Chanute to Casa Grande (and in between)

Our travels from Liberal, KS to Albuquerque were put on hold for a day as we sat tight after a 3.5" rainfall on wednesday night had things pretty flooded around here.(I was told it was closer to 4-4.5" in Liberal) We took a ride in to town just to have breakfast and survey the area. And a good thing that we did. Right up Rt 54 from the restaurant that we had breakfast at, the road was basically closed....

RT 54, downtown. Definitely a drainage problem here.....

So, we spent another day in Kansas. A wise idea. We elected to make the trip all the way in to Albuquerque, a day of almost 400 miles. Fortunately all went well and we arrived at Enchanted Trails RV Park and ended up with same spot that our friends Dave and Kathy had prior to Balloon Fiesta. Checked in to RVillage and noted some "friends" - Ron & Kathy were also checked in to the park. We did meet up and spend some time with them. We treated ourselves the first night to a Seafood Buffet at the RT 66 Casino Resort just a short piece down the road from the park.....

Food was good, service excellent. Atmosphere.........just not our kind of thing.

While in Albuquerque, we had some business to take care of - like getting to Bank of America so that I could get a cashiers check to pay sales tax to register our new trailer and then a trip to Trader Joe's  for much needed "supplies".  After a nights rest, we were off the next day for Deming, NM and the Escapee Park Dreamcatcher RV Park. Coincidentally, our friends Loren and Bonnie who we met in Liberal, KS and then saw at Enchanted Trails in Albuquerque, were in a park right up the street from us. We enjoyed Dreamcatcher and especially the daily happy hours at 4. Made some new friends there - Ted and Karen. Also met some RVillage friends- Larry & Clara, in fact when I first started using Village, they were the first "friends" that I had. Small world. The happy hours there were a lot of fun, especially listening to the 2 people that were there living and traveling in Casitas. We thought an Airstream was confining......

Mary with Ted and Karen

From Dreamcatcher in Deming, it was off to Benson and Butterfield RV Resort.

Our spot at Benson

Kind of amazing, but our friends from Liberal, KS, Loren and Bonnie, were right up the street from us at Cochise Terrace. I don't know who was following who, but this makes 4 parks that we were at or near each other. Will be the same in January, as the park we are staying in in Yuma is right next door to their park.
After getting settled in, the plan was to totally surprise our friends Dick & Patti - which we did, excuse me, Mary did. Right after we got settled, she walked down to their rig, knocked on the door and invited them over to happy hour at our rig. Well, it turned into a party of sort, as Keith and Dorann from Canada and Jerry and Kitty from ND joined us and Dick & Patti. We really enjoyed showing off our new Home. Everyone was impressed and glad for us. On friday afternoon it was happy hour time at the clubhouse......

Dick in the middle of a story- he has all the women captivated!

We made plans with Dick and Patti to do our favorite breakfast restaurant on Saturday morning.......

Our favorite breakfast place

Saturday afternoon we did a happy hour over at Dick & Patti's. Dorann and Keith joined us as well as Dick & Patti's new neighbors from Ontario,  Bill and Maureen. And a good time was had by all. Sunday was time for us to pickup/packup and head out. It was off to Casa Grande. For 2 months. We have totally been on the go for almost 2 months now. It will be so good to settle down in one spot for a while. Looking forward to it.

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