After a day & night of rain we arrived at the Pinal County Fairgrounds in Casa Grande, Az. Along with another 156 RVs. Nick Russell the host greeted us at the gate and said follow the volunteer parking crew that will park you. Spaces are in the dirt; we consisdered our selfselves lucky not to be parked in puddles of standing water & mud.
This was Sunday and the final day of a gourd festival that was going on before our rally started on Monday. Many gourd artists had their decorated gourds on sale. Didn't know you could decorate a gourd in so many ways. An interesting thing for me was the young farmer that had undecordated gourds foresale whose last name was, "Werutz". Was able to visit with him & I knew two of his uncles: Vern & Horward; both still alive & doing well.
Monday afternoon our rally started. Nick & Terry are full time RVers that put on two rallys a year. One in the West & one in the East US. Nicks aka as, "bad Nick" is the MC...wife Miss Terry is the organizer. Nick is a retired newspaper man who still writes a paper for RVers.We attended several of the rally seminars from photograhy to the final chapter. Each evening there were door prizes and I mean a bunch. My lucky winning was quilt patches. Good friend of mine is Barbara Cozby; Barbara I am saving the patches for you. Thursday was the rally highlight; a pizza dinner then the: Cactus Queen Contest...boy did we have the belly laughs. Hope my photos will post. Had a good time at the rally.
Nick promised that next year's rally will be held at a better fairground. We did have problems but they were over come. Mud, no water for a day & electrical problems. Total cost for the rally & parking fees cost $123...what a barigan.
Casa Grande now with a population of 40,000. It's been 10 years since I was in Casa Grande loading a truck load of seed oats bound for Italy. Then Casa Grande was a small farming town of farmers & farm labors. Now every thing you need is here from the large box stores, outlet malls,
golf courses and many snowbirds. What a nice place to winter. We drove thru the: Palm Creek RV Resort" a beautiful resort with over a 500 sites. Runs about $1,000 a month for a space with a 3 par golf course and a full line of other activities.
Well we have moved on...next time Tucson. Read about our GPS experience and meeting up with travel friends from our trip to India.
Now I am going to try & include some photos.
Until next wish you were here: See ya down the road. Roger
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