Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Well, here it is, nearly a week since I posted something.  We have arrived at our park, and now we only have 18 hours in our day!  It certainly seems that way! 

                                             This is our clubhouse, as we drive into the park. 

And this is our spot for the next four months.  There is a house on each side of us, but we still have a very large space.  We did get our motor home washed, so now we can put our rug out, and set up our chairs, so it looks like we will be staying a while.  I have started my quilting lessons on Monday and will go again on Thursday's, we started our geo-cache group caching on Tuesday's and our group hike on Wednesday's. 

This is our hiking group today.  I chose this picture, because Jim's sister, Barb has a friend visiting and she did 'somewhat' follow our blog, as we traveled this fall.  We took her geo-caching yesterday and she's hooked, so that was fun! Mary is on the far right, and the rest of us have hiked together since we've been coming to AZ.  We did 6.5 miles with 614 feet elevation today.  They will get progressively harder and longer. 

After we finished our hike, we drove a short distance to the Salt River, where we sometimes see the wild horses that roam out here.  This lone stallion was just standing in the water and didn't seemed to  be bothered by anyone.  We left him, and drove back toward our park, and we spotted another small herd, a short distance off the road.

This small group of horses has a young foal, and this is the best shot I could get.  We usually don't see them this little at this time of the year.  February and March are the most prevalent times to see young foals.  This is a winter past-time to take our chairs and sit by the Salt River and watch the horses. 

This photo is taken from our motor home, looking west at the sunset!  We will end our blog at this time, and we hope you have enjoyed coming along with us.  We've had a wonderful trip, and now it's time to settle in and catch up with the many people we have met in The Valley.