Mexico in Late Winter of 1972 11 27 2007

This is another in the series of 'map n scrap' pictures. Yes, another page out of the Woodall RV book. As you can see, there aren't as many campgrounds in Arizona was there were in Wisconsin during the same time period. Or, better said, out of the same book.

It was late February, early March. Bud, who had turned one the previous September had a terrible winter. His sister brought home several viruses from school. I know it is said the average child has 150 viruses before they settle down to one or two a year, I am certain Bud had all of his that winter.

My parents were spending the winter in Arizona. This time, they had bought a house in one of those Del Webb communities at Sun City. They invited us to come and spend a few days and get Bud into some sun. It was a welcome invitation. Even as we left Kansas City, we were trying to get antibiotics into him. We had put the medicine in his drink. He smelled each drink and then drank out of the one that didn't have ground pills in it.

While at Sun City, we went to some of the model homes. They were decorated very nicely. One of them was done in Victorian. It had Queen Anne furniture and a large glass topped dining room table. Daddy looked at the table and then said, "I wonder what it would be like to try to eat at this table with a big dog drooling under the table". I can see Diamond's nose prints on the underside of the table. I can hear mother not being happy about it.

The sun was wonderfully warm. We liked driving around the city in the golf car, we liked to go to the nursery and look at all the azaleas. Beyond the nursery was a grocery store. I don't remember the name of it, I just remember the yellow lettering. We liked taking Rachel swimming and going to the zoo.

We didn't know it was almost a four hour drive to Mexico where we crossed into Nogales. Rachel bought a little leather tooled purse and a quartz donkey. We ate at a Kentucky Fried Chicken on the way back to Sun City. Bud would say his first word, MORE. I would have a chance to walk a bit in the desert and look at a cactus close up; Mother didn't get out of the car, she was certain a snake would come and bite her.

If there were only two photos I could keep, it would be Bud getting his shoes polished in Mexico and Rachel in her yellow bathing suit. If I could only have one, I would scan them side by side and call it one.

Treasure your memories; treasure your photographs.

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PS Bud came into wellness and managed to stay there for some time.