On Wednesday, Nov 30 we spent the day at the campsite getting packed up and ready for an early departure on Thursday morning. We wanted to be leaving by 7:00 AM and since the RV Parks office doesn't open till 8:00 I checked to see if someone could be there a bit early to take our electric meter reading so we could pay off our electric bill and check out. They were very accommodating and asked me to take a picture of the meter on my phone and they would calculate my bill. It came to just under $50. so for 1 month our total was $450 rent + $50. electric + 3 tanks of 30 lb propane $51= $551 for the month. Not too bad.
We would stay here again as the campsites are very nice although probably we wouldn't stay for more than 1 week. The RV Park is located in a valley so our cell phone signal wasn't too reliable. We have T Mobile which doesn't provide the best coverage and from talking to neighbours, those with Verison had no problem. The Campground Wifi was pretty much non-existent, probably due to us being at the far end of the campground, far removed from the office. The other problem with this location is that most of the attractions are in Sedona or Cottonwood. Both are a 20-40 minute drive so you are always on the road. Not a major problem but would be nice to be a little closer to Sedona.
We had a little excitement while I was draining our holding tanks. My toe caught one of the water hoses and it tugged the faucet and the pipe snapped right off. I'm not sure what the water pressure is but a geyser of water was shooting 30 feet up in the air. Scared the heck out of me. The underground water pipe is connected to a hard plastic line that extends about 3 feet up out of the ground to the faucet. Not sure if there was already a crack in the line but the torque created on 3 feet of inflexible hard plastic caused it to snap off about 6" underground. Needless to say I had the immediate attention of all the campers. They got the water turned off and after about 3 hours of digging, cutting and glueing they had a new water line set up. I was a bit embarrassed but I must say they took it all in stride.
The reason we want to be off by 7:00 is we have an appointment at Straight Line Alignment in Mesa at 10:00 on Thursday morning. The tread on the outside of one of my tires has been wearing and I'm thinking that an alignment is due. A travel day is the perfect time to have this done as long as we can get in and have the job done and still leave in time to check in at our next destination. It takes about 4 hours for the alignment so that should get us checked in by about 3:00 and still have time for Happy Hour after we get set up.
While the trailer was in the shop we had 4 hours to kill. We stopped at Camping World and made a few purchases and then headed to a nearby mall that we had frequented the last time we were here. Lori went into the Barnes & Noble while Charli and I went for a walk. Then we stopped for lunch at one of the restaurants who had outside seating. Now we only had 2 more hours to kill. We ended up driving out to the Gold Canyon RV Park and got all the paper work done to check in. That would speed up the process when we came back with our trailer. Next we went to the car wash down the road. We visited here a number of time on our last visit as they have one of the wash bays converted to a dog wash. Charli had become much like Pig Pen of Charlie Brown fame. Every time we patted her a cloud of dust would appear. It was now about 1:30 so just enough time to drive back to Mesa and pick up the trailer.
The results of the alignment were not surprising. All of the tires were out. Both the camber and toeing although the one wheel where the tire was showing extreme wear was obviously the worst. I had wanted to replace all the tires next summer with better quality rubber and now I can do so without worrying about premature wear.
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| A couple of hard frosts and the leaves are falling like rain |
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| Hard to see but a couple of green blurs in the picture are more leaves falling. Kind of like a Christmas tree that has dried out. Give it a little shake and all the needles are on the floor. |
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| The leaves on the top of the trailer were just about as thick. Had to climb up on the ladder to sweep the leaves off the slides. Not sweeping them off would have resulted in the leaves being brought into the trailer when we brought the slides in. |
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| Our Christmas decorations at our Gold Canyon location |
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| A palm tree with the neighbours lemon tree right behind it. |
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| Our street with Superstition Mountain in the background. |
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| The Lemon tree loaded with fruit just needing a bit more time to ripen. We thought they were limes so cut one off to add to our Rum & Coke. Tasted pretty good even if they weren't limes. |
We have been here a couple of days now and are settling in to the rhythm of the park. A few walks, trip to the gym, a steam and a trip to REI to get some new hiking shoes. Off to the Outlet Mall on Monday, some Yoga, Pickleball, some swimming and Photography club.
Looking forward to our month here.
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