Flop Eared Mule A Country Music Death Beast and Worker in the Dylan Industrial Complex | Sydney, Australia | Est. 2004

I don't really have many good non-family photos from Flagstaff but it's a cool place and deserves a post. It's Arizona, but it's north so not nearly as hot as, say, Phoenix and surrounds which was 100F plus when I was there. Flag was much more pleasant. And it is high, around 7000ft, around the same as Mt Kosciuszko (Australia's highest mountain.) The Grand Canyon is an hour away, but it snows too, and there are the forests, and the mesa, prairies, deserts and just about any other kind of terrain you care to name. I haven't been to the Pacific Northwest but it sort of reminded me of what I imagine parts of Oregon to be like (but with more nearby desert), with the cafes and the hippies and the Obama bumper stickers. A "college town." People carry guns, the Walmart has self-serve, you can buy grog at the supermarket, the cafes and bookshops let you bring dogs in, the mailboxes have those flags on them you see in movies (I never knew what they were for!), had my first "breakfast burrito" and went to my first proper country bar for 10c beers. There were lava tubes, also.

But yeah, I don't have any photos of all that. I do however have lots of my sister & bro'n'laws's animals, and the belongings of mine they ate.