As we prepared to leave Eloy Arizona for the last time, I was checking the air in the 5^th wheel tires and discovered that the inside of the rear tires had excessive wear and had to change one of them then head for Tucson where I bought a replacement.

We camped at the Pima county Fairgrounds and visited the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum and enjoyed the very well-built park. There were a lot of different trails and exhibits from desert plants to animals, reptiles, several botanical gardens and an aquarium. There was also a walk-in aviary as well as a humming bird aviary and Raptor free flight demonstrations. This was well worth the visit.

We had lunch and headed a short distance to the Saguaro National Park Visitor Center and drove the loop scenic road, which started out paved and became a dirt/gravel road. I was interesting and we did a short desert walk among the tall Saguaro Cacti. As we departed, we agreed that of all the National Parks and Monuments we have visited that this one is our least favorite but glad we visited.

    

We arrived in Eloy Arizona on October 29 2018 and are getting ready to return to Ohio.

This has been an interesting winter Arizona, like the rest of the country, has had unusual weather, it has been cold, windy and rainy. We wore our winter coats most every morning, jackets in the afternoons and when the sun started to set it got mighty chilly about 4:30 PM every day. The good news is there was no snow or freezing temperatures.

Before we left Ohio, I had an eye exam and found I had cataracts and the new glasses did not help. I made an appointment and found I also have macular pucker in both eyes as well as the cataracts. The doc recommended just doing the left eye starting with the cataract. That was finally done in February and there was not enough time here to get the second surgery so it will wait until Ohio.

We did not do much sightseeing while in Arizona. 

We did travel to Tortilla Flats, nice scenic drive, and visited a wonderful G-scale train layout at the Superstition Mountain Museum Rail Road that had so much detail it looked real.

I helped a couple of friends with work on their campers and constructed a stained-glass window for a friend’s 5^th wheel that will be installed when we meet them in Hot Springs Arkansas on our way home. I also made a stained-glass panel for our pantry door.

Karen has been busy reading, coloring, visiting friends and Thursday night Bingo having a few Bingos probably wining enough to pay for the games and having fun. We have been visiting, with friends.

When we leave, we have an appointment in Cochise Arizona to have disc brakes installed on the camper and we will be visiting a few more National Parks, Saguaro near Tucson, Big Bend in southern Texas and Hot Springs, Arkansas. We plan on spending a week in the Pigeon Forge area then head home.