Sun City/ Scottsdale

After a great stay at St George Elks, we headed South to stay with Aunt Julie and Uncle Henry in Sun City AZ. The pets enjoyed being out of the van and we were thankful for the hospitality.  Henry showed me the extensive facilities geared towards all kinds of interests and activities.  The wood shop was absolutely amazing and so were the exercise facilities.  

We then headed to a condo in Scottsdale that a friend of Paula’s was very kind to let us use for 3 nights. This felt like we took a break from vanlife and entered vacation mode.  We had a great happy hour meal at Buck and Rider with shrimp ceviche  and trout dip with saltine crackers. Spent a couple days of hanging out by the pool and playing games.  We drove out to visit Chuck and Debbie in Brooklyn and had a great steak meal.  They are adapting to their new life and location very well.  

Yesterday I worked on a couple things on the van that we found needed attention after driving in it for awhile.  Today, we will be departing soon to visit our friends Nancy and Rhonda in Sierra Vista.  This will be about a 4 hour journey to the south which is at a higher cooler elevation and pretty close to the border to Mexico.  The weather so far on the trip has been perfect.  

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