Arizona - we're here

This was the beginning of our trip to Arizona. We left Sturgis about 9:45 and headed south on this winding road through the Black Hills. The road took us through some lovely hill country, down through Custer and Hot Springs. There we hit Hwy 71 which took us all the way to the southern end of Colorado. All two-lane but nice country - some hills, some grassland and even some snow in South Dakota and then again in Colorado. Luckily all that snow was in the fields and on the hills and none of it was on the road.

This was between Nebraska and Colorado. The sunset that evening was beautiful with all the windmills.

Cross over into Colorado - this is actually southern Colorado and it was very pretty. The mountains off in the distance with the snow on them and the fields were white and a brilliant blue sky.

There was an area where the sage brush in the field added some green to the snow. It was a short road but very pretty.

These are the first saguaros we see when we get to Arizona. Every year I wait and look for them.

Dad put up his "Man Cave" sign on the door to his man cave. He also got a cavewarming gift from Linda D.B. that she made. It says, "Pete's Man Cave" - I'll take a picture of it for next week's blog.

Dad and I have been working hard since we arrived here. We washed the outsides of both trailers, washed all the windows on the new trailer and lots of misc chores. One of these days, we're going to start having fun. Turned the gas on in the trailer this afternoon so I can now do some cooking. Then some friends asked if we'd like to go to "taco night" at the Elks Club. Of course we didn't want to hurt their feelings so we said sure. There were 65 people from the park there this evening. Good food and good conversation.

That's it from sunny Arizona. Have a great weekend.

Love, MOM and Gramma