Bedrock City campground near the Grand Canyon We got back from work Tuesday and Thursday we left for the grand canyon. We booked a place called Bedrock city. For those of you too young or too old to know that was the name of the Flintstone’s town and this was what was left of an old Flintstones theme park. It was run down and all but abandoned but it was still kinda cool. The rv sites were small dirt strips…
Phoenix, AZ I guess one day of golf wasn’t enough for Jamie. She was researching some golf schools for next year and came across one at the Hilton resort so she suggested we check the course out. Like I said, I’ve created a monster. But far be it for me to turn down a round of golf so off we went. This was probably the most difficult course I’ve played all year. Many blind shots and allot of hills and…
Phoenix, AZ We started today by checking off another of my lists having lunch at one of Adam Richman’s best sandwich of America places. This one is called Los Reyes de la Torta. The sandwich he rated was called their Torta. It had ham, melted cheese, pork sirloin, breaded beef, omelet, sausage, Mexican sausage, tomato, onions, avocado, chipotle sauce, refried beans and potatoes ruffles on the side. That sandwich was insane. I have to admit of all the sandwiches on…
Phoenix, AZ Wednesday we played golf at Southern Dunes gc, checking off my top 100 golf course in the US for Arizona. The course was about an hour south of Phoenix and was very nice and a great price, 69 each, considering it’s high rating. We paired up with another guy who was great to play with. Even met him and his wife for dinner at the True Grit tavern named after John Wayne. Apparently Wayne owned allot of property…
Phoenix, AZ Friday was supposed to be a relaxing down day. We ran her all week and tomorrow it was time for her to go home so Cadence and grandma made pancakes for breakfast then we swam at the pool and came back for a little nap. The girls woke from their nap and Cadence saw a bee in the rv. I killed it and the next thing you know she sees another and another. So I go outside and…
Phoenix, AZ Thursday we went to an aquarium where you can swim with the dolphins. Jamie and Cadence went to the pool area and got fitted with life jackets then got a brief talk about dolphins. Then they went into the pool, which was a bit chilly, and meet their trainer and dolphin. Who was named Brody. Cadence wasn’t expecting such a big fish! But after a short time she stopped clinging to grandma and had a great time. She…
Wednesday we went to the Phoenix wildlife zoo. Cadence got to see lots of animals and got to touch and feed manta rays. She really enjoyed the petting zoo playing with and feeding the goats, sheep and llamas. She also got to go on the roller coaster. She loves roller coasters. Being a Michigan girl she’s not too fond of the Arizona heat but she survived. After the zoo we went back to the campground and spent the rest of…
Michigan Sunday Bryanna’s parents had a birthday party at their house for Cadence. So we flew to Michigan for the party plus we were bringing her back to Phoenix with us to spend the week. She looked so beautiful in her dress. They had a pinata and also an Easter egg hunt for the kids. Everyone had a great time. The next day we flew to Arizona. As usual she was a great traveler although they wouldn’t let her fly…
Sand duning in Glamis, Ca Phoenix, AZ Phoenix, AZ After we got back from work we decided to meet our friends Tiff, Lori, Jeff and Monica in Glamis, Ca for some razor riding in the sand dunes. Jeff and Monica’s spare razor was out of commission so we were gonna rent one till I found out it was $1000/day. So we did a little riding and just hung out. The pictures don’t do the dunes justice. They were huge. We…
Thursday Jamie had to go to work. I didn’t have to work till Friday but since I had to drop Jamie off I decided to go to NJ a day early and visit the kids. I fed Gigi and her and I feel asleep on the couch together. It was a nice moment. Unfortunately it ended up being a short visit as I had to go to work the next day. Trying to manage work, our trip and family visits…
I guess the LPGA tournament really got Jamie excited appt golf cuz she wanted to play both Tuesday and Wednesday. We played both days at a local course called Wigwam. We played two of their three courses. Tuesday night we went to dinner at a local German restaurant called Haus Murphy’s, which was featured on diners, dives and drive-ins. It was so so. We were also joined by my friend Roy, from Nj who I haven’t seen in probably 15…
Sunday we went to our first, and last lol, NASCAR race. It was a fun experience but that one is now ticked off our list. Colt Ford performed before the race which was fun and F-15s from Luke AFB did a fly over. We decided NASCAR fans are probably who got Trump voted in. Jim’s sister tried helping us with ticket selection since they’ve been to quite a few races. We tried to get tickets that would be out of…
Saturday we went to the Founder’s Cup LPGA tournament at Wildfire gc. We got to watch many top female golfers and got Jamie even more enthused about playing golf. Anna Nordqvist from Sweden won the tournament. We even got in free being retired military! Click on the picture above to see more pictures.
Saturday Jamie dropped me off for work and she headed to work on Sunday. I was supposed to return Tuesday but a snow storm in the northeast delayed me two days. I took some pictures of the mountains in Afghanistan. We rarely get to see them because we’re usually flying over then at night but since we were delayed that flight was flown during the daytime. Some of those peaks are almost 20,000′. Friday was St. Patrick’s day and we…
After the game we stopped at a golf store and got Jamie some new clubs. The ones she had were from China and although they said for women they were more for men and too heavy for her. Then of course we had to go out and play on Friday to try them out. Again, she played very well for a beginner and she’s really coming along. Beautiful course and beautiful day. I don’t know why some of my blog…
We finally left Tucson and headed to Phoenix. Not much of a move. Just a couple hours drove. We really enjoyed Tucson and plan to go back next winter but it was tome to move on before, God forbid, we establish roots somewhere. Found a very nice campground just west of Phoenix in Goodyear, Az. called Leaf Verde and got settled in. They have a bunch of spring training facilities here so on Thursday we went to watch the cubs…
Sunday we played golf at Tubac golf course. One of the places where they filmed the movie Tin Cup, with Kevin Costner, Jamie’s true love. Nothing really exciting about the pictures or the course except the movie was partially filmed there. But it was a nice course and we met a nice couple from Alaska that we played with. You can click on the title to see the pics.
On the 4th we went to the Desert museum and Old Tucson. First we went to the desert museum. I didn’t have very high expectations for some reason but I was pleasantly surprised and really enjoyed it. We saw wolves, coyotes, mountain lions, bobcats, ocelots, some pig thing I’ve never seen before called a Javelina, and many other animals. They also had a cool cactus garden. Never realized how many different varieties of cacti there were. After the Desert museum…
The second half of our day we went to old Tucson which is a small town built as a movie set for westerns that was used from the 40’s to the 90’s. They had a museum with all kinds of artifacts from many of the movies filmed here but I guess I didn’t take any pictures of that stuff. Oops. But there were clothes and props from the films. Lots of famous actors and actresses filmed here. There were 18…
We both went to work from Sunday to Wednesday and on Friday we went to Kartchner caves which were discovered in 1974 for an awesome cave tour. Unfortunately they don’t allow cameras so I had to download the pictures. But we saw everything I posted. In April they close a large part of the caves because this is one of the few birthing caves for bats. They have something like 2000 bats that fly nest here to have their babies….