The Eagle has landed - in Tucson

Bottom line - We made it safely to Tucson and life is good. Temperatures are warm, we are wearing shorts and all is well.

The day started early in Flagstaff and after our preparatory work last night we made quick work of hooking up the trailer and heading down the hill to Tucson.

Our winter home

Weather was a challenge as it was only 11 degrees when we arrived at the storage lot, but with most of the work done all I had to do was back up the Tahoe to the trailer and hook up. My hands were still pretty chilly by the time I was done because some of the work cannot be done with gloves on.

The trip to Tucson was uneventful and traffic through Phoenix was mercifully moderate for a change. Gas prices are a joy. $2.05 a gallon almost everywhere.

We arrived at Voyager Resort about 12:30 p.m. and check-in was quick and easy. Only 15 people were on the schedule for arrival today a number that will substantially increase over the next few days. Right now we have only one close neighbor in the park, but that will soon change.

Our neighbor has some spirit

After hooking up electrical, water and sewer and the most important thing - the cable television, we decided to do our grocery shopping tomorrow so we went to the resort restaurant for dinner. After dinner we took a quick walk around to make sure all our favorite things were still in place - they were - and then returned to our trailer to watch football.

There was also some major cleaning because of our little unwanted visitors to the trailer while it was in storage. They are gone and so is any evidence of them.

As per usual we always anticipate seeing our first Saguaro cactus at Bumble Bee Road on I-17 as we approached Phoenix. Although Joan through a little wrench into that by "thinking" she spotted one about 5 miles north of the road. I tried hard to convince her that it was a barrel cactus, but she is hard to knock off a notion when she thinks she is right.

I'm still going with Bumble Bee Road for the first Saguaro cactus.

Time out:7:53 a.m. (MST)
Mileage out:96041
Time in: 12:30 p.m.
Mileage in: 96322