It's 115 degrees. 

I need new vistas, I need a refreshing new point of view.  I need a different breeze in my hair, and cooler water on my face.  

They say, if you are bored, you are boring.   I am not a thrill seeker, but perhaps I need some amusement in my life to make it all more palatable.  

I just finished reading another book, an eBook, State of Wonder.  I don't want to go to the jungles outside of Manaus.  I think of my college days when Spain lay before me, rail pass in hand, backpack and camera in hand.  I think of my weeks after med school.  Norway and Sweden and Denmark welbekommening...  rucksack, laptop, and smaller camera in hand.  Oh, the fjords.  How I have missed you. 

In a month I will be traveling, and some vistas will be new, and some old, and all will be anti-Phoenix.  But that is then, and this is now.

In my mind's heart, I need a new safari.  Somewhere to explore that I have not overvisited through books and writing and netsurfing.  I need a new section of the bookstore.  I need a new cafe.  I need a new coffee drink.  I need a new neighborhood to turn down on the way to the store.  I need some fresh air.  

I did my weekly hunter/gather at Sprout's and Fresh&Easy.  Always juggling tried and true, with interesting and new.  Not all the fish are equally tasty...

So, it must be time for a safari.  Half of our jungles are on fire, and it limits my search to everywhere else.  Now, to just find me a good hat and sturdy shoes, a linen suit, and get out my field glasses.  There are some birds to watch and some natives to observe.