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Sunday, April 19, 2015

Day 9 - Flagstaff, AZ to Goodyear, AZ

Today was going to be a short driving day so we expected to try and sleep in. I say try because we forgot Arizona does not have daylight savings and consequently 7:00 was really 6:00. A quick breakfast sandwich at McDonalds and Starbucks next door and we were heading south on interstate 17.

Every time we head down to the Phoenix area there's a little competition as to who will see the first saguaro cactus. Today I won. Again. It was a great find on the passenger side exactly where Barb should have been looking. Someday Barb may win.

I can't begin to tell you how dirty the car was this morning and Barb said there was no way we were going into the resorts looking like someone from Oregon. After a good hour and a half we pulled into the Full Circle Car Wash #27. The guy taking money looked over the car, said "bugs", recommended the $8 wash and a short time later we left with a clean car.

First stop was our fourth visit at Pebble Creek, where we again went through the model homes and visited the Villas. I like the villas. The right size for the two of us and all outside maintenance covered by the HOAs. Next up was lunch and we headed for a sandwich shop we found last year. After parking the car we lost sight of the goal and wandered into Rubio's for fish tacos and a pair of Coronas. Attention span seems to be getting just a little short. By the time we ate the temprature was 88 degrees and would soon max out at 93.

After lunch we drove about 14 miles south to CantaMia. This is a gated community we had not visited before. Very nice facility with eight model homes to go through. We really liked one model in particular, but in the end it was just too far out of town.

A qjuick stop at our hotel to check in and then dinner at Red Lobster. Overall a very good day. Tomorrow we will do some more looking, but we have pretty much decided we will be staying put in Redmond.

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