Southward to 75 degrees

Today marks a week in Phoenix. We have enjoyed it here but are leaving for Tuscon in the morning. Bill and Cyndi are driving down with us to tent camp in a county park called Gilbert Ray. It is in the Tuscon Mountain Park. We are going to visit two different national parks neither of which has any camping. The county park is close to a desert museum and hiking trails and an hour drive from a saguaro cactus forest. We will stay there for a couple of nights then go into town to an RV park to get cable tv hookups for the Ducks game in the Sun Bowl.

From there we will be heading into Mexico. I discovered today that we are actually closer to Mazatlan than we are to Salem, by a couple of hundred miles. The temperatues there should be in the 80’s. The new Woodall’s RV park directory includes Mazatlan and show 7 or 8 RV parks there so hopefully we will be able to get into to one.

I am researching cell phone and internet options while there. I suspect we will be using internet cafes to hook up internet to contiune with the blogging. We also have to get Bentley into a vet for routine maintenance and to be neutered and chipped.

I have lots of photos of Christmas and will be working on them the next couple of days to get them posted. Should have some great shots of desert sunrises and sunsets from the park we are heading to.

We went over to Bill’s tonight to watch the Beavers win against Maryland. Go Beavers. The Pac 10 had already lost two bowl games and it was looking bad, particularly since I don’t expect the Ducks to win their game in El Paso. Which is only 300 miles away but I don’t feel up to that much driving right now.

The trip to Mazatlan breaks down to about 4 or 5 of our driving days with convenient cities with RV parks along the way. The highway is Hwy 15 all the way down and is a toll road. The conditions are much like driving the Interstates but it will cost something like a hundred dollars for tolls. Well worth it.

I haven’t said much about my leg. It is doing much better and I am already moving and putting weight on the bad leg better than I ever was before the second surgery. I tire quickly but am feeling much better and am able to help much more with all the chores. It feels good. It has been a long time since May when I crashed and the muscles in that leg have atrophied so much I am figuring on a year to really get back to where I was. But each day is better and I feel good about how it is going.

Later.

Greg