Wanderings of the Warrens: July 29

We planned to take a few days and stay away from the heat of home but our trip was cut shot when on Saturday night there was a large storm in Phoenix and we decided rather than stopping in Flagstaff we would go directly home and see if everything was ok at home. We left Albuquerque early Sunday morning and arrived home to find we had not been affected by the storm (thankfully) although many of our friends had. What we did discover when we got home was a HOT condo. The AC had gone out and it was 97 degrees inside (110 outside). Thankfully our condo association fees cover the AC (no additional cost to us) but being Sunday they could not get anyone out to fix it until the next morning. We debated about getting a hotel room but opted to borrow a couple fans from our daughter, those plus our ceiling fans helped to make things bearable. We slept in the living room with doors and windows opened - that helped.

The AC man showed up about 9:30 Monday morning and was working on it for over 3 hours (poor guy, we thought we were hot, can't imagine how hot it was on the roof!). It took the better part of Monday to cool things back down but last night we were able to return the fans. I spent most of Monday cleaning an empty refrigerator, doing laundry, dusting floors and furniture and repacking items for the next part of the trip.

We plan to leave Friday or Saturday and drive to California to visit #1 son, Howard's sister and husband, my brother, meet friends in Solvang and then stop in Yuma to visit #2 son on our way back to Phoenix. We should be gone no longer than 2-3 weeks, if that.

I posted pictures of the first part of our vacation on my last post - below are more pictures from the 2nd half. Be sure and keep reading as there will be more posts to come as we complete this phase of our 'Wanderings'.