We have been parked at Happy Trails RV Resort in Surprise Arizona for three weeks and it has been a great opportunity to decompress and pick up on hobbies we have been meaning to pursue since retirement. When we are traveling the days seem to get consumed visiting or sightseeing and there are few opportunities to spend the time to complete anything.
Happy Trails is owner-owned and 75% or more of the residents are winter snowbirds who have organized every interest imaginable. There are 1800 RV sites here that support an 18 hole golf course and a large Town Center with the Chuck Wagon restaurant, library, activity center, and rooms for every activity imaginable. Each area has its own heated pool or hot tub and laundry. The influence of Roy Roger and Dale Evans is everywhere with the western motif and street names like Trigger and Gunslinger.
We spent the first week or so with appointments but have had a few days for swimming, sewing, scrap booking, golf, and genealogy. Sue also has had several opportunities to visit here sister Pat and we are planning on getting together with Pat, her daughter Staci, and Sue's brother's son Steve who lives near Luke AFB where he is stationed. The rest of our time has been spent gathering tax data and preparing for our upcoming caravan to Mexico.
There are several RV Forum members here that we meet for cocktails or dinner in the late afternoon and also Gary and Mary Lou Smith from Seattle with whom we have gone out to eat, Sue and Mary Lou have spent a couple of days shopping, and Gary and Jeff have golfed. Stan and Marilyn DeBlieck, our friends and neighbors from Arlington WA who we traveled with over last New Years from St Louis to Arizona, arrive this week for a month.
We also will be leaving next weekend for our annual week-long pilgrimage to the desert at Quartzsite for a gathering of the RV Forum and the annual RV and gem show. We will also meet up with friends from Seattle Glen and Connie DeWick and Ken and Marcia Holmes from upstate New York. After a week of 70 degree temps the temperatures have dropped from a high in the 50's to lows in the 20's at night so we hope it warms up again by the time we reach the desert!
