{"id":9097,"date":"2017-04-26T05:36:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T05:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=9097"},"modified":"2017-04-18T05:38:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T05:38:14","slug":"phinally-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=9097","title":{"rendered":"Phinally Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"

A\u00a0trip of about 1000 miles – and it began with a full tank of gas.<\/p>\n

Followed by at least another three tanks, a new battery, two nights in rest stops, a trip to Mexico while camped nearby and a night “dry camping”.<\/p>\n

But I finally arrived at Desert Shadows RV Resort. \u00a0I booked a site there for\u00a0while I worked on administering tests for National Assessment of Educational Progress. \u00a0This is a program that operates every other year and tests students across the country. The like to call themselves “The Nation’s Report Card.”<\/a><\/p>\n

I worked on the project in 2013, when I still lived in Michigan. When they called to see if I was available for 2015, I was already on the road. I told them that I was interested, but that I needed to be in a warm locale. That year, I worked in Tucson. When they called me for 2017, I requested Phoenix, so I could spend time with Konnie, my adventure buddy.<\/p>\n

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I look forward to sharing our adventures.<\/p>\n

I got settled in at Desert Shadows RV Resort. It was heavy on the amenities but tight on the space. I guess I’m just not the “amenities” sort of person. Shuffleboard, bocci ball and such things don’t do it for me. They do have card parties, but who plays cards at 9:00 in the morning?<\/p>\n

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I mean, that is one tight spot! Some mornings I would have to fold in my side mirror to make sure that I didn’t bump into the fifth wheel next to me.<\/p>\n

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This was the view out my door. Not inspiring.<\/p>\n

I paid for a month, so I stayed for a month. Luckily, I found a fantastic regional park when Konnie took me around on our adventures. I stayed there for the rest of my time.<\/p>\n

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Now this\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is more like it!<\/p>\n

The only catch to camping at Lake Pleasant Regional Park<\/a> is you can only stay in a site for two weeks. This is not really a problem, though, because they will let you move from campsite to campsite. If I had only known about this gem, I could have made reservations in advance. As it was, I had to move to four different sites while I was there.<\/p>\n

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This view was from the second site I was in. Sunrise over Lake Pleasant.<\/p>\n

My third site didn’t have the views, but it was right next to the bathhouse and they had really nice showers.<\/p>\n

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The whole place was so well maintained. They rake the campsites before we move in! I felt like my fire pit was part of a zen garden.<\/p>\n

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What a beautiful place! Of course, they didn’t have shuffleboard or bocci ball or early morning card games, but I didn’t mind in the least. My neighbors weren’t crammed right next to me, either.<\/p>\n

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And the sunsets were pretty special, too!<\/p>\n

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A\u00a0trip of about 1000 miles – and it began with a full tank of gas. Followed by at least another three tanks, a new battery, two nights in rest stops, a trip to Mexico while camped nearby and a night “dry camping”. But I finally arrived at Desert Shadows RV Resort. \u00a0I booked a site … Continue reading Phinally Phoenix<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[775],"class_list":["post-9097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lake-pleasant-regional-park"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9097"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9138,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097\/revisions\/9138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}