Day 1 - On the Loose

I know this is a little late but I was really tired last night when I got home so I did not do a blog. Yesterday was one of running around as Tom (as in Hone) and I drove to Benson to a machine shop to see if I could get my hitch changed. I will drop the hitch off when I return this Friday.

Next it was off to Tucson where we went to Camper's World. Tom was able to finally order a part for his truck. He has been waiting for this for about a month. I was also able to spend some money - surprise! surprise!

After driving back to Benson where we had lunch I dropped Tom off at Bob King's Cowboy School.

I decided to drive to Safford where Arda was staying that night... it is about 1.25 hours from here. The scenery was very nice but the drive was terrible as I ran into snow, hail and rain... sometimes it seemed as if I had all 3 at the same time. I took a couple of pictures of the mountains with snow on them. Amazing because the day before there was no snow.


As I wanted surprise Arda with my visit (which I did) I did not tell anyone what I was doing. She arrived at the hotel before me but only long enough to get her wash going... this is like a fire drill with everyone vying for a place in line. I stayed for dinner and enjoyed a fun evening with all the women... I surprised Jeannie and Jan too so it was a triple surprise for me - HA! I did learn one thing from the evening, how to use the guardrail to help relieve yourself... Sure am glad I don't have to worry about these things!

Temperature = 45

Back Again - that was quick!

Well I seem to be in a groove writing about my days so I thought I would just keep going... at least one more day. We'll see what tomorrow brings.

I went to church this AM and when it came time to introduce visitors, up popped a person who was sitting behind me. He said he was from Grand Rapids and his name was Jim Jakos. Well it just so happens I worked the one and the same Jim Jakos at S/C. He "winters" in Sierre Cascade and was visiting a friend in Sunsites so decided to go to church. Small world! We had coffee and home-made cinamon rolls as we caught on our activities. It was good to see an old friend.

Next I went to Double Adobe to meet my new friend Tom Hone (from Minnesota). He is a very nice person whom I met at Bob King's place. Tom took his 2 horses down to his campground where we were going to ride some trails today. Unfortunately the weather did not cooperate. It was/is very windy (the trailer is shaking with the wind blowing at 25 - 35 mph with gusts to 45). The temperature also dropped from 62 to 45 so Tom and I went to Tombstone ("the city to tough to die" according to the side of the Marshall's car) for lunch and to see a person who does leather work. We ate hamburgers at Six Gun City where Arda first took me... the burgers are excellent! As I took Tom back to his place, we ran into some snow and light hail which fortunately did not last too long.

On the way back to my trailer there was some weather moving in so I took the following pictures which I thought were kinda neat.

What is amazing is that nothing came of these storms except wind... no moisture. I guess that is why this is desert - duh!

Temperature = 45 and very windy!