Pullin' Chocks

Leaving Las Vegas

We are a little behind on the Pullin' Chocks Blog.  This post will attempt to catch us up.  We are currently in Yuma, Arizona and enjoying fantastic weather while much of the country deals with the frigid temperatures of the persistent High Pressure system that has parked over the Great Plains.  We enjoyed a wonderful six week stay in the Phoenix, AZ area, Sun City, AZ to be exact.  We spent Thanksgiving and Christmas with Gari's mom Shilo and her sidekick Alex the Miniature Poodle. Alex has been my pal for many years and we picked up right where we left off.  Shilo treated us very well as usual.  We ate way above our regular life station!  We rode our bikes around the area for fun and exercise and we got to see some great family friends from Bay Village, Gaby and her mom Barbara. Reconnecting with old friends has become a top highlight for me in this RV lifestyle.  It is so exciting and brings such great happiness!  It was hard for us to move on to Yuma.  But move we did, right into the Fortuna Foothills of the Yuma, Arizona area.  We will write more about Yuma as we get a few more weeks under our belt here.  I also need to write up our scariest event of our first year RVing in a new post.  That was on the road to Las Vegas...

My old pal Alex on my lap.  Shilo has Alex trained very well and I am here demonstrating the bad habits I am encouraging.  Alex is not allowed to beg, eat or hang around the table.  I managed to sneak Alex in for after meal lap visits pushed away from the table just enough!

My Bay Village family pals Barbara (L) and Gaby (R) came to visit us in our coach at Paradise RV Resport in Sun City West.  Gaby & I share the same birthday.  Our familys traveled together from Bay Village, Ohio to Bar Harbor, Maine via Niagara Falls in a big black Cadillac Limosine way back around 1965!  It was an epic adventure for both of our familys' that none of us will ever forget in our lifetimes!

Pepe and Penelope on site 2105 in Paradise RV Resort, Sun City, AZ

 The view on our street, 21st Street

In addition to the RVs in the resort, there are many Park Model dwellings.  This sweet little place was directly across the street from our lot.  It was for sale when we arrived and the buyer moved in before we departed.  We like the small size for many reasons.  Maybe something like this in our not so distant future...

After all the fantastic gourmet meals at Shilo's house and restaurant treats we grabbed a little exercise by riding our bicycles everywhere and every chance we got.  Below are a few pictures of typical neighborhoods in Sun City.

Lots of gorgeous cactus here.

 And of course the Christmas Cactus!