Well not just yet, as you know we are not real big at booking camping sites, we pretty much just fly by the seat of our pants…well news alert we just booked six days in a parking lot in the Lake Havasu area for the balloon festival in January of 2020 with no hook ups for the 4 days of balloon watching and I’m pretty sure we will be with a few hundred of our newest closest friends, and when I say close, I’m thinking in a sardine kind of way…lol

As full time RVr’s we have learned when you need to be worried about having a camp site booked and when you just roll the dice and take it as it comes, as Arizona is our escape this winter from the cold and is one of the easiest areas to find spots. Oh yea some areas are booked months in advance these are normally the high population areas like Phoenix or Scottsdale, but there are so many free camping spots in Arizona it is never really a problem.

We have a number of friends that we want and need to catch up with this winter we are going to move around the state spending a week here and there to spend some time with as many people as possible, we also want to take in the Quartzsite area bedlam and attend some of the rally’s or met ups in the area. There are a number of spots that we just didn’t get to last trip through and quite honestly we are just a whole bunch more comfortable and smarter this time through, not to mention much better equipped for the boondocking that is available. We will stop for full hook ups when we need to dump, fill and do laundry as there are lots of small campgrounds around that can serve that purpose.

Well as I’m finishing up this blog Miss Laurie just told me that we have made a reservation for a month in the Why Arizona area, so we will be spending the holiday season with our RV family from Why…what is so great about this is that it was our first real planned stop as full timers and the community made it a very easy transition into this lifestyle. Now not to be too hard on anyone but we had been trying to get a site in the original park we had been in two years ago for over a month with no answer one way or the other, it was always we will get back to you which they never did. It wasn’t a real problem to us either way we just wanted to know so finally they told us they had no spots and before the end of day Laurie had us booked into a spot at Sonoran Skies right next doors.

We will be heading to Arizona in early November, so there will be very few open campgrounds, so other that lot surfing or mooching a spot here and there we will just be hopping for good weather, as we are looking to go across the central part of the states, as opposed to heading to the southern states as we did last trip west, so hopingto use interstate 40 corridor if possible.

 

Well what can be said, it’s not often that Miss Laurie is caught off guard, in fact the last time it was a surprise fiftieth birthday gathering that I was able to mastermind under her nose. So it was very cool that we both got shocked by a pair of totally unexpected visitors.

I met Teresa many years ago at her work in Naiagra Falls where I purchased a few products to fill orders on some of my customers want lists and I then introduced her to Laurie who sells Scentsy products and Teresa just happened to be a Scentsy Addict, and the relationship grew from there, it wasn’t until sometime later that Anito and I met. Teresa is a great cook and was always baking cookies or goodies so every time Laurie and Teresa got together I knew there would be some goodies for me. Laurie would have an open house to show off the latest Scentsy products and Teresa would always drop by.

Anito is the head of maintenance at a hotel on Lundy’s Lane which is one of the main tourist areas in Niagara Falls, so we always had mechanical issues and a list of repair nightmares and unusual problems in common to discuss. In fact when discussing work issues many of Anito’s stories made mine seen quite trivial in comparison, the things that people do has never failed to amaze me and the things they do in their hotel rooms goes to a whole new level of bizarre.

So Teresa and Anito had rented a cottage in Grand Bend for a week and just thought they would stop by to surprise us, it was a Sunday and Laurie and Miss Bonnie were inspecting the progress of the gardens at the guest house and I was sitting by the coach with my laptop, most likely working on a blog post. And there are lots of cars moving around as the weekend warriors are heading out after the weekend so I never noticed when a car pulled in behind the coach. It wasn’t until I looked up as they were a few feet away that I was scrambling to place the faces, we have met about two hundred new families this year and we are doing pretty good at placing faces with site numbers and then remembering the names, but these familiar faces were not from the park. So a couple seconds later I’m out of my chair and Miss Laurie is hustling over to greet our unexpected Niagara visitors.

And then there were tears of joy, as Miss Teresa was beside herself, as she had pulled off the big surprise off flawlessly, so because we were still on shift we had a very short visit and made plans for dinner in Bayfield the next evening to catch up, on the latest happenings both with work and family. It’s my bad that I totally neglected to get any photos but it was so great to catch up, and hear what was happening, with our nomadic lifestyle we only seem to get together once or twice a year so there is always lots to catch up on. So we have made plans to get together before we head to Arizona this fall.