Hello to all. Here we are, traveling on from Tucson to Phoenix - visiting with family and friends who live here in the winter along the way. Monday night we had a marvelous home cooked meal. Aunt Margaret hosted Uncle Al & Alice, Sandy & Brian and Karen & I for dinner and it was delicious. Karen and I have been surviving on basically microwaveable food on the trek west - which is fine - but nothing like home cooking...While sitting over coffee and a brownie - Karen noticed the sunset on the mountains in the distance and what a beautiful color it was - hence the picture. We had some great times just catching up - which I must admit I really enjoyed.
On the Tuesday - Elton and I went in search of a bike shop to fix the two bikes that we had borrowed from Jim and Maur. Nothing like the blind leading the blind. Uncle Al saying - I know there is a bike shop around here someplace, Brian press ganged into checking the yellow pages and coming up with out of business shops who haven't taken their number out of the phone book yet, and us needing Sandy to finally come home, find a shop and verify that they existed prior to us driving there. It was fun anyway - driving around Tucson with Al.
In the afternoon - Sandy, Margaret, Karen and I went off for a scenic drive through the Saguaro National Park. I know that Karen has already told you about the Saguaro - but suffice it to say - that it wasn't what I was expecting. I think westerns make you think that they are dotted about - one here and one there. Not so - at least not at the park. As you drive further north towards Phoenix - yes - but in Tucson - they abound. The park was scenic - hard to capture in a picture, the company excellent. It was a fabulous day for the drive - although chilly. We took a picture next to one of the mature Saguaro's - which shows just how tall some of them get. You can tell that they are not small and yet they seem very graceful. They live around 200 years starting from a seed no larger then a poppy seed.
Today - we arrived in Phoenix to a power outage at the RV park that we had booked at. It's not that we couldn't find another park - it's just that this is the park that an old friend - Margaret Britain is at visiting her Mom and I did want to see her along with the family in the area. So we have put up on the site - even though there is no power, the weather is an unseasonably cold at 35 to 40 degrees so we have needed to run the generator to keep warm, they had workman working outside our unit until after 2am in the morning to no avail running a generator for their light - but not for us, and Uncle Hersch recommends I don't attach the water as they are forecasting more freezing weather for tonight. Welcome to Arizona - home of the Winter sun.
And there's Karen being ever so sensible in her Michigan outerwear! You two pulled out of here just in time. But good news, the ground hog says we will be ready for your return in May! Thanks for that post yesterday Karen. Your wrinklie readers appreciate those intermittent doses of reality. Don't forget Ten Thousand Waves in Santa Fe. Call ahead and schedule your treatments...sounds like you might be ready for a herbal wrap! Log
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