Benson, Arizona

We packed up Saturday morning in Las Cruces, New Mexico and drove 250 miles west to Benson, Arizona, our home until the beginning of December. We have paid for the month and we will move before that, it is much cheaper to pay for a month versus paying by the week. We had no issues with the brakes on the trailer, thank goodness. Dave still has to tweak the disconnect while we are here, it is still a tad too short on sharp turns. We have signed up for Thanksgiving buffet dinner here so at least we will be some sort of 'family' on the holiday. They have so much food that they split the meal up to two different times - one sitting for the main meal and then you come back at 6pm for dessert. I signed up for home made cranberry sauce - a recipe from my maternal grandmother - I think it was one she passed down from her grandmother from England. This is a really nice campground, has everything we could want and level sites. Our view out the living room area is the mountains.

Benson is a small town but has 9 campgrounds. We have already checked out this one as to staying here long term in the winter and decided it is not a fit for us, price is right - but there are train tracks about a mile from here and at times it gets too noisy. There are 5 more campgrounds right in this vicinity - and another 3 up the road are club-type campgrounds meaning that you have to be a member of that particular camping club. We are members of one of them - Escapees - and did check out that place yesterday, they have a 6 to 8 year waiting list to buy a lot which you can either park your rig on or put a small one-bedroom park model. However, it has a great view being tucked into a side of a mountain and you look down into Benson. We do feel that Benson is a tad too far out of the way - if we had to fly back to Cleveland we would have to travel to Tucson or even Phoenix to get a decent flight - too far.

There are hiking trails, birding trails, caverns, copper mine tours to see while we are here - so we will be busy for awhile - until we get bored and want to more closer to Phoenix.