Our drive home starts today.
Our first night is planned for Boulder City/Hoover Dam area SE of Las Vegas. After that, weather will determine our progress; looking at notes from last year, we had to winterize our trailer at the same location as freezing weather was ahead of us.
We may not be able to post our blog as internet/WIFI services will not be regularly available.
We had a great ride yesterday but the weather was not through with us...
Monday night about 10 PM there arose a great wind that rocked our trailer mightily, blew a palm frond noisily on the roof and brought more rain. Only an hour earlier we had walked home from a scrabble evening and remarked that the sky was quite clear and the wind calm!
The wind (very little rain) continued through the night and into the day with dark threatening clouds and wind constantly changing their formats.
This morning the skies are blue!
Rain started Saturday evening as we walked home from playing games with friends in our Park. Since then we have had changeable skies; just when we thought the clouds were moving on, they would build up again and shower - everything from a few sprinkles to a downpour!
Not much fun....
The sky cleared and the sun came out this morning after all that unsettled weather. Think we'll go for a ride!
We'll start driving back to Alberta on Thursday morning March 28th.
We had another few "rain events" over the past weekend but now things are toasty and dry; hiking and biking while we may.
At 5 pm today, temperatures were almost identical in both Apache Junction and Calgary???!!!
We had read that Calgary was expecting unseasonably warm weather today but, when Bill was chatting online with his choir friend in Calgary, Bob confirmed the weather predictions. Apache Junction was cloudy with frequent episodes of rain.
Apache Junction (5pm MST) 48F / 9C
Calgary (6pm MDT) 50F / 10C
Donna and Drew invited us for cherry pie (and ice cream) on Pi Day
Pi Day is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant π. Pi Day is observed on March 14 (3.14) since 3, 1, and 4 are the first three significant figures of π . Pi Day, as we know it these days, was founded in 1988 by Larry Shaw, an employee of the San Francisco science museum, the Exploratorium.
Pi is actually an irrational number (a decimal with no end and no repeating pattern) that is most often approximated with the decimal 3.14 (often represented by the lower-case Greek letter Ï€), one of the most well-known mathematical constants, is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter; so for any circle, the distance around the edge is a little more than three times the distance across.
Here's an interesting article about the math, science and pies of Pi Day:
Our Alberta friends, Donna & Drew, from Canmore (west of Calgary) have been in Apache Junction for a little more than a week; they are in their motor home heading back to Alberta after a winter in Tucson.
The state of Arizona is on Mountain Standard Time but, with the exception of the Navajo Nation, does not observe Daylight Saving Time
Sure enjoyed our midday adventure with our condo neighbour Louise who is staying in Mesa for a month. She wanted to get a long awaited glimpse of the the Salt River wild horses and we found them along a scenic drive through the mountains on our way to Fountain Hills, NE of Mesa.
