On our way to visit friends in Phoenix we made a quick stop at the newest National Park in the system - Saquaro National Park - named after the Saquaro cactus. This is the largest cactus in North America and can grow to a heigth of 50 feet. There are over 500 different varieties of cactus in this park which is located just outside Tucson.
We made a quick trip to a RV repair place in Tucson to have the converter replaced - we knew it was bad before we bought it but couldn't find a place to get it fixed on the back roads we were taking in Oklahoma and Texas.
We spent two full days in Phoenix visiting with several friends who have moved out of the northwest and into the sunny, warm and less expensive Phoenix area. Our first stop was to see Rogar & Karen Warren who let us park in their front yard and watch the sunset over the western mountains from their back patio.
The next morning we were at Dean & Bev Bass's beautiful home. Bev worked with Lee at Potelco and just recently retired.
Rick & Linda Gray (Linda is a high school friend of Millie's) have live in this area longer than anyone else we know and they love it. They met us at a parking lot so we wouldn't have to commute around in the RV. We had a wonderful lunch and saw some sights around Surprise.
Next on the list was Jim and Dawn Vorass (Dawn & Millie go back a hundred years). They showed us around their new community of Trilogy. It is one of the newer planned developments outside Phoenix and is just beautiful. We toured some model homes and got jealous. We also saw these coyotes wondering around the gold course.
It was wonderful to see all our friends so happy with their lives in their beautiful neighborhoods. Every one of you deserve the good fortune and happiness that you are now enjoying.
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