Arrived back at Casa Grande on January 6th
Jasmine gave Ken this map for Christmas, we stuck in on the side of the slide out. you can see we have a few more places to travel to so we can fill in the map.
We moved into the site next to the one we originally had. so still close to the other Canadians we had made friends with
We learned a little history, dating back to the 1400's when there used to be a river near by here before the dam arrived in 1920. The settlers of this area built irrigation systems to grow food and develop a community that support about 2000 people.
As you can probably see, the weather was not great, a bit windy and cool with some rain added in every once in a while. But we decided to check out some near by ruins.
I thought it was strange to see these grand cactus in amongst all this other vegetation.
I think the clouds are passing by and blue skies are on the way. Just in time for pickleball tomorrow.
We are actually getting better at pickleball. These people play everyday now. We are not that hardcore, golfing and other things take up some of our time.....We were asked to be the token Canadians on a trivia team. We came in last but not because of us. lol
We went for a bike ride today (January 10th) and found this park, lots of green space and paths. There were soccer fields, baseball, basketball, covered picnic areas, thought it was great for MM.
We decided to head over to Apache junction to go for a hike and came across this old gold mining town. Lots of cowboys and gun fights on the streets
And lots of characters to enjoy
Cowboys 10 comandments
We drove up the road to get to this mountain and that's the area we went hiking.
even these Jumping cholla grow huge. ken went to kick a loose piece off to the side of the path and it just grabbed onto his shoe, just stuck there.
Not only are the cactus huge but some took to hugging...lol
After our hike, we drove further down the Apache trail (scenic route) which was a very windy, with lots of hair pin turns, to get to this lake. The scenery, mountains and valleys was beautiful but did not capture well on camera.
January 14th
We are getting into a routine here. golfing, pickleball, bike riding. And let's not forget laundry, grocery shopping, but there is also dinners, card bingo, pool and pools, now that the days are really warm again.
We went for a bike ride and got a bit lost in an industrial section but did manage to find our way back to downtown to grab an ice cream.
I took this picture with my phone in a holder affixed to the bike while I was riding behind. I thought is would be blurry because of all the movement but I think it turned out pretty good. May try it again when there is something interesting to photograph. Not saying that Ken's not interesting....
When we sat down in the park to enjoy our ice cream, all these cats and kittens came out of the wood work.
Just another nice evening ...
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