OUR SPACE IN MESA. HERE WE WILL MAKE PLANS FOR NEXT YEAR

 

WE ARE BACK

We are back in our home park in Mesa, Arizona after 10 months of traveling the wonderful US of A. It was a wonderful trip and we really enjoyed all the new adventures. There are no pictures of our trek across Texas and New Mexico as all that was there were flat land, tumbleweeds, mostly nonworking oil wells and fields of cotton. The price of cotton must be up as I have never seen so many fields of cotton in this area.

We got caught in the artic snap through Texas with temperatures down to 11 degrees. Brrr. It is good to be back in AZ with temps in the 60s. To be fair, the normal temperature in Texas is usually 60.

It feels good being back and settled for a while and seeing old friends. Also we know our way around here so much better, will get caught up on medical and dental appointments and can get odds and ends done. Lovern won’t know until after her appointment on the 28th when the operation on her shoulder will be.
This is a wonderful park and we look forward to exercising in the pool and soaking in the hot tubs. Our orange tree is really loaded with oranges this year so we may slip in a few mimosas.

one of the pools at our park in Mesa

 

BAKERY IN LITTEL PORTUGAL WITH GLORIA

 

HEADING FOR ARIZONA

The Lion King performance was as wonderful as the other productions we had seen: the colors, the puppets, the music. Fantastic! We also made connection with Gloria, the RVW member from Brooklyn, before we left New Jersey. She took us to a section in Newark that is a little Portuguese settlement. All of the stores are in Portuguese and most of the people speak Portuguese. We went to a Brazilian restaurant where I had feijada that rivaled what I had in Brazil. The servings were so large that we ended up with four meals each off of them. Then Gloria insisted on introducing us to a small custard pie that she loved in Portugal and we found a bakery that served them. She said they were not as good as in Portugal but they tasted mighty good to us.

Since then we have been heading south. We had Thanksgiving with old friends, Nancy and Nancy in North Carolina with a view of the Atlantic and the inland waterway. This was one marvelous meal.

Because of the warm fall, we have had the pleasure of also following the turning leaves as we traveled. We stayed on a wonderful lake in Georgia and dodged tornadoes in Alabama. We are now in Mississippi and headed tomorrow for near Ruston, Louisiana. We will be there three days with an RV guru who will put the finishing touches on our RV. Everyone raves about his work and we already had him do some work at the rally in Wyoming.

After that we are heading back to Mesa, Arizona as quickly as possible. We plan to be there about December 14. We look forward to seeing old friends and getting Lovern’s shoulder fixed.

OUR RV SPACE AT MISTLETOE STATE PARK, GA

 

OUR TORNADO WATCH. WEATHER RADIO IN UPPER RIGHT CORNER