Landed in Benson, AZ

My view while posting Sunday's blog

We got quite a lot of rain in Tonopah on Sunday afternoon and right up until about sundown.  Yesterday morning we decided to take the time for a last desert walk with Gracie.  It was so clean and bright.  

Awesome color as the sun set.

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We pulled out after breakfast, after 9 sometime.  We took a detour to Buckeye to our dentist for one last adjustment to our crowns.  Getting three at once creates all kinds of problems getting your bite adjusted so you don't have pain from your teeth hitting wrong.  You zip a bit off here and now over there needs a bit off.  We're really tired of our teeth hurting.  We've been back a few times.  This last bit as we left should be it...we need to just let them all settle down.  Teeth shift all the time, so once the major discomfort and reactionary pain quits, we should be good.  
 






 
















It being Monday and as we were drop ins, we had to wait at the dentist a bit, but we were on the road from Buckeye around 11:10.  We bypassed Phoenix by dropping down to I-8 via highway 85.  I-8 is beautiful, not a lot of semi-truck traffic, not much civilization and you go through beautiful areas of Saguaros, then the choyas start showing up.  I think it was south of Tuscon that we started seeing a lot of prickly pear.  It was a beautiful day to travel.
 

Clouds over RV park in Benson

We arrived at the Benson SKP park about 3:30.  We loved it 11 years ago when we were here during our full time RVing years and it's still wonderful.  It's so peaceful and the views of the Dragoon mountains are stunning. The park is just so well kept and the people so friendly!

Yay!  No freeway noise and no chickens!  Our first evening.

Different this morning.  It was still raining.

It was pretty cloudy by sunset.  This morning we were awakened before 6 by thunder and lightning and then heavy rain.  It was right over us for quite awhile and very slow to move out.  There are still quite a lot of thunderclouds floating about in the sky today, every once in awhile blocking the sun.

Wet rained on cactus flowers.

 

There are cactus blooming everywhere!  Here in the park on the ones that have been planted and outside the park, the wild desert cactus are blooming.  Amazing flowers everywhere.  

We walked about in the park today and took a short desert walk where Gracie got to chase a rabbit.  She never seems to see where they take off to.  She won't be getting the desert walks she has been getting.  It's hillier here, not my favorite terrain.  

Until later!