After a wonderful visit with Cheryl and Mike Kobel, we headed into the Phoenix Metro area to search out a "find" Dolly spotted on line. For those of you who know her, she's into beads and a downright SUPER earring maker (check out her facebook page). We wound our way down the 303, onto I-10 and across the lower part of the city to Tempe. Old Bertha (our GPS) took us to the bead store without a hitch. Beads Galore is a huge bead outlet with about 6,500 square feet of beads. To put this into perspective, this bead store is 5 times larger than our house. While beading isn't my cup of tea, Chi-Chi and I roamed the area in the shade while Dolly drooled, wished and finally bought what she needed to sustain her for a while. 
 After the bead store, we found our way back to I-17 and headed north out of Phoenix . We stopped overnight at a KOA at Black Canyon, AZ and set up, had our evening meal (Turkey burgers and sauerkraut - remember we're on a low carb diet). 
 We had some interesting neighbors at this campground. Two guys had a fairly large tent set up and by the looks of it, were on the long-term plan. Evidently they like beer and watched Championship Poker on the computer all day. 
 After eating and cleaning up, we set out on a photo safari within the campground. Wow, what a treasure trove of photo ops. Dolly's hip started bothering her so she headed back to the camp a little early. When she got back, she found that a feral cat had finished Chi-Chi's supper and was just leaving when she arrived. I shared some of Dolly's photos today on FB, those that I took will be attached to this. I hope.
 Several of the photos that I wanted to include just didn't make it as they are tied up in a connection and download between my phone and my photos on the computer. I'll add them later. Either I need to be smarter about this stuff or you'll have to be VERY patient. I vote for you to be patient. 
 Right now, its about 7:30 pm and I'm about a day late in putting this blog together Let's just say it was one internet and connection disaster after another all day. Usually I try to post in the morning, when we can...but not today. It just didn't work. I'll do today's post tomorrow morning. Confusing? I'm sure it is. Hang with us. 

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