Phoenix, AZ

Dates of stay: Jan 24 - 26, 2022

Campground: Casa Grande RV Resort

Sad to leave Tucson as we loved our time there and 4 days wasn’t enough! That said, Phoenix was a fun stop as we got to see a lot of friends and family. Arrived at the RV park - we are easily 10-15 years younger than everyone else camped here! It is actually a bit difficult to find an RV park in and around the Phoenix area that is under 55 AND takes kids. But this place did. Very nice - great hot tub and pool and very friendly. They had a small market one morning selling Native American themed jewelry and fresh lemons - a huge bag for a buck!

During our time here, we had the Megan Gehrke family (her, husband and 3 boys) over for tacos at the RV. I made a big pitcher of really good lemonade with those lemons! They moved from Farmington, MN about a year ago and so it was fun to be able to swing through and see them. I was also able to visit my friend Nancy for the first time in real life. We met each other through Refine, a Christian women’s networking group, and she lives in Wisconsin. Funny thing is is that just a couple of weeks ago, she posted on Facebook that she was at an RV resort in Phoenix for the winter - just so happened she was about 15 minutes from where we were staying! So I made the trek over and we had so much fun chatting.

Finally, we spent the majority of time visiting Charlie and Rita Healy, Tom’s uncle and aunt, as they winter in the Phoenix area. We hung out at their place and had the chance to visit an amazing museum - the Zelma Basha Salmeri Gallery - which has one of the world’s largest private collection of contemporary Western American and American Indian art in the world. This one was a favorite:

We departed Phoenix the next day for Sedona, and had an extremely close call with a pilot car trailing a wide load - they pulled out RIGHT in front of us at a high speed. Thankfully, Tom is so adept at maneuvering this rig - crisis averted thankfully!