Sunday, March 1, 2009

Day 52 - Feb 28th - Arizona City

Check the Jeeps tire pressure this morning. Damn!!! Down to 26 lbs again. Discount Tire had advised me to watch it and if it didn't hold pressure may have to buy a new tire. It could be leaking out into and through the belt, so I guess they may get paid after all, but not today. 10:00AM Tom and Linda say their good-byes and head for Yuma. We likely will not see them again until we are all back home in Canada. At about 10:30AM we head out on a tour to Picacho State Park. John and Brenda Brown are planning on moving there on Monday, so we may stop there for a few days ourselves. When we got there, the registration booth told us that all sites with electric hookups were gone and only a few "dry" sites remained. They were good enough to let us drive through, to check out the park. Nice! Then we went on down the service road for another 1/2 mile to the SE to Picacho RV Resort, to check it out. They also allowed us to drive through, and it is very nice. All services with amenities of Pool, Hot Tub, Club House. etc. for $27/night. We decided to register for 4 days. We even picked our own preference of sites. This seemed better than the State Park as they wanted $20 for electric only, $12 for dry sites. Then we returned home for lunch - left overs from last night, but they sometimes taste better the day after anyway.After lunch decided to go to the Eloy Airport as this is where the World Record Sky Diving performances are held. Found that very interesting as we watched 3 separate flights of about 20 adventurious people each. I'll tell you, they have a lot more guts than I do. We also went over to the Indoor Skydiving Facility. It consists of huge fans blowing skyward through a big glass tube about 15 feet across. Wind speeds of over 120 MPH are possible. This is enough to keep bodies up to 250lbs suspended in the air. Skydivers use this to experience free falling . Military also use it for the same reasons, not only US forces, but foreign ones as well. I could maybe handle this one as I would never be more than 20 feet off the ground! Supper was a salad and large Shrimp that Denice had forgot to put out last night.

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