Home Sweet Home

This update has been a long time coming. Partly because of bad internet connections, but more so because of being non-stop busy.

After the casino at Pendleton, OR we stayed one night at a Wal-mart in Twin Falls, ID, followed by a single night at a campground in Kanab, UT. On Wednesday morning we took off for Show Low via Page, AZ and the Glen Canyon dam adjacent to Lake Powell. The lake was way low, but the dam and the downstream canyon are visually quite striking.

On the way past Meteor Crater on I-40 we stopped by and spent a few minutes with Frank before he had to leave for work. Besides catching up, we discussed him coming up to see our lot and visit on either Saturday or Sunday.

We were able to get a space, at least for a few days, at the Hon-Dah Casino RV Park where our good friends Gloria and Harriet are staying for the month of August. Gloria and Harriet are purchasing an existing park model at White Mtn Vacation Village, the same community where we purchased our lot. We checked in with them the next morning and made arrangements to meet for dinner that evening.

Over the next few days we interviewed several contractors as candidates to install a needed driveway culvert and to lay down an RV concrete pad on the lot. During this same time frame, we also provided moral support to Gloria and Harriet as they interviewed contractors for various work needed on their park model they purchased that is only about a one minute walk from our lot.

On Friday, we joined the girls at the Beverage House for their weekly $2 wine tasting. Generous servings of six wines, plus roast beef, turkey, and cheese. Life doesn't get much better. Even Chuck participated in the wine tasting, but not being a regular wine drinker, he paid a price the following day with the equivilent of a hangover.

On Sunday afternoon, Frank came up to visit us. We showed him our lot and then later we got together with Gloria and Harriet for dinner at the Red Devil Pizza & Pasta House in Pinetop. It was a fun evening.

The casino RV park was an OK place to park, but the Verizon phone and internet reception was spotty at best. Also, they didn't have a space for us beyond Sunday so we moved to a different RV park in Show Low on Monday morning. We will keep the rig here while we get the culvert and concrete work done on the new lot.

We got our lot contracts finalized on Monday, so we decided to take off Tuesday and head for Yuma for a few days to check on the house. About six hours later, we arrived in Yuma where the temps were running about 105. We fired up the A/C and pretended the heat didn't matter. The house was in excellent shape. Not even hardly any dust inside, which surprised us. One of the under sink valves decided to succumb while we were gone and wouldn't turn on. Outside we had a lot of weeds and tumbleweeds but no dead trees or bushes. Yeah!! We did find one of our sprinkler valves was leaking pretty bad which explained the higher than expected water bill, so along with the inside valve we had to replace it. All in all, no big issues and it was good to get home.

We only stayed in Yuma a few days and left to come back to Show Low friday morning. We came the 'back' way through Globe and enjoyed the view of Arizona's other Grand Canyon, plus a good hard 15 minute rain storm along the way.

We had a good time this summer. The highlights were our visits with Frank, Don & Don, Kenny & Scott, Danny, Chuck & Jerry, Robb & Joe and Gloria & Harriet. That said it sure did feel good to get home to Yuma. I think we will reflect a little before deciding on our travel plans for next summer.

I will probably do one more entry to the blog for this season to show off the concrete work on the Show Low lot, but the travelogue updates are over. We look forward to seeing all our northern friends as they arrive in Yuma for the winter.

Special thanks to everyone for the hospitality during our trip visits this summer. Also thanks to everyone for the email support along the way.

Regards

Bill & Chuck