So much fun being with Gary’s sister and husband in Queen Creek just SE of Phoenix. We arrived on Thursday, I left for training in Berkley on Friday morning.

I’m doing science curriculum training for Department of Defense schools the middle of June for three days, I find out where I will be going sometime within the next two weeks.

  Gary and his sister had some time together and I returned Saturday night. Quick trip, I have one more training trip the end of April but that one will be to Atlanta.

We visited, did family things Sunday and Monday and headed south toward Tucson on Tuesday. Oh, what a talented sister-in-law I have. She makes doll clothes for the American Girl Dolls and sells them at huge craft shows here. The shows are in the RV parks where the snowbirds spend their winters!

 

 

We plan on sight seeing in this area for the next couple of days: Tombstone, Pima Flight Museum, Biosphere 2, and there are supposed to be some good wineries we plan to check out too.

Finally feel like we are getting into the travel mode. No matter how much you pack away in storage and tips you read, it’s just so draining physically and emotionally leaving a house and settling into a RV. I still am trying to organize cabinets, clothes and food! Figure I’ll have that mastered after about a month. I do love our 5th wheel, it is so comfortable.

We spent two days at the State Park in Fruita near Grand Junction,

 stocking up on Colorado wine and organizing ourselves.

A couple of days of skiing in Durango before heading to Arizona.

 We were hoping for warmth in Arizona but it hasn’t happened yet. Spent a windy day walking around the Petrified Forest and Painted Desert. Pretty amazing seeing logs turned to stone that are over 200 million years old. Saw what looked like a piece of off white wood and picked it up, it was so heavy, completely turned into stone – so cool!

Mostly staying in RV parks so that we can have electricity with the cooler nights, lows have been in the teens and 20’s. Yesterday we stayed in a State Park with a nice lake, so windy that thuge ponderosa pines tree trunks were swaying in the wind… but much nicer to have the wilderness around us as opposed to an RV park.

On our way to Phoenix!