Dinner as advertised

Delicious!!!

We arrived about 15 minutes before our reservation time but our table was setup and ready...a good start for our Turkey Day feast.

After ordering and sampling a pre-dinner beverage we headed to the buffet.  Everyone said whatever they had off had off the buffet menu was excellent and with all the different dishes it was easy to get into overload early. Most of us just stuck with what we enjoyed most from previous Thanksgiving dinners.

L-R: me, Mike S., Mike & Debbie and Mary A. 

Betty was behind the camera.

Guess who scored a turkey leg?

All in all we have to give this dinner at the Francisco Grande an excellent rating. Found out that they will be doing a Christmas dinner and the gals are talking about coming back for that...hard to disagree.

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Happy Thanksgiving

Hope everyone has a wonderfull day and if you are on the road...safe travels.

Some History about Thanksgiving around the world.

Thanksgiving Day Plans 2016

This year in S. AZ Thanksgiving Day Dinner will be a treat for 6 of us. For a change someone else is doing the prep, cooking and cleanup.

Here is the Menu for where we are going and only 20 minutes away;

Here is where we'll be...The Francisco Grande Resort.

A little History;

"The Francisco Grande dates back to 1959 when San Francisco Giants owner Horace Stoneham developed the property as a spring training camp for his popular Major League Baseball team. Then Arizona Governor Paul Fannin attended the dedication before the first exhibition game in 1961, as did National League president Warren Giles, to an overflowing crowd. Optimism swirled like desert dust devils when Willie Mays hit a 375-foot home run off Gaylord Perry in the forth inning of the first ever game at Francisco Grande. "Francisco" was taken from the San "Francisco" Giants and "Grande" was taken from Casa "Grande"; thus the name "Francisco Grande." 

While Willie Mays, Willie McCovey and Juan Marichal were honing their Hall of Fame skills, the Resort became an exclusive and intimate desert hideaway for Hollywood elites. Legends such as John Wayne, Dale Robertson, Pat Boone, and Gale Gordon made the Francisco Grande their home away from home."

You know if  'John' was there I have to visit. :)

We'll have a post Thanksgiving Dinner 'Review'.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

Arrived SW Arizona for the Winter

As planned we left Reno last Friday for our trip to Eloy, AZ.

Our first stop was Woodbridge, CA (Lodi) where we stayed at the local Elks Lodge for 2 nights. Saturday we picked up our quartely wine shipment.from Oak Ridge Winery. Great 2 nights to relaxagain in our rig.

Our site at the Lodge.

Nice view of the adjacent golf course from the Lodge bar.

Sunday we made the 4+ hour drive down the 99 to Bakersfield and the Orange Grove RV Park...our normal stop going South. Picked some oranges off the many trees to take along.

Monday we headed out on the 58 going to Needles, CA where we stayed at the Needles KOA for our last overnight. No pics from here.

We left early Tuesday for the 6+ hour drive to Eloy, AZ and the Silverado RV Resort arriving around 2:30pm. It was like old home week seeing friends again we have known for a few years.

We will be here until early April and will post updates during our stay and please post any comments here in our Trip Journal.

Trust everyone is fine and if on the road safe travels.

Headin' out....

UPDATE November 8, 2016

Since the service dealer still has not touched our rig and they aren't giving us satisfactory answers we will pick up the rig tomorrow get it home, pack it up and head out this Friday. The service we wanted done is not a safety issue.

First overnight will be the Elks Lodge in Woodbridge, CA which is about 175 miles and a  3:15 hour run. Plan now is 2 nights there before going to Bakersfield, CA. and Needles, CA each for 1 night.

Should arrive in Eloy at the Silverado RV Resort on Tuesday the 15th in plenty of time to get ready for Thanksgiving.

We'll try and provide updates as we go.

Reno to Arizona....

We are anxious so we might be leaving a little earlier than planned. Looking forward to....

Have the rig out of storage and in for a little service as of Oct. 31. When done we will leave for Eloy, AZ  instead of going back into 'short' storage till the 15th..

Plan on spending time with friends locally this week.

So....stay tuned and of course will have updates.:15