Well, our relaxing winter in Hemet is coming to an end. We have kept only as busy as we wanted to and apparently we didn't want to too much. I golfed a lot and Grammie did a lot of Swedish Weaving. At least she had something to show for her efforts.
We went for a few drives; here we managed to go high enough in the mountains to hit snow. We still don't miss it!
I usually go for an early walk; us older folk don't sleep in much anymore. So I get to see lots of sunrises, like this one.
There are a few abandoned units here. People can't pay the fees and just leave their unit like this one. It was damaged in a Santa Anna wind storm we had a couple of months ago and the people just disappeared a few days later. The park can't do anything with it until legal process is followed which can take months. In the meantime it's an eye sore.
Although not as bad as this one. They were evicted due to non payment of site fees but the park still must wait months before touching it in case they come back with the back payments. Thank goodness there are some lovely rigs, like Harvey, that offset these eyesores.
But it's time to head toward home and our first stop after a 6 hour drive is just west of Phoenix in Buckeye AZ. I do love the architectural style down here.
Finally we are set up for the next few days. Having stayed in Hemet for a few months, we're out of practice and our setup routine took longer than usual but we'll speed up.
A walk around the park brought us to this happy hour setup. Now these guys know how to set up, no folding lawn chairs here. If you can't read the sign on the Tiki bar it says "Tiki Bar Open We serve whatever you bring". I like it!
If you've been following our blog, you know that we like to visit State Capital buildings whenever we get the chance. So who knew that Arizona's state capitol was in Phoenix, just a harrowing hours drive from our relaxing RV resort. Interestingly, the building is mostly museum and the actual government offices have been moved to buildings around the capitol building, kinda like school portables only more substantial.
In front of the capitol buildings is a park dedicated mainly to the ships of the second world war.
You may recall that the U.S. entered WW2 after Japan bombed Pearl Harbour and sank a number of ships. Now which ship had the most loss of lives and couldn't be salvaged? What state are we in? (and not confusion) Come on you didn't know. You read the name on the anchor. This is the memorial to the states namesake, the USS Arizona.
These 2 big 16" guns are from the Arizona and the Missouri. One sank to start the war and the other was the site of Japan signing the surrender. Those bent things are stands holding stainless name plates of every person who died during the attack on Pearl Harbour. The flag pole behind them is the actual signal mast retrieved from the Arizona. A somber reminder of lives lost.
One of the constants of our travels is that we must keep traveling. Our route home is along a trail we have scouted before so there may not be much new to report but I'll try to keep it interesting. Leaving Phoenix, we climb about 6000' as we leave the lower desert behind and approach Flagstaff. And so ends our first posting on our return home blog. Stay tuned, who knows what zany antics we may be up to in the next few days.
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