Long tiring day!

Captains Log September 25 – Not a fun day! Time to head south to Tucson and we were up and ready earlier than normal. As we were ready to leave Bill couldn't find his RV key ring. Crap! We looked all over inside and outside and he checked in his truck – no keys! I even checked inside each compartment in case he set them down. So as we left he he stopped at the office to let them know that we lost a set of keys in case they were turned in.

We had arranged to stop at the storage facility also owned by the RV park to use their compressor to air up our tires. I pulled in and Bill was no where to be seen! He left in front of me. So I waited on the driveway and he finally drove up and checked in with the office and they let us through the gate.

The good news was he drove back to the round about and found his keys. Apparently he left them on the back of his truck and they had been run over! So we put that issue aside and he started on the first tire and the pin in the valve got stuck and the air was pouring out. So we put the cap back on and he called his brother Bryan who was in Cottonwood at a car show. He said he'd stop and get a part to repair it and so it was at least 45 minutes before he arrived. The part worked and they finally got that tire done and checked all the others. By then it was starting to rain, crap!

We thanked Bryan profusely for leaving the show and coming to our rescue and he said the show would close down anyway due to the rain. So we got on I-17 and headed south.

It was a slow drive between the curvy mountainous road in the rain to boot! Then it takes forever to drive thru Phoenix. We had a choice of 2 directions to take and as luck would have it we took the wrong one and it had closed lanes and a detour. Geez! I thought we would never get to Tucson! The rain cleared and at least we didn't have to get unhooked and parked in the rain.

Once we settled in we drove over to Bill's sister Carole's and had a nice visit with her and her daughter Nanci. The storm hit and we sat out on the porch in the cool breeze with the tapping on the roof of the rain. We've been to Tucson many, many times in 33 years and this is the first time it has ever rained. They get bad flash floods here but this was a new thing for us. Luckily when we drove back to the RV park it was down to a drizzle and no deep water to pass through!