It has been a busy week. A week ago we were in Butterfield and the weather did not get any better. It kept raining and it was always windy. We spent NO time outside. If I wanted to be inside I could have stayed in Portland. Then to top it off, the propane tank for the campground shower broke and the bathroom was closed. The workers did not seem to be in a very big hurry to fix the problem. Needless to say, I was not happy.
Thursday night we went out for dinner with the young couple who were camped next to us. we had a wonderful dinner and a great evening. After we got back to camp we went into their HUGE class A rig and talked and drank for a while until we were so tired that we were not making sense. It is a big rig, and there was more room in the middle, but I don't think a lot more sotrage space. Anyway, it was nice to have some time to talk.
Friday morning we left early for Phoenix. We had remembered tat there were a lot of RV parks in Yuma so we stopped at about a dozen of them to see if we should move there. I had done some research in advance, but we were not impressed with any of the parks. They were for OLD people. They were expensive and crowded and had lots of "activities." The season is almost over and so most of the folks were starting to leave. It did not look in the least bit interesting.
We did find a nice park just north of Phoenix which is very clean and well maintained. The sites are a nice size and the people are incredibly friendly. There are no "activities." Just a pool, an exercise room, and a reading room(all of which are open until 10 pm). It was not very expensive, but it was, of course, more money than we had planned because we thought that we had paid for the month. (no refunds at Butterfield). We had a wonderful weekend with Ira and Cathie. I met my great great niece and my great great nephew. So cute. We went to a spring training game for the Mariners and really enjoyed that. I had a good time just talking to Ira and Cathie - who were great hosts.
On the way home we stopped at two more RV parks and neither of them was great. So we considered just staying at Butterfield. But when we got back to Butterfield it was VERY windy. It turns out that it was very windy the entire weekend. That did it. Bob and I decided that we would either go home or go to Phoenix. We decided on Phoenix.
It really did not take much time to pack up the trailer. All those months on the trek make it very habitual. We left early yesterday - in the midst of a lot of wind. We got here in Phoenix and set up in very short order. It is warm here and there is a slight breeze. We had dinner outside on the picnic table. We had breakfast outside on the picnic table. Bob was able to go ona pretty good walk because there was so little wind and it was flat. Then we got the scooters down and took them to the local Lowe's to buy stuff to repair a hole I made in the trailer. We stopped for lunch. The trip on the scooters was so much fun. We just went around for a while. then I saw a Super Cuts. It has been too many weeks since my hair was cut. So I stopped in and got it cut. So cheap and it looks fine. I figured that even if it was a bad cut it would grow out soon enough, but I couldn't take the overgrown look of my hair any longer.
We are now just sitting around. Bob has fixed the trailer - it took no time. It is 93 degrees outside with 12 % humidity and a slight breeze. We may have to come back here for a longer stay next year
The pictures above are of the new campsite and the one cactus that was everywhere at Butterfield - the ocotillo.
Yeah. Bob finally feels as if we are on vacation.
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