Still in Phoenix, well Scottsdale and we are leaving in the morning as I write this for Tucson, another long day on the road 🙂 Google Maps says 110 miles, 2 hours 1 minute
On Saturday Jackie Mobley came over and restrung (restrang? restrunged?) three of our day/night blinds. If you haven’t been on a coach and seen them there is no way I can explain how they work, just take my word for it that the stringing is either far more complicated than your average mechanic can deal with or mere child’s play if you know what you are about. She did the whole job in an hour and a half and that included repairs to two of them.
This left us time to go back t the Musical Instrument Museum for our second visit. We spent over four more hours there which is include an excellent lunch in the grill – from the Global Menu we both had the Ethiopian Stew, a vegan stew that was very flavorful and filling. Friday we had taken a bike ride and wandered through Papago Park. It had been so long since we had ridden that we limited our time and distance to avoid strain. Nonetheless we were out for a couple of hours and determined that there was much more to see in the park.
Yesterday, Sunday, we got back on our bikes and started to ride into the park. We made it as far as the Desert Botanical Gardens, about a 15 minute ride. There we cabled the bikes to the bike rack and began a lengthy exploration of the gardens. We wandered around the paths in the gardens for three hours, leaving only because they were closing and the sun was setting. Carol took way too many pictures to begin to sort through and I took none, well a few on my phone, because I was too dazzled to think what to take a picture of.
If you are at all into botanical gardens, desert flora, this is one of the musts.
Other stuff. After over a year of depending on my droid for wifi hotspot, I got fed up with the limited available monthly data and relatively slow response. Also it meant I could not leave the coach and take my phone if Carol wanted to work on her computer while I was gone. Today I bought a 4G LTE MiFi thing from Verizon that provides a very nice, fast wifi hotspot with 5 GB of data monthly. So far it is very fast and relatively reliable. Carol also got a new phone as hers was four years old – virtually an antique. Verizon Wireless is grateful for our long term relationship forking over large bucks every month.
Tomorrow, Tuesday, we will drive to Catalina State Park, just north of Tucson where Dean and Jane are camping. We have not seen them since last April just north of Calgary. This is the joy of RVing, we meet new people and we get to see them over and over as our paths intersect over the years.