Thursday, April 24th

We started at the CVS Pharmacy parking lot today and headed east on McDowell. We were just north of the downtown Phoenix area. Joe Chott drove us to our starting point.

Joe and Pam Chott are old friends from our St. Louis days. Pam graduated nursing school with Carol and Joe is an avid fisherman, so we all became good friends. They moved to Mesa 24 years ago. After walking on Wednesday, John and Ruth moved to the new RV park and we moved our motor home to Joe and Pam's driveway. We are going to walk tomorrow and then take Saturday and Sunday off. Sunday, Joe and I are going to float and fish the Salt River and on Tuesday we are going to Sedona, which is the most beautiful area in Arizona. We walked on, finally coming to Scottsdale. We knew it was Scottsdale because of the Rolls Royce, Land Rover, Maserati, Ferrari and Aston Martin car dealerships there. We turned on Scottsdale Road and walked on coming to the Salt River and the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. On we walked to Apache Blvd. and on to Mesa where Apache Blvd. becomes Main St. We don't know exactly how many miles we walked today, but our legs said it was 15 or 16 miles. I found .16 cents today. Stayed tuned....