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Sunday, March 16, 2008 - Canyon Trail RV Park, Boulder City NV

Awaking to snow at White Spar Family Campground, Prescott AZ, March 16, 2008
Awaking to snow at White Spar Family Campground, Prescott AZ, March 16, 2008

Spring snow and rain in Arizona

This isn't the weather I traveled so far for this winter. I spent much of the day in and out of rain and, at the higher elevations near Prescott, snow, and temperatures colder than I really expected to find out here in the southwest. I finally left behind the families parked on the roadside having snowball fights about 50 miles east of Hoover Dam.

Night camp

Site 99 - Canyon Trail RV Park, Boulder City NV

From Knowledge to Wisdom

Wisdom is a product of a process. This process begins with information, proceeds through knowledge, and through what a less gifted poet, Edgar Guest, called "a heap of living," ends in wisdom.

... Wisdom, when it comes, usually arrives late in life. I've known some people who were wise in their early thirties and others who died old without a clue. Most philosophers were of the mind that a person should be at least forty years of age to have enough learning experiences. Now it seems that it is much too young. The step from knowledge to wisdom is the longest one in a person's life.

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