Back on the Road

I know it's been too long between posts, but there wasn't a lot going on in our lives for April and most of May. My niece Kinsey had a major roll in her high school production of Guys and Dolls so we went to see that. It was fabulous and Kinsey wowed the crowd with her solo. A few weeks later, another niece, Aubrey, graduated from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. I drove up with a bunch of the family for that wonderful event. It brought tears to my eyes, I was so proud of her.

In early May, Tom's brother Jim and his family, along with Tom's mom and her friend Larry came down to Scottsdale for a vacation. They were there over my birthday and we met up with them, Shannon and Pat, and my brother and sister-in-law at the Elephant Bar Restaurant for a huge birthday dinner. Great fun.

Temperatures were starting to warm up and by mid-May we were quite often in the 90's and on May 20th it reached 100. We left Arizona on May 21st.

We stayed a couple of nights in the Palm Springs area, which is a place we really enjoy. Then the plan was to stop over for the night in Bakersfield on our way to Sacramento. One night became two when we had to find a CAT dealer to fix a bad injector in the engine. Thankfully the people at Quinn CAT were nice enough to bump us ahead of another job and got us on the road again quickly.

We hung out in Sacramento for a week, visiting with various friends we have in the area. We were a little surprised to realize how many people we know who live there. In our short week, we didn't even manage to see everyone we would have liked to.

Then it was on to Rogue River, Oregon where my mom and step-dad live. We are staying at the Valley of the Rogue State Park, which is a beautiful park with lots of gorgeous trees. It's all so green. I love it. I'd missed this in Arizona.

We'll be here for another week, then we'll head further north.