Phoenix this Weekend: On, Off, On Again
Mar. 27th, 2023 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerWe're going to Phoenix this coming weekend. That sounds like a nice little last-minute getaway, right? Well, it's not last minute. We've had this trip planned for months. What is last minute is us wondering whether to pull the plug. 😰
Five Things:
1) We planned this trip at the start of the year. Basically we spent part of the New Year holiday break discussing, "Where do we want to travel this year?" One of the ideas was to spend a few days in Phoenix at the hotel where we love splashing around in the pools. If you click click that link and look at the date of the journal I linked to, you'll see it's from 2017. Yes, that's the last time we were there!
2) The planning for this trip really goes back three years. We had this trip planned for April 2020 but canceled it when Coronavirus became a true global pandemic. It took us until this year to get it back on our calendar. It's not that we're taking a long trip; it's a 3-day weekend. But every day off takes planning as it's always a question of "What best could we do with our limited time off from work?" Finding the right time to reschedule this put it out into 2023. 😔
3) Weather WTF? We chose early April for this trip because it's shoulder season in Phoenix. It's a time of the year when weather is warm enough to enjoy swimming outdoors but not middle-of-the-summer 113° (45° C) 🥵 hot. In the past early April has always seemed like a good time. For the past two weeks, though, Phoenix has been in a cold snap. I've been watching the daily weather; for several days in a row the temps didn't rise about the 60s. WTF, Phoenix?
4) We almost canceled several times. Seeing weather in Phoenix way too cool for enjoying swimming I started considering alternatives. We could pull the plug on Phoenix without losing money (reservations are all refundable)... but where would we go? A lot of other places on our list are too snowy right now. We'll have to leave those for later in the year, especially with the big snow season we've had in the west this year. And trips further east than Phoenix don't really work in the short, 3 day timeframe we have.
5) Phoenix, it is. Getting warmer. Ultimately I didn't cancel the Phoenix trip because I refused to do so until I had something credible as an alternative lined up. Nothing lined up. And now the weather forecast for next weekend is getting a bit warmer. Forecasts of upper 70s have climbed to 80 and now to the low 80s. That's still not quite warm enough for real swimming weather... but maybe the warming trend will continue! And if it doesn't, we'll spend less time swimming and more time hiking.
Five Things:
1) We planned this trip at the start of the year. Basically we spent part of the New Year holiday break discussing, "Where do we want to travel this year?" One of the ideas was to spend a few days in Phoenix at the hotel where we love splashing around in the pools. If you click click that link and look at the date of the journal I linked to, you'll see it's from 2017. Yes, that's the last time we were there!
2) The planning for this trip really goes back three years. We had this trip planned for April 2020 but canceled it when Coronavirus became a true global pandemic. It took us until this year to get it back on our calendar. It's not that we're taking a long trip; it's a 3-day weekend. But every day off takes planning as it's always a question of "What best could we do with our limited time off from work?" Finding the right time to reschedule this put it out into 2023. 😔
3) Weather WTF? We chose early April for this trip because it's shoulder season in Phoenix. It's a time of the year when weather is warm enough to enjoy swimming outdoors but not middle-of-the-summer 113° (45° C) 🥵 hot. In the past early April has always seemed like a good time. For the past two weeks, though, Phoenix has been in a cold snap. I've been watching the daily weather; for several days in a row the temps didn't rise about the 60s. WTF, Phoenix?
4) We almost canceled several times. Seeing weather in Phoenix way too cool for enjoying swimming I started considering alternatives. We could pull the plug on Phoenix without losing money (reservations are all refundable)... but where would we go? A lot of other places on our list are too snowy right now. We'll have to leave those for later in the year, especially with the big snow season we've had in the west this year. And trips further east than Phoenix don't really work in the short, 3 day timeframe we have.
5) Phoenix, it is. Getting warmer. Ultimately I didn't cancel the Phoenix trip because I refused to do so until I had something credible as an alternative lined up. Nothing lined up. And now the weather forecast for next weekend is getting a bit warmer. Forecasts of upper 70s have climbed to 80 and now to the low 80s. That's still not quite warm enough for real swimming weather... but maybe the warming trend will continue! And if it doesn't, we'll spend less time swimming and more time hiking.
