Monday, May 30, 2011
MEGA BIRD
Diane went to Safeway to buy groceries for dinner. Here is what she wants me to grill tonight!
Sunday, May 22, 2011
THREE GUESSES WHERE WE ARE............
We made it! Feels good to be on the road again. We arrived thursday, 5/19 after putting the coach in the shop to get the dash air working again. There is an electrically driven vacuum pump located in the engine compartment which was kaput. Replaced it, cost mostly covered by warranty. We spent the night at the shop and left the next morning. Since our last adventure, we purchased a Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland. It had to be setup for towing behind the motorhome. Mechanical base plate, electrics, and air brake mods. I did it all myself, so the test was on. Mission accomplished. Everything worked great. Hope you are all doing well....
God Bless, Bert & Betty...............
DAT OLE MAN RIBBAH, HE DON'T DO NOTHIN.....
Looking north up the river. Next weekend, Memorial Day, is typically a zoo here. Can't wait. Lot's of fun.
DRY HEAT AND WET WATER
The good old Colorado River at Parker, right behind our campsite. River levels are high, no sand bars, and surprizingly, not a lot of water traffic.
SOUTHSIDE POOL AREA
As you can see, the pool is not crowded at all. It is about 11:00 am on Saturday. Temp probably about 92.
OASIS BAR AT POOLSIDE
The pool area is really neat. There is a full size pool, a kidie's pool and a hot spa on either side of the bar. The bar serves beer, wine, and mixed drinks, plus pub grub, dinner, and breakfast. Beer's are $1.00 for 16 oz. Sports are always playing on the TV's and lot's of karaoke in the evenings.
CAMP EMERALD COVE
This is our campsite at Emerald Cove in Parker, AZ. It's what they call a "Super Site" due to it"s size. I'm pretty sure we could get two 40 footers, and a tow car in here at the same time.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
BACK IN JAMUL
After a great month and a half at the Salton Sea, we are back at our winter site in Jamul. We actually departed Johnson's Landing a few days earlier than planned, but the looming weather patterns motivated us to get over the mountains before the storm. Glad we did! We were all tucked in and cozy when the storm hit. Check out the pictures of hydraulic Pio Pico.
Our health has been pretty good, Diane had some sort of itchy rash for a few days, but it's all gone now, and I managed to get my back out of whack again, but the VA is coming to the rescue.
I've been getting the Jeep all set up for towing, should be done in plenty of time for our summer trip to Tennessee. As some of you know, our typical travel pattern is, drive 6 hours, park for 2-3 weeks, see the sights, then move on another 6 hours away. It will take us months to get to Tennessee, but that's the way we like it. Hope all is well with all of you. Be patient, Spring is on the way.
Love and God Bless...........
Ray, Diane & the fur brothers
SEASONAL CREEK
Behind our winter site at Pio Pico, is a dry creek bed (usually). Today, it is a raging creek, run off from the mountains, especially Dulzura summit.
FORMER ROAD CROSSING
The dry creek bed crosses the road in two spots at Pio Pico. This is one of them after the rain. YeeHaw! white water rapids.
BIRD SANCUARY
This dove, seeking shelter from the storm, roosted outside our bedroom window, under an awning.
Monday, February 7, 2011
SUPERBOWL SUNDAY at the SILLY SALTON SEA
We bring tidings from downtown Salton City, Garden swamp of the desert. Today is a hotty, temps is about 84 degrees at 2:30 pm, Super Bowl Day. The week has been a weather cycle of all 4 seasons in a single week. From freezing and high winds to hot with pleasant breezes. This has been an exciting week. Diane's birthday, she turned 49 again and our friends here all treated her well. This is also the big "Fly In Week", with ultra-lights and paraplanes taking off, landing, and doing touch and go's. Lots of color up there. Sunsets and sunrises continue to be spectacular, and today, the whole group is coming over to our rig to eat, drink, and watch the Packers and the Steelers. Hope you are all enjoying the later days of winter (we can still see snow in the mountains from our rig). Hope your team wins the game and you continue to live every minute of your life..We should be back in San Diego in a couple of weeks. Love, Rocky & Flora.............
Sunday, February 6, 2011
PARAPLANE POWEPLANT
All of the engines I saw were "ROTAX" brand. They come in 2 and 4 cycle, water or air cooled with twin carburation. 2 cycle engines require complete top end rebuild every 500 hours, but appear to be very dependable.
PARAPLANE
You are looking at the sound end of a northbound paraplane. These things are pretty high tech for a toy. 30 MPH, 41/2 hous of flight time, on grounf variable pitch props, and a parawing that inflates when the prop spins.
ROSSIE
Ross is the family dog, he is an "Aussioty", half Australian cattle dog and half California Coyote. We have had him since he was a pup. He will be 19 years old in June. Still a happy camper...
Sunday, January 23, 2011
GREETINGS FROM THE LIZARDS AT QUARTZITE
Hope everybody out there in the real world is having a wonderful time. It's been a pretty good week for us, we saw lawn furniture, barbecues, and Hawaiian shirts on sale at Costco, so we know Spring is on the way. Had a great week with our friends at Johnson's Landing, even had a couple of decent golf games. On Friday, we took off for Quartzite for the annual RV and Rockhound fiesta. Quartzite goes from a quiet little village to a tent covered metropolis overnight. Kind of a mixture of a huge RV rally, Oktoberfest, rock concert and dry camp at the same place and time.
We took delivery of our new/used Jeep Grand Cherokee in Ehrenberg, AZ. Diane enlisted forceful help in motivating me to invest in a more reliable tow/off road vehicle. So, here we are.
Tomorrow, we head back to Salton City to rejoin the gang there for a few weeks, then off to Pio Pico again. Hope you are all doing well, and recovered from the Holidays. Till next update..........
Love, Harry & Nancy.
FULL MOON IN THE DESERT
Before leaving Salton Sea, we were blessed with a
magnificent full moon over the Sea, Indio & Palm Springs. Moon shadows in the desert can be somewhat spooky.
BOX CANYON SHORTCUT
On our trip from Salton Sea to Quartzite, we took
a strawberry shortcut through the "Bad Lands".
Sure glad we did. Weaving in and out of these
barren mud hills was very scenic, and although
it lasted for about 80 miles, we only saw two
other vehicles on the whole trip.
DOWNTOWN CHAOSITE (QUARTSITE)
Nutz! Yea, this place
gets nutz the last couple of
gets nutz the last couple of weeks of January every year. Kind of like Sturgis
is for the bikers, Quartsite is to the RVers. The
desert is wall to wall RVs, many time clumped according to brand or type. There is a huge tent,
similar in size to the Oktoberfest tents in Munich. It is filled with hundreds of vendors peddling every conceivable gadget for your RV.
HAPPY HOUR IN QUARSITE
Some things are just inescapable! Seems like no matter where we are, as the sun settles in the West, Happy Hour appears out of nowhere accompanied by lots of good friends. It happened again here.
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