Whoops!  Forgot this in the last post,but here we are in Arizona! What is here?  The Grand Canyon, Suguaro National Park, the Hopi Nation, the Navajo Nation, the Hualapai Nation, the Havasupai Nationand so many others.  Mark’s brother Doug has a son who lives here and he visits several times a year.  So he found a place where he thought we could winter.  The place is west of Phoenix and is called Pueblo El Mirage.  It is a 55+ Golf and RV resort.  It is incredibly beautiful if you love the desert and we fell in love at first glance.

Walking around the place we discovered a little village of Craftsman styled houses and made the leap and bought one.  I know, precipitate, but we love it here.  My brother says we had to look far and wide to find a place more conservative than North Carolina but our liberal roots haven’t been challenged too much here.  The school board is just as weird as the one in Raleigh, the sheriff is on trial for contempt of court, and the lady at Lowes doesn’t believe in CFL or LED light bulbs.  But the paper leans way left and we haven’t met many challenging people.  There are a bunch of houses with solar panels, they are working at saving water from the aforementioned Glen Canyon Dam, and a bunch of geezers like us leave in the summers saving on air conditioning costs.

Because I can’t figure out how to cut and paste on this page right now, I’ll add pix of the new place on the next post!