Doreen and Laura's Excellent Adventure: There's a whole lot of desert out there!

Palm Desert to Sun City West, AZ (to visit friends)

I haven't been keeping up on the blog (as some of you may have noticed) but I'm trying to get caught up now. I know I always like to picture friends in their homes and it occurs to me that you might want to know what our "rig" looks like. These are old pictures but we still have the same motorhome (Winnebago Chieftain - 35 feet long) and tow car (Honda CRV).

Picture is taken standing in the entryway looking toward the rear of the
coach. The driver and passenger seats are behind the photographer. The
bedroom is at the rear. The bath is off both sides of the hallway. You close
the doors on each end of the hall and "presto" you have a good size
bathroom. The kitchen, dining booth and couch constitute the "living"
area. The kitchen and the couch section slides to the right about 18"
giving us a comfortable living space when we are camped for the night.

The trip along I 10 from Palm Desert to the Phoenix area is long, hot, dry and dusty. It's a place where you pray you don't break down. The only thing we saw of any interest was this sign along the highway as we approached Phoenix.

Don't the signs usually say "Don't pick up hitchhikers"?

In Sun City West we visited our friend Dolores who was Laura's supervisor way back in our working days at Pacific Northwest Bell. Through the years she and her husband Chuck became our good friends. Sadly Chuck is gone now and since he passed Dolores has been spending the winters with her ageing parents in Sun City West. Her dad died about a year ago so now it's just Dolores and her mom Wanda, age 94. We were especially lucky that her daughter Morgan was down for a visit while we were there. We've known her since she was just a little person and now she's all grown up and, as you can see, a serious motorcyclist. She actually had her bike shipped down for her stay in the valley of the sun.