Today B went in for her school interview and placement exams. We did homeschool in the mid-80s that have become standard for our desert southwest winters. Here’s the view as M and I walked to synagogue this afternoon:
Shabbos in Phoenix was warm and busy. We checked out three different synagogues and made some new friends.
Today I stayed home with the kids and did homeschool while Trish did the laundry. After she got back, we drove around the neighborhood to get a feel for where we might be moving to come the fall.
Towards sunset, we drove the fifteen minutes to relocate to the Scottsdale driveway of our friends Barak and Shoshana:
I got up early this morning in hopes of flying. The low pressure has yet to work itself out of the area, but I was treated to an amazing pre-sunrise:
We hitched up the RV, said goodbye to our fellow pilots, and drove north to Phoenix where we will be spending Shabbos in this synagogue parking lot, visiting what may be our future neighborhood:
Good Shabbos from Phoenix, Arizona! See the trip map for today’s drive and our current location.
The low pressure front that made last night’s flying unpleasant moved in today in earnest, blowing too hard to fly. After homeschool, M built a Lego rubber band gun:
Despite bumpy conditions, a tandem PPG launched. Watching the wing jerk around up there, I was glad I decided not to fly:
We were treated to a nice sunset:
For the first time in days, the winds let up enough to fly, so I launched flight #93:
After breakfast, I took the kids for a bike ride. B had to repair her third flat since arriving here:
We rode our bikes out to the Obregon pit mine:
We passed this mining structure on the way back:
We hitched up, drove over to the border, and walked into Mexico to pick up Tricia’s glasses:
While waiting in line to return to the US, we saw two people climb the fence and enter the US illegally.
Continuing east, we crossed into Arizona:
As we were driving through Yuma, we saw an RV dealer with a selection of truck campers. We’ve talked about downsizing to a truck camper once the kids move out, but after looking at even the largest truck camper with two slides we decided they are still too small:
We also stopped for diesel and propane. During our grocery stop at Walmart, we saw this PPC fly by:
We continued on to overnight on abandoned land next to the Ak-Chin airport near Maricopa, Arizona, where I hope to fly for a couple days.
See the trip map for today’s drive and our current location.
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