Our New Home In Mesa, AZ

When we first arrived here in Mesa, AZ, it was with the intention of staying for 1 week. We enjoyed it here so much that we extended our stay to 1 month. Then we extended it another month. One source of our enjoyment is the park that we're in. The park, Sun Life, has about 750 sites, about a medium sized place by the standards of the many parks in Mesa. There are lots and lots of activities if you choose to participate. The club house has a large computer room, exercise room, library, billiards hall and more. There's a beautiful heated pool with a very large hot tub next to it. There are tennis courts (we recently took up the game!), basketball courts and shuffleboard courts. There's even a restaurant and bakery on site. Sun Life is an "RV Resort" but it's mostly populated with small mobile homes called "park models." Some are brand new and some go back to the 1970's. We kept find ourselves looking around in the new models and checking out the "for sale" board for the used homes. Eventually we looked at one of the used homes listed for sale. We really liked it and the price was right. After checking out several of the other parks in the area to make sure we wanted to buy here at Sun Life we made an offer on the home. After a little negotiating we settled on a price. There were renters in the home so we had to wait a few weeks to close on it. On Monday, April 2 we handed over a bank check, signed a few papers and had ourselves our first non-moving home in several years! OK, so it did have wheels at one time and COULD move. At least it doesn't bounce when you walk in it like our 5th wheel. We're really excited to have a home base. We're still going to spend our summers in Maine in the RV and we'll come down here for the winters.

The place was in really good shape. Since moving in all we've had to do was fix a leaky p&t ("overflow") value on the water heater and replace the bathtub faucet because the diverter value wasn't diverting much. We also added a new hand held shower head. And just today we bought a new mattress to replace the funky "air bed" mattress that was one of the most uncomfortable things we've ever slept on!

	Our new home at Sun Life in Mesa, AZ. There's a covered carport/patio area and a shed. Our "garden" has a palm tree (like all of the lots here have), a couple of aloe plants and some other desert flora.
	Living room. The place came completely furnished except for the cat on the chair. We had to supply our own.
	The kitchen and dining area. For us the dining area is actually our computer room. We really like the hardwood floors. They were a major selling point for us.
	The bedroom.
	The bathroom.