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Speaking of Pollen...

I got back last evening from a 10 day road trip with my buddy Doris. She lost her DH in January and wanted to go to visit her brother and his wife in Litchfield Park, AZ, but didn't want to drive by herself. She did want to get used to travelling in the van. So, we took off early on April 1. We had decided to take I-10 on the trip out. We stopped the first night in Fort Stockton, TX. The second night we were in Benson, AZ. Early the next morning, we drove to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, where we wandered for almost 3 hours, enthralled with the vegetation and animals on display. On the way back to I-10, we drove through the Saguaro National Park and admired these amazing cacti. We reached Litchfield Park by a roundabout drive through another park with more wonderful scenery, that went around the huge "city" of Phoenix and its surrounding cities. We stayed until early Sunday morning. Doris's brother Ron and his wife Susie were great hosts. They took us to the botanical gardens, up the mountain to the "anntenna farm" to see the views (about 100 miles), to the Wigwam Resort for breakfast one morning (they have wonderful bronzes in the lobby and halls, I spotted a Remington and a Russell and others), to the Phoenician Resort for high tea with Susie's sister Patsy (her spouse has severe dementia, but is still charming--he and Ron went to the coffee shop for a late lunch), a day in Sedona (where I got a prezzie for DH--he likes fossils, so got him a fossil fish in slate), and out for pizza at the Organ Stop, where they have the largest Wurlitzer theater organ in the world. I did visit one quilt shop, I think in Litchfield, and got two yards of fabric to share with my quilt group here (cut 6" squares to hand out, and hope that they will take up the idea as my northern group did--take a trip, bring back fabric to share, and eventually have a nifty scrap quilt), one yard with petroglyphs, one with Kokopelli, so in an Arizona theme. It was such a fun trip. On the way home, we decided to take back roads. The first day, we went up through Apache Junction, on up a scenic route through the mountains and Apache reservation, ending up in Silver City, NM for the night, then on through the mountains to Deming, NM, back on I-10 to Van Horn, TX, then off the expressway on 90 to Alpine, TX for the night. For a lot of that day and most of the next, we followed the railroad tracks that go from San Antonio to Los Angeles. We didn't see the Amtrack train. Did see lots of Union Pacific freight trains, though. Got home before 6 pm yesterday, tired but happy. DH and our furry kids were glad to see me, and I was so glad to see them, too.

Pat in Rockport, TX

posted by Pat in Rockport, TX @ 10:50 AM