Little warm in Phoenix

Phoenix - 100 degrees yesterday, 99 today but to be 108 on Sunday.  We are out of here tomorrow!

Kay Lord (Kuehnhackl) was one of my best friends when I was a senior and she a junior in Callaway, NE high school in 1960-61.  We lost touch after I graduated and went to Omaha.  Found each other on the internet back around 2000 and have kept in touch since.  She is living in Cave Creek, just north of Phoenix in a guest house at her daughter & son-in-law (and 6 year old grandson)'s place.  She has had quite a bit of health problems over the years, including this last year.  She lost her husband a couple years ago and is enjoying the winters especially since she had lived most of her married life in Bettendorf, IA.

After visiting her we drove around a bit of Phoenix.  Wikipedia notes the metropolitan area has something just under 4 million people.  Too many people for us.  And it is a bit warm, though it is not humid.  This afternoon the TV listed the humidity at 14%.  That is a little different than the 80% humidity common in Clarinda, IA this time of year.


 We ate supper at a Panda Express and came back to the trailer.  Today we drove over a hundred miles and never left the Phoenix area.  We stopped by the RV Park in Apache Junction where Bev and Dave Sutter spend their winters.  Then we drove through the park where Jerry Junck has lived and called square dances for years in Messa. 

Then we drove to the Arizona State Capitol.  The original capitol is now a museum and the business of government is carried on in near buildings.

 Spent over an hour going through the rooms set us with a lot of history about the Arizona Territory and then it becoming a State in 1912.  They celebrated their centennial last year.

        This is going out the front entrance.

They had quite a lot of Memorial Display in front.

 They had stones with one of the Constitution Amendments on each of them.

Must say, was much more impressed with the State Capitol of Arizona than I was with the New Mexico Capitol.

 After we ate a late lunch Phyllis found a nail place to have some work done and I wondered over to Barnes and Noble.  I noted this heading in one of the History areas.  I thought maybe it was news from the last day or so of History, but guess it was just new books about older history.






We are heading west to Quartzite, AZ tomorrow then drop down to I 8 and head on to San Diego and spend some time.  Will visit with Kent and Karen Miles and maybe get to see 2nd cousins Tom Miles and his new wife, and Rick Miles.  Haven't contacted them,but maybe will get together some time.

Filled up with Diesel at $3.50 a gallon this afternoon.  We had paid $4.09 in Tuba City couple days ago.  Here the diesel is actually cheaper than gasoline!
Later, Lynn