Full Time - May 2022 Well, it’s been awhile. Sassy was repaired but it took two months which cancelled our fall 2021 travels. Seems like a long time to fix a hole in the fiberglass, but it was a big hole. The insurance company, Foremost, was very good about covering the cost which approached $10K. Our agent at Foremost thought that 2 months was less than average these days. I don’t have the expertise to judge, but two months was frustrating. Northern Arizona RV Collision did do an outstanding repair job and I would recommend them highly. They are in Prescott Valley. The accident with Sassy poked through and interior cabinet, so some replacement wall board was needed. Hugh went back and forth between getting original, very expensive, replacements from Bigfoot or using wall paper on 1/8” plywood. Finally, when he saw how far Sassy was disassembled (so no chance of replacing the panels later) he decided to get OEM replacements. Well, Bigfoot, after stating the panels were only available from them, refused to sell them to us. They wanted us to waive any liability for shipping damage! This seemed foolish when we had no control over packaging or shipping. Back to wallpaper on plywood. But Shannon, in the Bigfoot Parts Department, went out of her way to work out a way to have two panels drop shipped from the manufacturer in Washington State. Turned out that shipping was considerably less than shipping from Canada. Bigfoot has a good reputation but this left a bad taste in my mouth (except for Shannon). Hugh purchased a new tank for the water heater in Sassy. Couldn’t find a replacement water heater so just replaced the tank (which was obtainable). It’s worked well since. Now we have a growing list of repair and mods still needed. We spent the winter in Brenda, AZ as usual. The Pandemic was still a concern so we stayed away from organized indoor activities. We found some others to go off-roading (Teryx4 side by side) with so did a number of local trips. Hugh spent time putting together his machine shop and Denise worked on lapidary. Hugh was sick February and March with a bad cold/flu, then a kidney infection which put a damper on the second half of the winter. We returned to Prescott Valley the first of April 2022. With medical appointments, etc., it took us till May 10 to get on the road again. The plan was to spend time in northeast Arizona, specifically the White Mountains. We’ve been through the area but haven’t spend much time. With fuel prices what they currently are (some $5.50/gal diesel) we planned to stay closer to the Prescott Valley and spend a week or two each stop. This would be a lot less driving than we have historically done. By fall the fuel price will be less, or we’ll be more used to it, and plan a longer outing. So, we headed east, through Payson, to a spot at Canyon Point CG. It’s a National Forest camp on the Mogollon Rim east of Payson. After settling we drove around and checked out other CG in the area but liked Canyon Point best. About half the CG is “first come first serve” (FFS) so once you have a site in that section you can stay up to 14 days. We stayed a week mostly, walking around the CG and sight seeing locally. One longer hike to a view over the Mogollon Rim. Mogollon-2.jpg Mogollon-3.jpg Mogollon-1.jpg Dogs.jpg Canyon Point CG was not crowded. There were FFS sites available every night, even during the weekend, however it was before Memorial Day. We stayed one night at Ponderosa RV Resort in Lakeside, AZ for laundry and groceries. Hard to find an RV spot in Lakeside or Pinetop probably to long term rentals. This one was OK for overnight but would try to not stay there again by choice. From Lakeside we motored to Rolf Hoyer CG very near Greer, AZ. This is another National Forest CG with FFS sites. We had no trouble finding a site. The area and CG are nice so we stayed almost two weeks, through Memorial Day weekend. We hiked around the CG area and wandered the area. There are several lakes just across the highway from Hoyer. Also a nice creek/river just past Greer. There was a trail up the canyon but we didn’t hike it. Greer-2.jpg gov-springs.jpg Several nice hikes around Greer but we were mostly lazy (or old). There’s a small canyon at the upper edge of the CG that we explored a couple of times. Butler Canyon was a short loop up from Greer. Butler.jpg Drove over the mountain to Winn CG and Big Lake. Both looked nice and it may be our next jump. We drove back through Eager and Springerville. Some nice views going down into those towns. WhiteMt-1.jpg WhiteMt-2.jpg And we did jump to Winn CG on May 31. It’s a nice Forest Service CG up in the White Mountains somewhat north of Big Lake. More rustic than Canyon Pt, Hoyer or Big Lake but very nice. However, it’s over 9000’ which did not suit Denise. Even with treatment for altitude it was too high for her. So although nice it was unworkable so we only stayed one night. The White Mountains are nice but not as scenic as we’d anticipated. But well worth the effort of visiting. It’s great to be back traveling again.