You Won’t Believe Our Next Adventure !

We’ve been in the Phoenix area for about a week now.   When we first arrived the temperatures were running in the 90’s but then it cooled right down into the 80’s.  Without humidity the weather has been perfect.  However, sunshine wasn’t the only weather we experienced.  One day it rained hard and thunder and lightening cracked for hours.  We think that’s probably behind us now.

We’ve enjoyed connecting and re-connecting with people we haven’t seen for a quite a while.   Of course, that means we’ve had a lunch or dinner scheduled every day since we’ve been back.  Our schedule has taken us around the Tempe, Mesa, Chandler, Apache Junction and even the Casa Grande area.  We’ve also had a chance to go back to some of our favorite restaurants.  We’ve shared lunch with the Dixons, the Hyders, the Rempes and the Kerseys.  In addition to that we’ve also visited a few places with Terry’s mom and sister.

  We’ve also been busy transferring items from the Roadhouse to the RV. 

After we were done, the  little “Roadhouse”  went to storage.









We’ve checked out quite a few RV parks in this area.  The RV parks are definitely much lower than the $1000 a month we paid in Florida!!    We found one in Mesa and in a few days we’ll be settling in there for the next seven weeks. 

We rode the kiddie train at the local park for something to do.

At first we thought our motorhome escaped any issues (other than dust) related to leaving it in storage under the hot Arizona.  We discovered the batteries didn’t fare so well and neither did the generator.  The generator still won’t start.  So, we have an appointment to get it checked out. It’s made us re-think again about leaving it all summer in the Arizona heat.

 We checked out the boats and kayaks at Tempe Town Lake

We’ve also visited Camping World a couple times.  One was to make an appointment and another time was to sit in the waiting room while our trailer braking system was fixed.  It seems it’s been one issue after another.

We checked out the bargains at the Dillard’s Clearance Center and found interesting shoes.  None followed me out of the store though.

Interesting T-shirts were found at the Mesa Swap Meet.

Have you ever seen a Google Self-Driving car?  Well, here’s one for you.  It did have a test driver with his hands on the wheel.

What won’t you believe?

It seems we’re going to become the caretakers of Buck, Justin’s bulldog,  for a few months. We discovered airlines won’t fly Bulldogs due to their short noses.  You might guess what the only option is of swapping Buck from Justin to us.  It seems we have no choice but to drive. 

   

We've been working on a plan and we think we've come up with one requiring the least amount of driving and the least expensive.  When Justin gets his leave approved we'll drive our truck to El Paso and fly to Nashville or Knoxville.  Drop off charges are quite a bit cheaper renting in Tennessee and dropping off in Texas.  If we took it to Arizona, it would almost double.  

After we rendezvous with Justin, the hard part begins and that's driving the rental car ALL THE WAY BACK TO EL PASO to pick up our vehicle before returning to Phoenix.  That’s the plan unless something changes.  It’s not a good plan but it’s the best we can come up with for what we need to do.    I hope Buck likes riding in vehicles because he’s going to be doing a lot of it (and, so are we) !!  I'm guessing in a few months we'll be doing this again.

What an adventure that is going to be !   Summing it up …. Justin is going to owe us BIG time for this!!!   BIG TIME.

‘Tis life on the road.