Leaving Casa Grande

Well we have been here for 2 weeks so it must be time to head on. Our plan, such as it is, is to go to Tucson this afternoon and have dinner with my nephew Jeff. Then we plan to head on to Austin Texas, but D'Linda was just looking at the weather and it said it was only going to be in the 30's in Austin. I told here that we could take our time and maybe spend a few days in New Mexico, she just looked and there is a winter weather watch in effect there until Thursday. We may have to go to Mexico. If we wanted cold rain and snow we could have stayed home. We'll head out pretty soon, but it is looking like we may not go much farther than Tucson for a few days.

We have had great weather here, they say it has been unusually nice. It has been a little cold in the mornings, but it gets to the mid 70's by afternoon.

Two weeks is about all I want here, it is nice, but not really my cup of tea. The spaces are all big enough for a large motorhome or trailer and parking for a car or two with enough space left for all the lawn chairs and tables everyone seems to pack along. They have an active softball league that I would join if I stayed. We watched a few games, I would be one of the kids here. Some of the guys are so slow to first you should be able to throw the ball around the infield and still get them out, but I only saw a couple double plays. When they get to first a lot of the guys get a courtesy runner. Some teams must hope they never get the bases loaded because they wouldn't have enough guys that could be runners.

They have all kinds of shops here if you want to make ???, the wood shop is well equipped and only costs $1 an hour to use it. There is golf, tennis, pickelball, lawn bowling, shuffleboard and softball. They have organised outings, from hiking to skydiving. If you got bored here it would be your own fault, but I like a little more space, and what is wrong with being bored once in a while?

We drove around some yesterday and looked a homes for sale. The prices are incredible. We have some friends in Maricopa, the 1400 sq. ft. 5 year old house across the street from them just sold for $44,000. We looked at a very nice home with a big lot, probably close to 2,000 sq. ft. 3 car garage less than 5 years old, asking price, $99,900. We went into a very nice gated 55 plus active adult community. It had a series of canals running behind some of the homes, large very, very nice community center with large heated pool and many amenities. All the homes are built with the latest green technology and very well done. They would build you a brand new 1600 sq. ft. for $168,000 or right at $200,000 for one on the water. They said they are continually stocking the lakes and we saw people fishing. D'Linda said if we decided to winter here this would be the place, I have to admit it seemed to be an exceptional value. You could have a very nice place right on the water for less than a large motorhome.

Well it is about time to move out, we'll go get our oil changed downtown then head for Tucson, and hopefully we can stay south of the could weather.

PS Don is still wearing his bracelet.