LOL rubySam (Lori)! Your observations are right on the money!
Yes we have been having the time of our lives. And yes, we were unhappy last week with the initial reaction to the El Mirage RV resort. We have been looking for an Arizona park where we would have lots of activities, a nice spot for the coach, and an on site golf course. When we arrive there it was on Friday night, and what we failed to realize was that the season does not start until November 1. This is our first time in AZ and we assumed it would be more like the east coast with snowbirds pouring in all through October. Apparently out here the mass migration occurs a month later.
As a result, when we came in, the staff had gone off duty for the entire weekend, the place was dead as a doornail, and we were parked in a very muddy field but with full hookups. Parking transients in the newly developed park areas is standard practice for parking transients. The mud came from leaky fire hoses providing water for the golf course which is being re-seeded.
The whole picture began to change Sunday afternoon when the activities director had come across an unhappy message from us on another RV forum and came knocking on our door. This effort alone cheered us up, that someone would go out of their way to meet unhappy potential customers. By yesterday we had found a prime spot, already landscaped by the previous owners and one block away from the pool and office complex. Today we signed an annual contract and tomorrow we go shopping for a golf cart and a shed. We have already met some of the neighbors on our street (the ones who stay all year round or like us, come in a month early for the winter season) and they are wonderful people and full of tips and offers of help.
A real surprise is that a neighbor across the street told us that the lot next to us will soon be occupied by an annual tenant who is a Newmar employee and drives a Mountain Aire. Wow! A Newmar expert right next door!!
Note: we have changed our sig line to indicate complete happiness ;D
