Well, we have been on our way home now for at least a month. We made the mistake of stopping by Phoenix, AZ, for “a few days” to visit some relatives. The weather was so lovely there and it was such a gorgeous city (we were actually in a subburb, called Apache Junction), that we just had to stay. Esspecially after we kept checking the weather channel, and it very clearly told us that we couldn’t go home!
We somehow managed to dock ourselves in a 55+ RV resort. The rules of said park declare that in order for it to maintain it’s 55+ status, 80% of the inhabitants must be over 55, and the remaining 20% must be no younger than 45. Hmmm. We did tell the resort owners to please take into consideration our combined ages, and either that did the trick, or the fact that we knew people in the park. (One of the other parks that we tried to get into flat out told us that there was no way we could rent a spot there, b/c of our age). Ach, the discrimination we must face!
We ended up having to leave the resort last week due to management getting their ginch all knotted up over something. See, the lot that we were in had been paid up in full until the beginning of April. The previous renters left, without a refund. We came in the same day they left, and management was more than willing to take our $200USD for a week of parking there. We stayed on three days past our scheduled departure date, b/c we couldn’t decide for sure if we wanted to continue staying there. They forgot that we were still parked there I think, and then booked our site to someone else. We were told we could move a few meters away and park in the stall over one. (Don’t ask my why the people coming in couldn’t just park in a different place). It would have been a lot of effort for us to undock, just to move over a bit, so we just decided to leave. The park owners were pretty upset with us for not re-booking on time, and really chewed a strip offa us. I was so tempted to bring up the fact that they were double charging/gouging on our lot rental, but thot better of it. They probably woulda chased us off the premises with their electric golf carts.
We have met some really fantastic people on this trip. Made some good friends. And the highlight of course for the last month, has been the super duper HOT weather! We are so brown (but I am sure that color will freeze off once we get near the border).
We are now in a ‘resort’ that is about an hour or two south of Vegas. Feels kinda wierd to not be in a 55+ campground. It’s spring break right now, and we’re in a very touristy town, so there’s lotsa riffraff.
No funny RV mishaps to report this post, thank goodness.