060402 - Maricopa, AZ
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Maricopa, AZ
The Cocopah Golf Club and RV Resort was a mixed blessing. If you like golf, I’m sure it is a great treat to have the fairways and tees at your door step, but if you are someone with a disability and a service dog, it loses lots of its glamour.
The grounds were pretty, with tennis courts, shuffleboard, horseshoes and a very nice pool with grassy lounge areas, and the weather was really nice and warm most of the time.
The roadways were kind to the Batmobile and Peter seemed to find lots of places to water and fertilize. All in all, it was a good vacation spa.
Getting back on the road, especially in the west is always a thrill. Everywhere you look there are mountains, and behind them are more mountains. Here we are, in the catbird’s seat of a big rig, speeding along on a flat, smooth, clearly marked modern highway, and wondering what it must have been like for the settlers hundreds of years ago, confronting wilderness, forests, mountains and rivers, without so much as a map or road marker. It must have been awesome and extremely challenging, just to choose a direction of travel and stick to it. Hell, we have trouble when there’s too much gravel or loose dirt for the walker or Batmobile to function on. As you get closer to the foothills of these great mountain ranges, it boggles the mind that people crossed them with primitive wagons, filled with their life’s possessions and families. I must admit that some of the mountains I have driven in and crossed have delighted me with some of the most spectacular views of our country, not to mention some of the most beautiful valleys and lakes that I have ever seen..
Our country is vast, with pockets of civilization, but mostly devoid of steel and concrete structures and two legged intruders. I must admit, I would rather be the navigator than the driver on most of these roads, but since I don’t trust Peter to drive, I will have to accept the compromise of seeing everything thru a large windshield over a steering wheel. I hope someday you can experience what we have seen and heard and felt. Peter has a mantra that says it all: “So many trees, so little time”.
Maricopa, AZ
The Cocopah Golf Club and RV Resort was a mixed blessing. If you like golf, I’m sure it is a great treat to have the fairways and tees at your door step, but if you are someone with a disability and a service dog, it loses lots of its glamour.
The grounds were pretty, with tennis courts, shuffleboard, horseshoes and a very nice pool with grassy lounge areas, and the weather was really nice and warm most of the time.
The roadways were kind to the Batmobile and Peter seemed to find lots of places to water and fertilize. All in all, it was a good vacation spa.
Getting back on the road, especially in the west is always a thrill. Everywhere you look there are mountains, and behind them are more mountains. Here we are, in the catbird’s seat of a big rig, speeding along on a flat, smooth, clearly marked modern highway, and wondering what it must have been like for the settlers hundreds of years ago, confronting wilderness, forests, mountains and rivers, without so much as a map or road marker. It must have been awesome and extremely challenging, just to choose a direction of travel and stick to it. Hell, we have trouble when there’s too much gravel or loose dirt for the walker or Batmobile to function on. As you get closer to the foothills of these great mountain ranges, it boggles the mind that people crossed them with primitive wagons, filled with their life’s possessions and families. I must admit that some of the mountains I have driven in and crossed have delighted me with some of the most spectacular views of our country, not to mention some of the most beautiful valleys and lakes that I have ever seen..
Our country is vast, with pockets of civilization, but mostly devoid of steel and concrete structures and two legged intruders. I must admit, I would rather be the navigator than the driver on most of these roads, but since I don’t trust Peter to drive, I will have to accept the compromise of seeing everything thru a large windshield over a steering wheel. I hope someday you can experience what we have seen and heard and felt. Peter has a mantra that says it all: “So many trees, so little time”.
posted by The Highway Guys @ 8:21 PM
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