We're still humming

The last two months have flown by so quickly! It has been a busy time for us and especially for our son and daughter-in-law. Their second son, Dylan, was born on October 11th. He weighed in at 7 pounds 0 ounces. We've spending most of our time with the family and helping out by looking after their son David. It has been fun to do that as we've been able to visit venues that we usually don't go to anymore: we visited the Vancouver Aquarium in Stanley Park, and made a trip to the Vancouver Zoo a few weeks ago. This is all fun stuff and we enjoyed it just as much as David. Plus it was quality time spent with our grandson.

We moved from one campground to another in Chilliwack as the previous campground didn't have 50 amp service and we had to manage our electrical usage too much. Also the site we were in was too treed and, while our internet connection was fine, our TV connection through the satellite wasn't able to find a connection. The new site, about 3 miles down the road has 50 amp and when we set up the satellite we had internet and TV right away! The campground is called Royalwood RV and Golf Resort and is affiliated with a golf course next door (bonus!).

The weather is starting to cool down here at nights and we've had either the heat pump or the propane furnace on quite often, especially during the evening. It also rains a lot here which also keeps the weather on the cool side. It is making us think more about the warm weather in the south that we'll be heading to shortly.

We have started planning our trip to Arizona. We expect to be leaving on November 9th and arriving in Apache Junction by the 15th. It looks like we'll be mostly travelling on I-5 until we get to Bakersfield, CA area when we'll move over to Hwy 99 which parallels I-5 and then head east on I-10 to Phoenix. We have an idea of where we'll be stopping, mostly following the route our friends Dave and Shirley took when they left last week from Vancouver Island. They are at the same Resort in Apache Junction as us. Next we have to figure out if there are some sites to see along the way in order to make the trip more interesting. I expect we'll search the web to see what might be worth doing. It's always fun to start planning the next trip and to be on the road again. It doesn't hurt that we're heading for progressively warmer weather as well:-)