albin Cruising/Meet & Greet page.