Unbelievable Weather

And we mean UNBELIEVABLE! After 3 months of unseasonably cool temperatures we now have temperatures in the mid-70’s for as long as the long rang forecast goes. The only change is whether sunny or partly cloudy each day. We are in Goodyear Arizona just west of Phoenix. A valuable lesson we have learned is that during an El Nino the best place to be is probably where we are now. This is not saying that El Nino did not impact this area because it did but it was lot less of an impact than in Texas where we spent the majority of the last 3 months. Another lesson learned is to pick an area and stick with it instead of starting out in Texas and then heading to Phoenix.

One brief story indicates how unbelievable the weather has been, for the very first time in February we had to hunt for shade to park the truck while shopping so it would not be too hot IN February!!

We will be here for 5 weeks until mid-March at which time we will begin our one week at a time sojourn back to the Kansas City area. It sure is different when you will be some place for over a month versus one week. We put the tire covers on when we got here which we usually do not do. There is also a great lack of urgency to do sightseeing when you know you will be there for awhile.

We still are adapting to this life style but we were able to do a couple things that made it feel more like home. First we brought home a take and bake Papa Murphy pizza and cooked it in the propane oven. We were surprised at how well it worked. Next we want to try a medium sized pizza since that size will fit into our convection oven. This is huge since we did a Papa Murhpys pizza once a week while living in the old Stix and Brix. The other thing we accomplished was buying a bird feeder and mounting hardware to hang the bird feeder from our ladder that goes to the roof. The cats really love seeing the birds and we do too. Don’t know if it was the bird feeder or not but a road runner jumped up on the wall that is at the rear of our site. This is the first road runner that either one of us has seen.

We are working on the Texas Hill Country update and hope to have that completed and posted shortly. Since we will be visiting Benson Arizona and Deming New Mexico on our way home we will combine the two weeks at each location into one post.after we have been there on our trek to the Kansas City area.

We have friends and relatives that we plan to see while in Goodyear, plus the park has so many activities that we will be busy until mid-March.

Till next time,

Bob & Jo

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