Springfield Projects

In case you wondered where we are, we are at Jim's sister's house. Doing a few small projects for her. After being on the RV for so long we needed to do some real "home improvements".

Special Shape Balloons

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WOW! If the Balloon Fiesta is not on your "bucket list" it is a must see.

We have gone over morning and night for all the flights and glows. We are having great fun, but alas will leave tomorrow and will really be heading home....slowly, but heading East

Balloon Fiesta

We feel like kids in a candy store. Where do you look first, which do you take pictures of. You can assist the balloonist to get up in the air by holding baskets, lines or what ever they need. What fun.

Tomorrow the special shapes fly. Hope to see more, get cards and have a great time.

Rained today so all event cancelled.

Canyon De Chelly

Last year we missed this National Monument because it was out of the way. This year we decided to go there. We stayed in a free NPS Campground, took a tour of both Canyon del Muerto and Canyon De Chelly with a Najavo Guide for 3+ hours.

When we came out we also drove the South Rim drive to get a photo of the canyon from the top.

Now we are in Alberqueque moving to the Balloon field tomorrow. Batteries are charged and I can hardly wait to shoot some photos. The wind is blowing up to 50MPH gusts.

Supposed to get cold tonght and hopefully the wind dies down

Verde Valley, Arizona

Wow, what a beautiful place. High desert and the sky is blue and the ground is very dry and sandy. We went touring some places we missed the last time we were in Sedona. The most interesting to me was Montezuma's Well. That is where the Indian women went to give birth and rest for 2 weeks before returning to the fields to work.

The park we are in is on the Verde River and there aren't very many people here. We may decide to "veg" out for 10 days before heading to the balloon fest.

Today it actually rained, not enough to start any flash flooding, but enough to wash the dust off everything. Night temperatures in low 60's days into 90+. But it is dry air (they all say that)

"Lucky"

Tonight we are in Bakersfield, Ca. Did you know they have Trader Joes here? Good thing we saw it and decided we needed some 2 buck chuck. We un-did the Escape and set off to shop.
(Bet you are holding your breath to see what happened this time), well the tire pressure is low light was on...... so we checked and sure enought a screw was imbedded in the side wall of the tire. A nice youg man drew us a map to a tire store and of course it is a hazard so not covered under warrantee. A hundred plus dollars and 1 hour of our time and we are all set to go on one new tire.
Now the lucky part.....if we had been towing, we would not have seen the light on, the tire would have probably blown and damaged the rim and the car and we would be stranded out in the Mojave desert NOT A PRETTY THOUGHT!
no pictures, wasn't expecting an event to occur.

Hailey Joy

We were hoping that our nephew's baby would be born when we were out here so we could see her. Hailey arrived (Breech) by C/S Thursday. First time grandparents are doing fine as are the parents.

We will be off to the desert Monday