Service at Freedom RV - day 2

On Wednesday day morning, we weren't exactly sure when the chassis service folks would be ready to take Gracie, so we started closing things up by a little after 7am...

Gracie in her spot in Freedom RV's lot

Unlike National Indoor RV service centers, although Freedom RV allows fulltimers to stay overnight in their rig the lot, it seems that they work hard to ensure that you don't have to be there overnight by getting the work done in an expeditious manner!

They took Gracie for service soon after 8am, and by 10am, we were checked out and ready to go.

I had locked Miss Kitty in the bedroom while service was being done -- when I opened the door to let her out, she was sleeping on top of my pillow on the bed!

We made the drive from Tucson to Mesa, stopping in Chandler for fuel.

When we got to Venture Out, we checked in with the security folks and they welcomed us back. 

We drove to our lot, but before we could park Gracie in her spot, we needed to clear weeds that had grown up over the summer. The worst was a single huge plant of goat heads that had grown and then dried and gone to seed right on the asphalt parking pad (it had found a tiny 1/4"x1" crack in which to grow up as what had probably been about a 4' bush before it dried and went to seed). We worked to get as much of that up and contained as we could, as well as pulling other weeds that had grown in the rock area behind the parking pad (which Gracie would cover once she was parked). Given it was 100F+, we were not interested in doing too much work, but we needed to get done what had to be done.

Unfortunately, no before pictures of the lot as we arrived.

Friends Linda and Don from across the street noticed we had arrived, and Don came over to welcome us back and to invite us to come for dinner -- what a nice welcome back!

We've had a great 7 months of traveling, but we're glad to be back, hopefully for several months!