A winter vacation to Phoenix was a really good idea.* It was warm. The wind didn’t blow, not even a little bit. The hotel was kitschy and comfortable (my favorite two things in a hotel.)

And there were carefully rolled towels on the chairs around the pool.

RISE Uptown Hotel
Phoenix, Arizona
photographed 12.26.2022

*Except for the part about expecting Southwest Airlines to get us home. I’ll skip through the narrative of THAT foolishness and summarize it this way: it takes 13 hours to drive home from Phoenix.