Phoenix. A store clerk said the monsoons have just arrived and should have arrived in May and be finished by now. The forecast for the next six days shows highs in triple digits! Plus humidity!!
Colleen and I did leave Friday morning. She now has a 2000 white Honda Accord, and it served us admirably on the trip down. It is very easy to drive (easier than our Jetta), and the a/c worked like a charm. We stayed with Sheila and the boys in Mt. Home on Friday night. Sheila had her wonderful taboullah salad for us for dinner, and after a good night's sleep, we were on the road again.
Saturday night found us in Kanab, Utah, and we arrived here in Phoenix about 8 pm last night. Due to an accident on the interstate between Flagstaff and Phoenix, the traffic was backed up and at a standstill, so we opted to head west to Prescott, and down through Wickenberg and into Phoenix from the west. There are mountains and winding road between Prescott and Wickenberg, and the drama increased as we drove through pouring rain.
I took Colleen to work this morning (we are staying about one mile from her office), and discovered the nearby Costco and Target. Of course I had left my Costco card in the checkbook - at home - but Costco in its usual efficiency and drive to separate you and your money was quick to give me a temporary card! Colleen and I are going to focus on checking out housing options for her before I leave here Wednesday morning.
Just as we are moving our daughter out, brother Mike and his wife Mary are moving their daughter in. Becky has been living in Lubbock, Texas while she earned her masters (in statistics??!!! Ugh!!) from Texas Tech. Now she is back in Spokane and wants to go to school to be an LPN! Becky works several jobs when going to school, and she discovered she really liked nursing care, especially the elderly and dying. Oh boy, do we ever need her and lots more like her!! And she doesn't want to be an RN, because she just wants to do hands-on nursing care. You go girl!! She will want to have a place of her own, but real estate in Spokane has also gone crazy.
Mike and Mary and Ken and I bought a 2 bedroom, 1 bath house in Spokane in the mid 70's for our mother to live in. It was probably built in the 40s, we paid $14,950 for it and it just recently sold for $119,000. With that kind of escalation, it is difficult for young people to get a foot in the door.
I'll be home about noon on Wednesday. Our friends, the McKains are having a memorial mass said for Pat on Thursday afternoon, so I want to be there for that. And then on Saturday we will be going to Oregon.
Ciao
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