Now in Arizona

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Our plans to proceed to Tucson got delayed while we waited for already-ordered medications to arrive at the spot where we were camped. Two sets of medicines: one the VA had put into the shipment pipeline for me, and a separate order for Susan from the clinic where she’d been getting treatments before we started our winter odyssey. (She was given a month’s supply the day before we left, and this would be another month’s worth, after which she couldn’t get a refill till she returned in the Spring to be evaluated.)

My meds arrived without much hassle. There wound up being three different problems with Susan’s, though. 1) They weren’t sent out the day she was told they would be, but three days after that. 2) She wasn’t given a tracking number, even though she specifically requested it. 3) The text notice the RV park office sent us, that the medicines had arrived, didn’t show up on my phone till I specifically looked under their name, so we lost a day and a half on that part.

As it worked out, that just meant we departed on the day our month’s reservation ended anyhow, and I’d had no recurrence of symptoms in the meantime. So, we transited from Deming NM to Tucson AZ, a leisurely day’s drive with several rest stops.

Folks, Tucson is expensive.

No real surprise there, I had expected it, but not the extent. A week in our present park costs as much as the month we spent in Deming. And that seems to be the case with all the spots in Tucson. And it’s next to impossible to find anything else: every time I searched for “RV parks near Tucson” — or even explicitly outside Tucson — the search engine brought up … places in Tucson. Exclusively.

Doesn’t matter, really. Unless something happens to prevent it, we’ll be leaving when our week is up. For reasons I’ll go into the next time I update our situation.