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O is for Out of Order and Oatman, Arizona

April 18, 2011 By: Patricia

I’m out of order.

I’m coughing, have a very sore throat, am sneezing and dripping, and my sinuses are trying burst my head open from the inside. My teeth even hurt. My apologies for taking the easy way out today, but I plan to spend another day on the couch, drinking hot tea and lots of water and napping (not to mention the hacking, sneezing, dripping and whining).

To keep to my travel theme, however, I would like to refer you to a previous post I wrote about Oatman, the ghostly touristy gold mining town in NW Arizona that I used for part of the setting of The Desert Hedge Murders. It’s nice and short.

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Comments

  1. Lee Goldberg says

    May 1, 2011 at 12:24 am

    I’ve used Oatman in several books…disguised (“Mr. Monk in Trouble”) and undisguised (“Diagnosis Murder: The Dead Letter” and “Mr. Monk on the Road”). It’s a great setting.

    Lee

  2. Hold my hand: a social worker's blog says

    April 19, 2011 at 7:42 pm

    Aw… Hope you feel better soon.

    Doris

  3. Monti says

    April 19, 2011 at 9:07 am

    Sorry you’re feeling awful. Colds can make you so miserable. Hope you’re better soon.

    Monti
    NotesAlongTheWay

  4. Stephen Tremp says

    April 19, 2011 at 9:04 am

    I recognized Oatman from Desert Hedge Murders as soon as I saw the word. Your next book is on my TBR list. Gotta make it through this A to Z Challenge first though.

  5. Arlee Bird says

    April 18, 2011 at 7:23 pm

    Hope you get to feeling better real soon. Oatman is a strange and fascinating place. I took my wife there in the summer of 2009 as we took the long way home from Las Vegas. She was not overly thrilled with it, but she tends to prefer either more urban areas. Oatman was a little too rustic for her.

    Lee
    Tossing It Out
    Twitter hashtag: #atozchallenge

  6. Tara Tyler says

    April 18, 2011 at 2:39 pm

    hope you feel better.
    we visited Oatman last summer – crazy-a** little town, eh?
    Happy O day!

  7. L. Diane Wolfe says

    April 18, 2011 at 8:07 am

    Sorry you feel so awful – feel better soon.

  8. Paul D. Brazill says

    April 18, 2011 at 7:59 am

    Oatman is a great name for a town. Pretty cool looking too!

  9. welcome to my world of poetry says

    April 18, 2011 at 7:11 am

    Get well soon Patricia, nothing is worse then when the sinus’s play up. Take care and have plenty of rest.

    Yvonne.

  10. Charmaine Clancy says

    April 18, 2011 at 7:04 am

    Sending some well wishes and hardy immune your way 🙂
    Wagging Tales – Blog for Writers

  11. Jenny says

    April 18, 2011 at 6:09 am

    Feel better soon, Pat!

  12. Grandpa says

    April 18, 2011 at 6:08 am

    Nice photos around Oatman.

    Plenty of rest and fluids is what you need. Hope you get well soon.

    Grandpa
    Life on The Farm

  13. Margot Kinberg says

    April 18, 2011 at 6:06 am

    Pat – I am so sorry to hear you’re sick! Take care of you and I hope you feel better soon. And thanks for the reminder of that great Oatman post!

Meet Patricia

I read, I write, I blog, and sometimes I do the laundry and cook. My 2014 novel, Dead Wrong, was a finalist in the thriller category of the 2015 Colorado Book Awards. Wishing Caswell Dead (Five Star/Cengage, December 20, 2017) is a historical mystery set in 1830s Illinois in the fictitious Village of Sangamon. The novel was a finalist for the 2018 Colorado Book Awards for General Fiction. Read More…

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