Still here at McDowell Mountain Regional Park...near Fountain Hills, AZ.  The weather has been nice...mostly...Saturday Feb 1st and Sunday the 2nd the temps rose to the upper 70s.  But Monday the 3rd it only got up to 60...Tuesday and Wednesday mornings got down to 28, with highs only in the 40s!

In our previous trips here we found an old car that had been abandoned many years ago and burned in a desert wash...it was in tough shape but it seemed to be good enough to restore...

1960 Chevy Impala Convertible

I took a lot of pictures...and a close friend back home tried contacting the county to determine if he could drive up the wash and recover it.  The County Parks Department were not at all cooperative and refused all requests to drive off road and remove it.  Then I and posted the pix on a Facebook page about 1959 and 1960 Chevrolets....It was like kicking a hornets nest!  Dozens of guys wanting to know where it was and if anyone owned it.  Finally I posted the coordinates of the location and advised them of the County refusal.  So it turns out some adventurous person drove up the wash and extracted the car! 

Bare spot where the car was

It must have been quite a project.  We talked to the folks in the visitor center about it...They are quite upset about it being gone it seems.  I told them I posted the photos and coordinates and that I thought it was cool that someone was going to restore it....They were NOT impressed!

Last year when we were here we saw a Motorhome we really liked parked in an adjacent site....

Renegade Ikon

They were very nice folks!  This year they are our neighbors again.  We asked what a rig like that cost....He told us $750,000.00!  That's a wee bit above our budget!  

When we got back from visiting those folks the Boys didn't greet us at the door like they usually do...they were busy looking out the back window...

They were busy watching a Road Runner and some Quail that we had put out food for!

It's supposed to warm gradually to the mid 70s by the weekend!  Till next time!