Ellen & Bernies – Fall 2025

On November 16, 2025, we began the last leg of our journey from Texas to Arizona where we spent the last week of our trip at Ellen & Bernie's.  They've always been so gracious in sharing their home with us when we are in town.

While we were there we made some more good memories.

  • Attended Courtney's open house at her Raw Beauty Lounge Academy
  • Accompanied Karen's Mom and Dad at the Mexican dinner night at Tower Point, along with  Ellen & Bernie.  They had a live band and drinks were $1 apiece for beer and wine.  We played the card game "Swipe" afterwards and Ray & Pat's place
  • Went on a long walk around Mesa
  • Toured Fountain Hills, walked around the fountain and lake, dined at the All American Sports Grill
  • Played golf at Echo Falls with Ken and tied my best score ever, 78
  • Had lunch with Joni and Ken at a nearby restaurant
  • Watched several episodes of Suits and Landman
  • Worked out with Bernie at LA Fitness
  • Had a fun night and dinner out with Bernie, Ellen, Kevin and Dana

This year we decided to store our truck and trailer at a storage facility in Chandler.  We flew home on November 24th, just in time for the holidays!

On this trip we drove:

  • 2154 miles from Edmonds, WA to Dixon, MO,
  • 415 miles from Dixon to Nashville,
  • 792 miles from Nashville, TN to Humble, TX and
  • 1209 miles from Humble to Mesa, AZ,

Totalling 4,570 miles for this trip.  We spent $1508.37 for diesel.