First visitors

Carl and Karin Amato (formerly onboard Reliance) are our first visitors. They are travelling this winter in their motorhome.

It's ours now!

Here is Nancy in front of our new home at 635 West Redondo Place, Green Valley AZ 85614.

Sonoran Desert

Today we spent 4 hours hiking through the wonderful exhibits at the Arizona - Sonora Desert Museum near Tucson. It is a very impressive place. The exhibits are informative. The animals have plenty of room in habitats that are similar to the wild. We learned a lot about our new area!

mountain lion

Mexican wolf - very rare

Raptor show

coati getting a drink

Bighorn sheep

Birds in the aviary

Gila Monster

The keeper uses two hooks to lift and move this creature. He's poisonous and beautiful!

Hummingbird home

This sign is on the ouside wall of the large enclosure where the hummingbirds live. We saw quite a few different varieties.

Herm and the organpipe cactus

grapefruit next to our RV

They are numerous but not sweet yet!

lunch on our patio

It's warm enough on most sunny days to eat lunch outside. Note - no tan! We wear long pants most of the time. It's winter here also.

new houses above Lake Travis

This is part of a huge area behind Ed and Michelle's house with many new huge houses. Last time we visited, this was covered in trees. It was on our hiking route to the lake.

Friends

Karyn holds 2 year old Ryder next to his dad, Brandon with Devin.

Ed runs in the skateboard park

It's a marvellous concrete place to crack open a head but Ed runs in it without any skateboard.

The shark plays pool!

Herm must be out of practice as Ed beat him this time!

New Year's Eve toast!

Michelle and Ed at the party,

Pedicure day

Here we are getting ready to celebrate New Year's Eve with hot wet towels wrapped around our legs , part of the pedicure procedure! We were not in any hurry to leave those soothing massage chairs.

Pioneer village, Fredericksburg

This weathered house is one of the original ones in the old German settlement.

Quilts and more quilts!

Ed and Michelle took us to Fredricksburg, an old German village. The streets are lined with shops of all sorts. In this one there are more quilts than I have ever seen in one place! N.

one tough steer!

Sunset over Lake Travis

Ed and Michelle took us to the "Oasis", where we enjoyed margaritas and the view.

visit with Ralph and Shirley

The Coxes were married about a year before we were and lived in the same complex in Sanford, Florida as we did. Ralph and Herm were both in VC-9, squadron of AJ2 Navy bombers. They have lived in Lakeway for 22 years.