Friendly Pines

Jo's family has this great story about a young English man who was sent to Arizona to learn to fly fighters during the war, and who jokingly promised to return and marry the daughter of the family he was billeted with. Unfortunately Jo's Uncle Jack has since passed but his wife (the daughter!) Bebe still runs the Friendly Pines camp out in the Arizona forest, and we went and stayed with Megan, Jo's second cousin, who is learning the ropes to continue the family business. She just picked up her new rescue dog, and little Sadie was the cutest thing going, although older Ginger was a bit confused by this new bundle of energy.

As much as we love Elvis it was again so nice to spend some time in a real house, particularly cooking in a proper oven. We did some hiking up Spruce Mountain and even dusted off the running shoes to further explore the beautiful forests.

We were there over Halloween so we went down to the posh Mount Vernon Street, along with the rest of the town, for an incredibly extravagant spooktacular evening.Read more