Old Town Scottsdale

 

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Moving day from Gold Canyon to Scottsdale was uneventful.  You know by now how much we like uneventful travel days.  It means everything went just as planned without any unexpected or unwanted problems.  Freeways were fairly light.  I pulled the ATV trailer and Terry drove the motorhome.  It was a short drive to the Scottsdale Elks.  We much prefer the Scottsdale Elks over the Tempe Elks even though the Tempe one has FHU at site.  The Elks in Scottsdale has a dump on the property but just not at the sites.  The sites themselves are huge and have water and electricity for $15 a night.  That’s a great deal.

We had hooked up the trailer with the quads on it the night before.  This was our first at pulling the trailer with more than just the one ATV on it.  This time we had two or an additional 700 pounds.  I hear guys say all the time that they pulled this or pulled that and couldn’t even tell the thingamajig was behind them.  I’m not sure if that’s bragging or what but I’ll tell you one thing.  I could certainly tell there was an extra 700 pounds on that trailer.  Now I’m beginning to think a little about pulling it more than the 41 miles that I did on Sunday.   Not so sure it’s going to be fun. Not so sure I’m going to like that at all.

Monday evening we met Jim and Sandie at Joe’s Real BBQ.  Joe’s has the best brisket in town.  Matter of fact, they have the best brisket in lots of towns.  This restaurant is rated number 7 in the nation for barbecue.  The three owners of this restaurant also own Joe’s Farm Grill which has been featured on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.  It was a great evening, a great meal and a wonderful time with great friends.

On Tuesday I picked up my sewing machine for the third time. This time I could tell they had actually tested the stitching since a sample of it was still in the machine.  That’s a good thing.  However, the embroidery still isn’t aligning like it should.  Not so sure what I’m going to do about it.

Since we were close to Old Town Scottsdale, Terry and I  decided to have lunch there on Tuesday. As is typical in areas like this, there were many souvenir shops selling the same souvenirs.  However, Scottsdale isn’t entirely typical.  It may have lots and lots of t-shirts and treasures to take home as souvenirs but some of the treasures found there come with a steep price tag.  Scottsdale has a reputation all it’s own.  You can guess what the reputation is by some of the car dealers within a few blocks of where our RV is parked.  We pass by real cars for sale --- Maserati, BMW, Bentley, Ferrari, Lotus.  Recognize those names?   They aren’t the names we’re used to seeing on the streets we’ve lived on.

 

We did have fun checking out some of the little shops but ended up walking away without anything other than the food we still had in our stomach from lunch. What we really did enjoy was that the ride to town was only a couple miles instead of the long drive we had to take going to town from the park we had stayed at on the other side of Gold Canyon.  What a nice difference!

This morning was an early one.  Thus, the reason we moved into Scottsdale instead of heading on out of the Phoenix area altogether.  Terry had an early morning flight to South Dakota.  Our vehicle licenses expire on the last day of November.  We kind of put it off and put it off and put it off.  We could have just renewed online but by the time we had put it off so long, the ten day period you can renew online had already passed.   However, this wasn’t so bad since Terry wanted special plates anyway.  He had been saying for a couple months he was just going to fly in and get it taken care of. That’s what he did.  I’ll pick him up at the airport tonight with mission accomplished.

Anyone looking for a new pair of boots?  Check these out.  The pair on the left is only $1100.00 a pair and the pair on the right skyrockets to $1200.00 a pair.  If you’re interested, let me know and I’ll tell you just what store you can find them in.

 

We had figured we would be pulling out Thursday morning for Quartzsite.  However, we’ve been told a mighty wind storm is heading that way.  I guess we’ll just sit it out for one more day.  We can leave just as easily on Friday as we could have on Thursday.  Quartzsite isn’t going anyplace.  It’ll still be there.

‘Tis life on the road.