Arizona's Profilers

October 2003
Houston Mesa - Payson, AZ

October 7 - 9, 2003. Houston Mesa Camp Ground, Payson Arizona. Don and Maria Costello, our wagonmasters, hosted a most pleasant outing for our first of the season.
Members in attendance included the Costellos, Fullers, Fletchers, Kaufmans, Gillespies, Spigners, Rodgers and the Hoffmans. The Ziminskis made it in for the day and stayed for the pot-luck
The weather was quite cooperative providing cool days and comfortable evenings. The rain held off until our last morning. We visited the Payson Pioneer museum for a docent guided tour. A most interesting collections of artifacts are housed in the museum. We experienced a new Italian restaurant, Cucina Paradisio with specialty pizzas. The Wednesday pot-luck was a "grill-your-own" event with a huge variety of salads and veggies. Following the dinner and business meeting came the dessert and an anniversary cake and ice cream in honor of Barb & Vic Kaufman.
This year we skipped the food service at the Indian casino and instead several ventured to the Randall House in nearby Pine, AZ. Reports indicate it is to be kept on our list of top choice eating establishments.
Thursday morning we repaired the malicious mischief done to the Hoffman’s unit by person or persons unknown, prior to the camp out.