Yesterday (Friday) we moved from Lake Pleasant to our favorite winter haunt, Cottonwood. Prior to leaving Lake Pleasant (which had non-functional wifi at our RV spot) we did a few things that we can now report. We had originally planned to see our niece Stacey for some quality time but she had several unexpected diversions so we have postponed that until later. We did however have a chance to meet up with Dennis and Hollie Kirkland who were our next door neighbors for a few years in Pinehaven.

We went out to lunch at a BBQ restaurant on a pier in Scorpion Bay at Lake Pleasant.

We had a nice lunch and a wonderful time catching up on our personal lives.

We also visited the Deer Valley Rock Art Center located in the city of Phoenix. There are reported to be more than 1500 glyphs scattered among the boulders but we could only see a few, and usually from a great distance.

Looking at the petroglyphs really made us realize how well preserved and interesting the Painted Rock Petroglyph Site was that we visited a week earlier when we were in Gila Bend (see the March 16 post). Mentioned then and probably very meaningful is that all the glyphs are on the south side of the boulders.

Back at our RV park we see lots of retired folks walking around and pedaling around in their tricycles. We guess the Seahawks fans must be the trike bunch (this is for you Chris).

When driving around Phoenix we really get a kick out of the not-so-clever attempts to disguise cell phone towers.

Today (Saturday) we are set up in the Rio Verde RV Park in Cottonwood, AZ. We have the same site as we did last year with the same issues. Namely the site slopes side-to-side so leveling the trailer is a little bit of a challenge. The low side is the entry side to our trailer so we have to add a step to make it navigable. A quick trip to Home Depot to purchase four cinder blocks at $1.09 each solves the problem. We did this last year and left the cinder blocks tucked under some bushes across the road, but they are gone so we made another purchase. Since we are going to be here for up to six weeks it's definitely worth the effort.

One last note, we have the best wifi here of any place we have stayed. But they are having some issues which we discovered when we arrived yesterday (apparently due to the age of the cable that brings it in). Sometimes it simply goes down as it was when we got here, but it soon came back up and hopefully it will be up for most of the time we are here so we can do a better job keeping up this blog.