September, 2018

Apache Junction, AZ

We spent the entire month of September at the VIP RV Resort.  To call the rv park a resort is a bit of a stretch but it was okay for our purpose and for the price.

We chose to stay in Apache Junction because it has the most rv parks to choose from and because it is just a fifteen minute drive to my daughter’s house.

 

The temperature for the entire month was over 100 degrees.  Running both air conditioning units only cooled off the inside of our rig to 80 degrees. 

We ended up purchasing a couple rolls of foil from Camping World that we cut to size for each window.  The foil helped but also made us feel like we were in a cave.

Most of the month was spent visiting my daughter and twin granddaughters go turned 13 while we were visiting. 

We had great meals together including one meal cooked by one of the twins.

One of the granddaughters was very patient as she tutored Monte on a video game.

It was too hot to do much of anything during the day while my daughter was at work and the girls were in school so we spent a lot of just watching TV. 

Other than venturing out to Walmart for supplies we only went on two excursions the entire month.

The first outing was to the Goldfield Ghost Town, a roadside reconstruction of a gold discovery boom town that contains several buildings including a church, saloon, jail and several other buildings.

 

 

It was really too hot to spent much time outside so we just snapped a few photos as we walked up the main road and back again.  We had been to the town in past visits to the area so we didn’t feel like we missed out by our short visit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our second outing took a full day.  We drove the old Apache Trail stopping off at the Superstition Saloon in Tortilla Flat where we enjoyed a delicious lunch. 

 The saloon is quirky with its walls covered in dollar bills, saddle bar stools and charming bathroom door stalls.

 

Most of the 40-mile route through the Superstition Mountains on the Apache Trail is unpaved with hairpin turns and several one lane bridges.

 

The trail ends at the Theodore Roosevelt Dam where there is a great view of the Roosevelt Dam Bridge.

Prior to the completion of the bridge in 1990, traffic drove over the top of the dam.

The final night of visiting with my family was bittersweet-I was looking forward to some cooler weather but was also sad as I gave a final hug to my loved ones.