Finally...we are in Arizona

Don't ever doubt that this is a BIG country. We left central Florida a week ago, and yes, we spent two nights in southern Alabama (the Florida Panhandle), but a week traveling in a motor home riding over the Interstate system takes time and patience. If the trip were all like I-8 that we take for sixty miles between Tucson and Goodyear, then it would be fine. But the Interstate system is almost as old as the Boomer Generation. Pound, pound, pound. I told you about the lost hubcap, and that was the worst mishap, but we had an hour and a half delay in little old Wilcox, AZ about noon Thursday. The old boys were trying to rebuild the on-ramp at the same time that people were exiting, turning and returning to the busy I-10 intersectio: no notice, no detour...once committed...just sit and wait.

Anyway, we got in about 3:30 and set up in a lovely park (we scoped it out last year) for ten days. We spent the evening at Jan and Gary's, enjoying a yummy lazania and a glass of red. Then we stopped at the Safeway for some essentials and back "home" to get the WiFi set up and a good night's sleep.

I will comment more later about what we find, but for now...we are her in the Arizona time zone and enjoying the close to 100th day of no rain that they are going through, and will be going through, for the next week.

Rose is good...and well. She got some thorns in her feet the other day in West Texas (a God forbidden strech of nothing) but we got them out...or they fell out and I tramped on one in my bare feet...pesky little darts. No wonder she fell down when she stepped on one. I thought she was having a stroke!

Oh yes...in Deming, NM we stopped at the Roadrunner park and low and behold, when taking my address and giving the zip first, the girl looked at me and said, "Really? I'm from Saugatuck."
Well, we had a discussion and discovered they had been in Fennville, but left Michigan when both she and her husband were laid off at Haworth. Deming is the mecca for freight trains. Pretty nosiy night there in Deming.