Day 67 - 70: Tempe' AZ

Day 67 - 70:  Dec
We are spending Wednesday thru Sunday night at an 55+ Trailer park in Arizona for a show.  Since Tempe' has outlawed "urban camping" (sleeping in your motorhome in non campgrounds) we were kind of forced into this.  We also need to be close to the show (given our gas guzzling vehicle and it is just easier).

I can tell you...you haven't lived until you have stayed in a trailer park!!!!!  Tempe' has tons of them
so we thought, Okay maybe these are not so bad.  Snowbirds staying in these parks.  We met a couple of nice gents but it ended there.

Our first day there:   Wow, we got a good spot with no one on either side of us what luck (there was a reason for that...read on).  We discovered the train track right behind the property (okay I put that on my list of things to check out for next time...my fault).  THEN, then THEN....there was the trailer park that was on the OTHER side of the cement block wall.  From over that side of our wall, there was the obnoxious yipping little dog that almost barked non stop.  Surely that little #&*(%  will be quiet during the night.  He must be dog tired from barking almost all day.  Well, it was not to be.  He barked from 3:30 am to 4:45 am in intervals that ensured I would not be able to sleep.  Then again at
5:00 am for another round.  I never did go back to sleep and I have a show to do.....  But wait, there is more.  Around 8 pm, the drummer that belonged to the trailer with the dog, began playing for a good hour.....   And then there was the loud latin/Spanish music coming from over the wall.... Who does this stuff?  Who allows their dog to bark like that especially in such close confines with thin walls????  These people must have missed the common courtesy part of their training.

I was ready to leave after day one, get our money back, and hunt for another place to stay.  David suggested we just move to our new spot.  We went to the office and requested a new spot, went to go look at it to spy if there were signs of any dogs in the area that we could see.  In we drove.

Off to the first day of the show we go...leaving in our spot our OLD, OLD chairs and a pair of flip flops each along with our lynx levelers (lego-like things that help level our motorhome).  We come back to find the levelers GONE.  WHATTTTTTTTTTTTT?  Who does that?  Steals levelers????
So it is dark but I scan our site and spot them.....over in the guy next store's storage area.  So I steal them back (knowing full well they are ours) and we drive up on them.  Who is stupid enough to do that and then leave them outside in full view?????  Yikes.  I have a new rule....ABSOLUTELY NO
trailer parks under any circumstances.