Catching up on our travels

We have not posted any thing on our blog since November 26, 2008 just before Thanksgiving, so here goes catch-up.

We did hear from Teddy and found out that his mom passed away Thanksgiving morning. He was hurting quite a lot and we talked awhile about her and how he was doing. We decided to go down to spend a little time with him, Maria, and the children. We stayed in the Thousand Trails park just south of San Diego until after Christmas. We had Christmas diner with Teddy and his family and visited several times.

We Moved to a campground just out of Yuma, AZ and stayed three days to get some prescriptions filled then moved on to St. David, AZ. We stayed in that area for a little over three weeks at two different campgrounds. While we were there we revisited some of the places we visited last year and some places that we had never been before. We didn't get lost in Cochise Stronghold this time but we did hike a little over a mile into the mountains, round trip almost three miles. It was just as awesome as last year. We also went to the Chiricahua Mountains which were beautiful and also stopped at Ft. Bowie, an historic landmark of the Cochise conflict times. We went back to Bisbee, AZ and Douglas, AZ, a town right on the Mexico border. We went o a small western town called Gammon's Gulch where movies are made sometimes. The owners dad was a friend of several western stars of the past.
We went back to Tombstone, AZ and over to Tucson and the Sabina Canyon. Rode all the way to the back on the trolley and hiked all the way back out to the first stop which is about two miles I think. When we left Sabina Canyon we stoped at Trail Dust Town but the Pinnacle Stake House wasn't open yet and we couldn't wait till that late so we just looked around at all the history displays.

We started our eight hundred mile move to South Texas January twenty-first stopping at Little Vineyard campground in Deming, NM over night then Van Horn, TX, then our final over night stop was just out of Izonia, TX at Circle Bar Resort. It is in the Woodall directory and surprisingly was only $18.

We arrived here at Medina Lakes Thousand Trails Park January twenty-third and will be here until February tenth. We have really enjoyed the weather here and the park is full of deer. Several bucks, does, and yearlings. They are all very small compared to Tennessee white tail deer, although they are also white tail. We have made two trips to San Antonia,TX to see the Alamo and the missions that were built back in the seventh century. The history of all those missions is awesome and to see the Alamo and to actually see and hear about the history that Tennessee shares with Texas by the way , was fantastic. We went to an area of San Antonia called The River Walk. You can stroll along the river which originates from some springs. There are hotels and side-walk calf' along the walk and we ate at one that served Mexican food.

We have some pictures and I will post them later when we decide which ones to post.

PS
Since the Titans didn't make it through the play-offs and the two teams that did are also my favorite ( I have been a Steelers fan since Terry Bradshaw ) ( since loving the Arizona desert southwest we both like the Cardinals ) we will relax tonight and watch the super bowl. Since Arizona hasn't even been in the play-offs in sixty years I will be for them