I'm very behind on my blog posts so I hope to get several done tonight.
Sunday, February 7, 2016
We have only been in this park less than a week and we have met so many wonderful people. We are going to attend a block potluck and watch the Superbowl at a neighbor's.
People are starting to gather. In just a short time the tables behind the chairs will be full of food.
There were lots of hot dogs on the grill and the tables are full of lots of food. There are two TVs. The game is about to start.
This is only the first batch of hot dogs.
What a beautiful setting to watch the Superbowl!
A little while after the game started, the sun was starting to set.
Here is Tic's first sunset picture of the evening.
The picture above and the ones below are what I consider the best of the sunset pictures.
By half-time, it was close to dark and had gotten down to the upper 50's. Many decided to go home during half-time. We met a lot of great people. It was a fun evening!
Saturday, February 6, 2015
Today there was a fly-in at a small local airport which used to be an Army Airfield. We decided that would be a fun thing to do this morning.
Below are various air planes of many kinds including ultra-lights, gyro-copters and even model planes.
This is a gyrocopter. The upper rotor rotates because of forward momentum, it is not driven. There is a pusher motor propeller that pushes the craft forward and that causes the upper rotor to rotate and provide lift.
Another gyrocopter, this one nearly half the size of the other. Fun to watch.
This ultralight continued to draw crowds all morning.
Here are some of the model planes. They are good sized.
This is a close-up of the superman plane. We are not sure if it actually flies. The model plane group is having a fly-in next weekend. We play to go to that also. I guess we will find out if it truly flies or not next weekend.
One of the new Light Sport planes with a BRS, (ballistic recovery system) a parachute for the aircraft.
The folks standing around this little toot shows how tiny it is.
Even a seaplane in the desert!
And lastly, we watched the Pitts race off, leaving a short smoke trail for the crowd. Tic tried to catch him in a movie, but he was too fast, so the photo is a single frame from the movie.
Next weekend, there will be a fly-in of model airplanes. But before that we signed up to take an off-road Jeep ride with a group in the RV park.
Monday, February 1, 2016
Today we moved from Marana-Tucson to Florence, AZ. It was only a 1.5 hour drive. The weather in Marana the night of 1-31-2016 was extreme. There was rain and wind gusts up to 65 mph. We noticed the next morning that one of our slide awnings had come apart.
It was still lightly snowing when we pulled out about 10:30am.
This is the entrance to Desert Gardens RV Park.
This is our site for the next month. You can see it is very overcast here also. There is not any moisture.
This is the next morning. Look at that blue sky. The lot size is 60' X 70'. All the lots in this area are about this size. The people have been extremely friendly.
Above is looking up the street from our lot, and below is looking down the street. Look how wide the streets are.
As we walked through the park today, this is one of the views.
We like this park so much that we are seriously considering buying a lot in this park.
This is the view from one of the available sites. We really like this site. Still thinking.
This park is in the out in the country, yet it is only a little over an hour to either Tucson (south) or Phoenix (north). Casa Grande has most of the shopping a person might want and it is only 20 miles. If you are used to being in the country this is an ideal place.
Thursday, February 4, 2016
The people in this park are all extremely friendly. In the 2 days we've been here we have seen at least 2 lots leased. We decided we wanted to lease a lot also. We now have a 99 year lease and membership in the Desert Gardens RV Park Coop on one of the larger lots available.
This is a 360 degree of our lot. It is just gravel and sand right now. We are excited to have a winter spot. It will be a lot less expensive for us. Another new adventure.
Saturday, January 30, 2016
Today we are leaving to head back to South Forty RV Park in Tucson-Marana, AZ where our home is parked. We are leaving the RV park on Monday so need to get back to get things packed up to move.
This is the beautiful view as we are driving down the hill from Los Alamos headed to Santa Fe.
I think we are between Santa Fe and Albuquerque now.
Northern New Mexico is soooooo beautiful!
We are still on I-25 south headed to Hatch New Mexico. We love the beautiful mountains of New Mexico.
This unique sign was at a rest stop in New Mexico.
The clouds were just intriguing as seen both above and below.
Very shortly after we entered Arizona, there was a sand storm just south of I-10 as we traveled west. That is sand in the air not smoke or clouds.
Here the sand storm is starting to clear. We can see a little further.
The farther west we went the smaller the sand cloud appeared. As I said the sand storm was south of I-10.
This picture was taken looking north of I-10 as we drove west. Quite a difference.
After 8-9 hours in the car to get home, we decided to take a walk around the RV park.
The sun was starting to set as we started our walk.
There are lots of dove around the park. This one looks so perfect it looks stuffed.
The sunset was so beautiful I had to include several pictures.
Believe it or not, I whittled the sunset pictures down by half at least. The clouds were so unique.
We leave on Monday to go to Florence, AZ for the month of February.
