Goodbye Arizona, Hello California!

3/13 – 3/28/2015 – Goodbye Arizona, Hello California! – Wow what a great month March turned out to be, not only with the weather in the high 80’s most of the month, but also some great times.  Started out with a fantastic round of golf at a really great course at McDowell Mountain Golf Club courtesy of my old boss from Xerox Matt Grissom in Scottsdale, Thanks Matt!!!!  While I was golfing Chippy enjoyed a special hamburger luncheon at our resort with all of our Arizona snowbird friends.  Then we had a really great St Patty’s Day dinner of Corned Beef and Cabbage at the RV Resort. Then we joined a group of about 25 from our resort and had a dinner show at the Arizona Opry and saw a great show put on by CC Ryder.  We continue to enjoy the weekly jam sessions at the resort and of course we never miss the ice cream socials or the monthly horse races.  I continue to enjoy the weekly golf outing every Tuesday with all of the golfers from the resort and Chippy loves the peace and quiet when I am not there, so out of the goodness of my heart, I also play on Thursday's.  This past Tuesday we ended the season with the annual resort championship and everyone had a really great time, which was topped off with a party and awards ceremony for the golfers and spouses the next day hosted by our golfing coordinator Frank and his wife Joan.  We will really miss the wonderful friends we have made at Superstition Lookout RV Resort and hope to see them again sometime down the road,  they have really made us feel like part of their family in the three months we have spent here in Apache Junction.  Along with the wonderful weather we have enjoyed here in AZ we have also been fortunate to have had enough rain this past fall and winter to see the desert flowers in bloom and the desert much greener than most years, the cactus flowers are really a sight to see.  We now look forward to our next journey through CA via Yosemite NP then on to OR so see our fiends Jamie and Dennis.  We have really been blessed to have been able to spend this winter in AZ and leave with so many wonderful memories and new friends.  Thanks to everyone who made us feel so welcome!!!!!

Hamburger Luncheon

 


St Patty's Day Party

 
Horse Racing

 


Ice Cream Social                                                        

Golf Tournament

Desert in Bloom

 

2/14 – 3/12/2015 – Good Sam Rally and so much More!!!! – It has been a very busy month which started off with a Valentines Dance at the RV Park where I became Fred Astaire and Chippy was Ginger Rogers and we danced the night away.  Then at the end of the month we dry camped at the Good Sam Rally at the Phoenix Raceway and had a blast.  We enjoyed live entertainment every night and did seminars and shopping by day.  Thursday night was the Dina Preston Band, Friday night was Ticket to Ride, a Beatles Tribute Band and Satuday night was Super Diamond, a Neal Diamond Tribute Band.  The entertainment was great and we did some serious safety upgrades for the Motorhome including new smoke alarms, and fire suppression systems on the engine and refrigerator.  Don’t want to chance a motorhome fire while we are having so much fun.  Met lots of nice folks at the Rally and learned more about the fulltime lifestyle.  After the Rally it was back to the RV Park for our weekly activities including horse racing, weekly musical jams, golf and happy hours.  Last week we spent a fantastic day wandering Old Scottsdale and then enjoyed visiting my old boss Matt Grissom and his lovely wife Tricia where they served up a culinary feast in their beautiful home at the foothills of McDowell Mountain.  This week was busy with a casino bus trip on Monday, a pizza luncheon at Organ Stop Pizza (http://www.organstoppizza.com/) home of the “Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe Organ”.  This musical instrument is really too amazing for words, the console itself has 276 keys and 798 stops and controls which are used to play hundreds of other instruments.  Definitely a must see if you are ever near the Phoenix area.  Wednesday was a farewell party for a long time resident of the park who will not be returning due to health issues and Thursday as usual is golf day, boy do I love this retiree lifestyle.  

Good Sam Rally

Good Sam Entertainment

Good Sam Pics
See if you can find us in the first two photos

Organ Pizza