Letter from Barb and Laura

Hello all!  Wow, what a couple of  weeks we have had since Oct 17th!  Our trip down to Arizona from Washington was absolutely wonderful.  We caravan ed with a very dear friend of ours and together we have seen breath taking scenery along the way of our 1500 mile journey.  So very diverse.  From mountains and forests to scrub desert, to rocky mesas and open farm land with cattle grazing.  We've seen herds of elk, antelope, deer, and much more.  We drove to Portland , to Boise , Salt Lake City , and made special stops at Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks .  We then went on to the Grand Canyon and then down to Mesa for our RVing Women's convention. 
The convention is like an annual family reunion of RVing women from all over the US and Canada !  This year was the largest number in attendance... we had around 500 women and 300 rigs.  We learned so much at the conference with all the classes and seminars on maintenance, safety, electrical systems, plumbing, troubleshooting, cleaning tips, fire safety, etc.  It is an incredible week of "empowering powerful women" to do what we do so well.... take our RVs out and play without fear and ignorance in handling them and taking care of them on our own!  Our minds are spinning with all we heard and hope to have assimilated into action!  We played a lot there too with all our great friends, "old and new."
We are now settled into our next location in sunny Apache Junction, AZ at the Superstition Mountain Resort.  Very very nice.  May even be enticed to do this each year for several months.We are so thankful to our RVW friends, Sue Ellen and Norma who allowed us to rent their lot for the month of November, as they were unable to be down here yet
All is well, we are very happy and very busy.  Going to be starting up with pickleball games, golf, Tai Chi, line dancing, swimming, playing poker and mexican train (dominoes), billiards, desert hiking, and who knows what all.  Gee it's exhausting being retired!  So many of our friends snowbird here in this place and so it's just one big party after another.  The key for us will be to temper ourselves as we can't do it all, (but you know we'll try!)  We feel very welcome and fit right in
We have family and friends down here in the Phoenix metro area that we will be connecting with over this month also.  We are so looking forward to that.....
That's about it for now.Love to all and happy November.Hope the sunshine reaches you all! Laura and Barb