April 7

We all met at the local IHOP for breakfast.


Dick Rice, Bonnie and Wayne Norris, and us at the Norris palace.








We got up thinking it was around 8. We were to meet the gang at 10, so we drove to the IHOP on Grant only to discover it was only 8:45. I had figured AZ on DST even though I knew they weren’t. We walked around and went to a CVS to get some herbs. We returned and met with Wayne and Bonnie Norris and Dick Rice. Dick’s wife did not come. We enjoyed a breakfast and then went to Wayne’s to continue our reminiscence. We will see Dick in Portland but Wayne won’t be there. We talked about people we remembered that we might see in June. We admitted that we would not see many of the classmates that stayed in Portland. Dick advanced the idea that they may be quite envious of us who left because we had mostly been successful. We returned to our coach a bit disappointed in that I thought Wayne and Bonnie might want to go somewhere with us. We had a short nap, hooked up and left for Casa Grande. We tried for more than an hour to find the church we want to attend tomorrow or a reasonably priced RV park but found neither. We finally (after dark) came to a small business and pulled around to the back for the night. After dinner, the owner came by and wanted to run us off, but I sweet talked her into letting us stay. She was some sort of “doctor” who held seminars in the building. She thought we were bold to drive onto private property. I explained that we really didn’t know it was private property as she deemed it and could not find the park we were looking for. We played some Kings on the corner and went to bed early, hoping to get up in time to find the church before 8, the early service time. Evelyn tried to call her brother to inquire about Mom four times but never got him. He never returned any of the calls. I think they might be visiting one of their sons. We did talk to the Beelis four times during the day. They are excited that we are finally on our way. We will try to arrive sometime Monday. We are still more than 500 miles away.