HI DI HO Everyone!
Well gang I'm writing to you from The Distant Drums RV Resort in Camp Verde, Arizona! It's 102 degrees outside and bright and sunny!
And I keep saying to myself........HOLY %@!%! We just sold everything (cept the house, it's still on the market) and up and frickin' moved to Arizona from Minnesota! emoticon I still can't believe we actually did it!
Been busy getting a P.O. Box, getting registered and all that hurray stuff.......
Friday sons gets his dorm room and on Saturday we all have an orientation thing.
Our campground is actually about 50 miles from son's college........ONE, because his College town is Prescott, and it's higher in the mountains and so gets colder and more snow....(NOT good when living in an RV!)
And we are close enough to come have dinner with or have MOM do the laundry.......but far enough to give son his space!
This is taken from out my front window...
Sunset taken on the way to son's college....
And in the area.......
Montezuma Castle National Monument is about 51 miles south of Flagstaff on I-17. The castle is a well-preserved cliff dwelling built in the twelfth and thirteenth century. It is a 5-story structure built into a recess in a white stone cliff about 50 feet from the ground originally occupied by Sinagua Indians who farmed the surrounding land. A short self-guided trail takes you past the castle but it can only be viewed from the ground; tours inside the structures are not permitted.
Camp Verde, elevation 3100 feet, and 86 miles north of Phoenix was my first stop. I was looking for Fort Verde Historic Park and the story behind the Forts existence. The building shown here is one of three structures that housed army troops after a call for help was issued. The local Yavapai Indian, Dilzhe'e Apache Indian and the American settlers could not get along. In 1875 the US Army was sent to stop attacks on the settlers. After several encounters the Indian eventually surrendered and an estimated 1500 Indian were marched 180 miles away to an encampment at San Carlos, 90 miles east of Phoenix. It was an unhealthy encounter where 25 years later only 200 of these people returned to their homeland in the Verde Valley.
So anywho.......we survived.......Hubby still has to fly back to Minnesota one more time to then drive his truck down here and it's got most of our "MEMORIES" stuff in the cap!
I'll try to be on more often now......well, next week actually, after I get son in school.....
I hope you are all doing fine.......I have so very much missed you!!
LOVE YA ALL.
