Buckeye, Arizona.
March 2022 is going to be the last full month of snowbirding in Arizona for us. It’s time for Lynn and me to sell our winter home and move on to new adventures. If all goes as planned, the house in Buckeye will have new owners just before the end of March, and Lynn and I will be on our way back to Fargo. We don’t yet know what next winter will be like, but we expect to be in warmer climates for the winter… we just aren’t sure where yet.
So, what does all of this have to do with the title of this Travel Tuesday post? Completely coincidentally, another North Dakota blogger reached out to me in February and asked if I would share some of my desert photos to accompany a poem she wrote about those beautiful desert vistas. After reading her poem, I was struck by how it resonated with my experiences here in Arizona. Her poem says what I couldn’t put into words about the beauty and history of the deserts of the American West.
By way of introduction, I met Karen in a Facebook North Dakota bloggers group a few years ago. Karen is a writer by trade and lives in Minot, North Dakota. She has published many short stories and her first collection of poetry, “No Boundaries, A Collection of Poetry”, is available in paperback on Amazon. You can follow her blog here.
Without further ado, click on the image below to link to Karen’s site.
John Steiner
Flare Legend Adventures
Good luck with the house sale! I’ll look forward to seeing where you spend next winter, but I’ll miss your Arizona landscapes.
Thanks, Sarah. There will probably be more desert landscapes, but missing those iconic saguaro cactus that live only in the Arizona deserts. >grin<
Love the beautiful clicks.
All the best for your future adventures.
Absolutely beautiful photos!
If you don’t mind my asking: why did you decide not to live in Arizona any more?
I don’t mind at all. It’s not so much Arizona as it is the Phoenix metro. When we bought 10 years ago, Buckeye’s population was around 50,000. It is now estimated to be in the 90,000 range, and projected to be over 300,000 in the not-to-distant future.
We’ve noticed the increase in traffic and the Town of Buckeye changed their charter to become the City of Buckeye. It’s getting too crowded for us North Dakotans. 🙂
We are going to spend a winter traveling the southern U.S. looking for places to winter where we can get back to that smaller town feel and still stay away from those notorious North Dakota winters.
Thank you for sharing my poem as well as my blog and book clicks. I appreciate you, John.
Beautiful photo and poem. I’m incredibly sad that you are selling and moving on, even though I knew you were going to do so. I am meeting two other AZ bloggers if you want to join us on Tuesday, March 8.
I think we should be available. Keep me posted on the details via email, Marsha.
We have mixed emotions with leaving Buckeye, but we are trusting that the move will lead us on to new adventures.
Well you always have a place to stay here or in Scottsdale, should you want.
I just sent you and email. Hope to see you and Lynn at least once before you leave.
Good luck, John! Hope you’ll make a decision for your move soon.