New Home  

What a mind-boggling development and what a change. We have leased a brand new home in Rio Rico, AZ. Rio Rico is an unincorporated area in the hilly desert of Southern Arizona, surrounded by mountain ranges providing gorgeous views. There are many homes scattered about, many new houses going up but none of those tract homes and developments with houses 3 feet from each other and no HOA, not one. We celebrate the NO HOA as much as anything. We are just 12 miles from the Mexican Border and a big portion of the population here is Mexican, seems like everyone speaks Spanish.

Our first night in our new home we sat on the back porch and watched an incredible moon rise over a mountain about a mile from us. An awesome and mind-boggling welcome to our new home. Yes, its brand new, not only to us, no-one else has ever lived in it, an experience we have never had in our 33 years together. And, to make it more interesting we have no furniture, that's already caused us to spend a good deal of money. The only piece of furniture for that first night was a brand new bed delivered at 3PM on May 1, the day our lease went into effect. We bought it several days earlier in Nogales. Of course the bed was what allowed us to spend night number 1 in our new home. 

We are also still staying in our Air B&B in Tubac which is just a short drive away. Our time there doesn't run out until May 5th so its a little chaotic right now with one foot in each place. Also a lot of our stuff is in Green Valley in a storage unit so we need to begin ferrying those belongings to our new digs.

This new home provides 3 bedrooms, two bathrooms which is a lot more space than any of the places we've stayed in the last 3-4 months of travel. We are not done with travel so if you are interested where we might go next stay tuned in here. Thinking about Europe, Mexico or who knows where. But we felt the need for a home base rather than constantly living out of suitcases.

Stan the Man