Saturday, December 17th - Tucson to Phoenix

 Lots of traffic today but we are wedged in to our spot at Covered Wagon RV Park in Phoenix. It is supposed to be a Big Rig friendly park. NOT!!! Kathy did a masterful job of getting our coach backed into a spot. She knocked a couple of grapefruit off a tree getting in, getting out may be even more of a challenge.

Yesterday I mentioned the Super C coach from with Alaska plates, below is a photo I took as we left the campground this morning.

The Pima County Fairground had propane available so we topped of our tank before leaving. We burned 12.9 gallons over the past 19 days compared to 27.9 during the previous 17 days parked at Kelsey's.

We filled up with fuel when we hit the I10, $4.33/gal. With all the strong headwinds, and hills, our fuel mileage has only been 6.0 & 6.4 the last two fill ups, compared to 8.1 the previous fill up. We will top off before getting into California where fuel prices appear to increase a dollar a gallon when you cross the state line. It is 270 miles from here to the campground in Cathedral City, CA.

We were surprised to see a fair amount of cotton. We just never associated Arizona with growing cotton. The yellow is bales of cotton.

The rest area south of Phoenix where we stopped for lunch.

We did associate Arizona with cactus. Looking the other way from the parking lot.

The cactus on the hillside to the left in the above photo.

The cactus near the top of the peak to the right.

Further down the road a hillside full of cactus.

Having coffee on the patio.

The Weather Channel app forecasts tonight and tomorrow's lows as 45 & 39 here in Phoenix. It is so good to not have any worries about below freezing temperatures.

Some of my daily Old Testament reading has been in Psalms. Psalms 105:26-37 retells the story of the plagues God sent on Egypt. I was reading the New Living Translation. Verse 37 reads "But he brought his people safely out of Egypt, loaded with sliver and gold; there were no sick or feeble people among them." Certainly there were some sick and feeble among the 2 million(?) Jews in Egypt. I'm so easily sidetracked. This is certainly not something that has any significant impact on the Good News. The NET Bible translates 105:37b as "none of his tribes stumbled." while the NIV translates it as "and from among their tribes no one faltered." Its good to read several translations to get the better feel for Scripture.

God is good. I pray that He blesses you and yours.