Tucson, Arizona

We left San Antonio on Thursday, May 4^th, and headed towards Tucson. We stopped at a rest area along I-10 in Texas. It was a beautiful day and we enjoyed a picnic lunch at a shaded picnic table.

We arrived in Tuscon at the Davis-Monthan AFB family campground and had our pick of campsites. We chose one adjacent to a nice cactus garden and a great view of the Air Force “boneyard.”

We spent our two weeks in Tucson just hanging out and fixing a couple of things on our motorhome. We noticed the morning we left from Las Cruces, NM for Tucson that our windshield wipers didn't work. Good thing it didn’t rain on the trip or we would have had to pull over. I checked a fuse, a circuit breaker and a relay associated with the windshield wipers and it turned out to be a bad relay.

Our big problem was our clothes dryer had stopped working. It had been broke for a couple of weeks. The dryer is under a one-year warranty and I had already contacted the service department and they had shipped me two new thermostats. They would also pay the labor to install the new parts.

We made arrangements for a mobile RV service to come to our motorhome to take a look. They charged $50 for a service call and $100/hour for labor to work on it. The big problem was the stackable washer & dryer were in a built-in hardwood cabinet that had to be taken apart in order to remove the dryer so it could be worked on. It took me an entire day to take that darn cabinet apart (to save $$ vs. paying the service technician). The problem turned out to be a faulty AC power cord which caused the thermostats to go bad.

We left Tucson on Saturday, May 20^th, and headed towards Las Cruces for an overnight stay. We drove to Albuquerque this past Sunday and the Kirtland AFB family campground for a two-week stay. We have a nice view of the mountains to the northeast.         

Steve & Julie Cornelius 

South Texas

We enjoyed our visit to the Rio Grande Valley with Julie’s sister Cindy and brother-in-law Terry. We got our house washed and waxed for $145, a bargain and less than half the price we paid to have it done in Southern California.

Friday night we went to a pool party at the RV resort. We enjoyed meeting other residents of the resort that are living there year round.

On Saturday we went out to dinner with Terry & Cindy and their friends Don & Claudia. Then we went to the McAllen Events Center to see the Broadway musical “Dirty Dancing”.

The six of us went to Progreso, Mexico on Sunday for lunch. It’s easy to park on the U.S. side of the border and simply walk across the bridge over the Rio Grande river to Progreso. It’s a small border town with restaurants, gift shops, many dentist offices, and pharmacies. After lunch we all went and got pedicures at a nail salon for $12. Men and women were in the salon getting manicures and pedicures.

We drove back to San Antonio on Monday and were lucky enough to get a campsite in the Lackland AFB FamCamp. We had a nice shady site and it is so convenient to see Julie’s mom at Blue Skies of Texas, only 3 miles away and the price was right too at only $20/night.

Yesterday we enjoyed visiting and dinner with old friends Buzz, Ellen and Peggy out at Blue Skies of Texas. We hadn’t seen them all in almost a year.

We left San Antonio this morning and are headed to Tucson to spend a couple of weeks. 

Steve & Julie Cornelius