Blogs from Mesa, Arizona, United States, North America

After I broke my shoulder on 12 JUN 2023, I guesstimated that I should have enough time to heal and undergo my physical therapy before I had to fly to San Diego to begin the 2023 chapter of “The Great Adventure” on 8 OCT 2023. It turned out my last therapy session was two days before I departed. On the way to the airport, I managed to stop and help celebrate my niece’s 70thbirthday. It was nice to see her siblings, children, grandchildren and, yes, great-grandchildren. My friend, Gary, took me to the party on the way to the airport for my sixish flight to San Diego. After one night in San Diego, I boarded the MS Noordam on Sunday, October 8, 2023 for a 48-day cruise to four ports in Hawaii, seven ports in the ... read more

During my time as a full-time RVer, 2010 – 2020 (during which time, I spent at least one week in all fifty states), I generally spent the seven days of the week with three days for “housekeeping” (laundry, oil changes, grocery shopping, selecting and captioning photos and writing the narrative for the blog), three days for tourism and one day for relocation to a new RV park. Given that 2022 will find every tour day filled with tourism and every non-tour day filled with “coffee on the plaza with the locals,” don’t expect much original narrative during the 2022 trip. My plan is to give my audience a daily, captioned, pictorial essay accompanied by the narrative of the day’s activities as supplied by the tour provider. Some tour operators have tendered interesting, meaningful descriptions whereas others ... read more

What a way to start a vacation!!! Had a tooth infection that started on Wednesday. Hoped it would disappear, but just got worse. Finally told George on Thursday afternoon & he made me call the dentist. They made me an appointment for 9am on Friday morning. I suffered through the last Thursday night dance & the BIG afterparty. Wine certainly helped! The next morning, we headed to the dentist & I was lucky enough to get the services of Dr Holbrook, visiting periodontist & he pulled the tooth & gave his okay for leaving tomorrow on the trip! He even put in a bone graft in case I need an implant later! Stopped by to say bye to Bill & Carol (George gave my love to everyone so that I could keep my chipmonk look to ... read more

We spent a week in Mesa, making sure that there weren't any issues that we would need the dealerships help with. We saw Al & Chevy both several times during that week. They went above and beyond to make that we were completely happy with our new RV. On Wednesday we went to lunch with our salesman, Al. We were treated like friends, not just customers. I believe that we left a lasting impression on Al, and he on us. We left on Thursday morning, heading to Ruidoso, but stopped in Las Cruces that first night and spent the night parked in Maurine Martin's driveway. Kenisha, Maurine's daughter, cooked us dinner that night and breakfast the next morning. She's a sweetie. Maurine & I stayed up late talking. It's a wonder our jaws did't hurt from ... read more

July 4th, Mesa, Arizona... read more