Scott's Adventures in Arizona
Cactus Saguaro paradise
Cactus and the desert work together in Arizona like salt and pepper. Inside the row after row of RV's, park model homes, clubhouses and accessory buildings, swimming pool and hot tub, pickle ball and tennis courts, are varieties of cactus. There are...
Train Station Rincon West Railroad
Most people love trains. Just to the southeast of the main office at Rincon West RV Resort,in Tucson, runs the Rincon Railroad. Sitting on a little hill, train conductors sit in lawn chairs with wireless controllers and run their trains through their...
Tournament Time Rincon RV - Resort, Tucson
By eight in the morning, on a Saturday, a tournament is humming along. The game is simple enough. Each player has three discs and a stick. Each turn, a player pushes one of his disks down a slick court with his stick and tries to make his disc stop in...
Northern Arizona University Graduation – 2015 Ready for real life
The N.A.U. auditorium is filled with parents, friends, graduates, speakers, security, and interested observers. The event is graduation for the 2015 class of NAU Lumberjacks who have spent their last several years sharpening axes, learning to identify...
Road Kill I 40 West to Flagstaff
This is what this road trip looks like from behind the wheel. Ahead, there is a long rolling strip of Interstate split into two lanes with shoulders and entrances and exits. There are road signs, overpasses, and vehicles. Always there is sky and...
Pickleball Classic Back at Happy Trails Resort
A cool morning in Surprise, Arizona, you can hear paddles striking balls several streets away from the Happy Trails pickle ball courts. "There are 15,000 pickle ball players in this area," a woman educates me as she sells new pickle ball paddles...
Surprise Arizona at Sunset Dusk
At dusk, clouds congregate on the horizon and cars exit Highway 303 at Bell Rd. to go to Surprise, Arizona. It is quitting time for those who still have a job to go too. In Surprise, brother Alan and I are staying at the Happy Trails Resort but it could...
Roy Rogers- Dale Evans/Chuckwagon Restaurant Cowboy culture
Surprise, Arizona didn't start where it is today. Back in the day there wasn't much here but tumbleweeds, cactus, rugged mountains, ranches, farms, a few dirt roads and lots of dreams. The Happy Trails Resort was once nothing but a set of plans for...
Oranges, Saquaro and Ducks Resort accoutrements
There is, at some point, a line whereby good taste moves into bad. There are value meters operating in everyone's head at any given time with rating needles moving from one to ten, good to bad, up or down simultaneously within many categories. The Happy...
Steins, Arizona Murder Pulling off the freeway
I-10 takes you to Los Angeles if you stay on it all the way. Out of Wilcox, Arizona the Interstate takes you along a steadily winding uphill road that goes from long flat expanses to foothills and into rugged mountains. Several miles before you get to...
White Tank Mountain Reserve, Arizona protected nature
Outside the Happy Trails Resort, to the southwest, is a nature preserve named the White Tank Mountains. Whereas Surprise is a continuation of development, an encroachment upon the desert, the White Tank Mountains are resolutely clinging to...
Golf Ball Man/Happy Trails Resort Ushering in a New Year (2015) at an Arizona RV Resort
Golf and sunshine walk hand in hand in Arizona in 2015 like a retired couple on a perpetual honeymoon. The Happy Trails RV Resort surrounds a golf course and its golf holes wind through the development like a snake doing a break dance. The greens...
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