Heading East! (Benson, AZ)

Today's the day. Took us longer than planned to get out of Mesa Spirit, with everyone coming over to tell us good-bye and wish us well. We are going to miss everyone!

Once we did get out of the park, we stopped in Mesa to fill up with propane before driving the 167 miles south to the Escapees Saguaro Co-op RV Park in Benson, AZ.

On our way there, we went by the section of I-10 where the huge pile-up took place yesterday. They still were cleaning up. There was an upside down burned up semi in the median with only the steel belts left of it's tires. On the west side of the road were two more burned up semis along with a bulldozer pile of vehicular debris. The road was a bit burned up, but not to the extent we expected. Yesterday, they closed I-10 for hours, until approx 8:30PM. Again, we thank God that we weren't involved in this and we pray for those who were.

We safely arrived in Benson, and God answered our prayers by providing us with a site (vs boondocking). We'd been calling the park for a week and this is the first available site they've had for us. We had planned to stay at another park if a site hadn't been available.

So, we got into our site, started getting set up and gave our Full-timing Class of '06 friends, Dave & Diane, a call to let them know that we were able to get a site in the park with them. We'll meet up with them at "Happy Hour". Our site has great views of the mountains, as it is on the lowest level of sites and right across from a desert field.

4PM - Happy Hour. We headed to the clubhouse, eager to see Dave & Diane. Gotta love this lifestyle, meeting up with friends on the road. It was good to see them and we enjoyed catching up with them, as well as meeting other fellow Escapees.

Once Happy Hour was over, we parted ways to have dinner and then they came over to our RV to visit with us further. All in all, a very good day!