Mesa, Arizona – February 16, 2009

Another long day of driving – 285 miles between Deming, New Mexico, and Mesa Verde, Arizona. We stayed at the Mesa Spirit RV Resort. This park was paved over and its 1,000 -plus sites housed mainly retired full timers ensconced in their little metal shells, or “park models,” with tiny yards of gravel and kitschy adornment out front. As we waited to be checked into the “resort” we saw many retirees speeding by on their three speed bikes or oversized one speed tricycles. One senior citizen of uncertain age, zipped by on her purple Honda motorcycle, cigarette hanging from her lips, orange hair flaming like a spring globe cactus in the Arizona sun.

With four dogs among us we were covertly watched by the dog pee and poop police. Dogs are not allowed to pee on the street at Mesa Spirit RV Resort. One of our dogs, the mild mannered and ever gracious, Peach, did pee on a street in the “resort.” The offender is pictured above. A neighborhood watch fossil sprang into action at Peach’s transgression and yelled out to the mid-60ish, Lyn, “Young lady, dogs are not allowed to pee on the street at the Mesa Spirit RV Resort. You must be on the right street here for that.” Later, we wondered who lived on the right street for dogs to pee on in Mesa Spirit RV Resort. Probably overnighters such as ourselves. Peach had not peed on our street. We continue to ponder what would have happened had Peach pooped on the wrong street.