What we've been doing while in Benson, AZ

Basically, we have been pretty laid back and enjoying the weather.

Tuesday evening, we played Bingo and I won a game.  Whoo Hoo!  First time ever winning ($24) and we've played maybe 10 times in almost four years on the road.  

Thursday, we headed out to find some geocaches and at the second location, Rick and John noticed the Jeep was leaking a fluid.  It was speculated that it was the water pump and we headed back to home.  Rick called a Jeep dealer in Tucson and was able to get it in.  Road Trip!  John and I followed Rick and Y and they made it safely to the dealer.  Since we were in Tucson, we decided to give friends Ralph and Cheryl a call to see if they were home at Justin's Diamond J RV Park.  Ralph and Cheryl had recently returned from an African Safari lead by Doc Justin (owner of Justin's Diamond J) and we were anxious to hear some of their tales.  After getting a sneak preview of some of their photos (spectacular) and hearing a bit of their experiences, it was time for dinner.  We all headed to Tiny's and had Steerburgers. After that, we loaded up and headed back to Benson.  

Friday, we went into town to pick up some groceries and a stop at the local lumber yard, Benson Lumber, where service was terrific.  We wanted to get some 2 x 10 pieces of lumber to park the trailer tires on while at Justin's as the rocks are big and chunky.  We had been forewarned that a weather front was going to pass thru along with strong wind gusts (50 mph), possible dust storms, and rain.  Boy, were they right.  It was rock n' roll all night long with the power going out around 4 a.m. for a period of time and then intermittently in the morning.  John did get a bit more sleep than I during the storm.  I don't think I really was able to "sleep" until after 5 a.m. and didn't get up until 9:40 a.m.  The angle of the rig to the wind was worse than we experienced at Elephant Butte Lake in New Mexico where we experienced 70+ mph wind gusts.  

We will be picking up and heading to Tucson on Sunday.  Hopefully, the wind dies down a bit so that the traveling is easy (a whole 60 miles :-))  Until then . . .