SALTON SEA CHRONICLES, 2011

HERE'S WHAT'S DOWN WITH THE BREHMS AS OF 1/8/11

Greetings, salutations, and happy new year from the West Shore RV Resort, at Johnson's Landing, Salton City CA. We left Pio Pico on 1/6/11 to join our friends at Salton Sea, that we meet up every January. Really nice folks! Beside the fun of the company of these dozen or so friends, we also love the desert scenery, the desert golf, the off-roading, and the occasional trips to civilization. Indio, Westmoreland, Palm Springs and El Centro are just a short hop away. Next week we will attend the FMCA Rally in Indio and a couple of weeks later, we will join the mad assemblage of RVers at Quartzite, AZ. then back here to Johnson's Landing. If you are out in the desert in Jan. or the first half of Feb., please stop in for a visit. We'd love to entertain you.

We wish you a healthy, happy, and stimulating 2011. We count you among our blessings.

Love and God Bless....................Willy & Lobo.................

SALT, SEA, AND MOUNTAINS

Looking from the West Shore to the East shore. The chloride
content of the water and the deposits on the shores soak into
almost everything, and gives the appearance of pillars of salt.
Old pilings sticking out of the water look like shafts of salt.

THE SALTON WATER BIRDS

Are they water fowl, or Water foul? In spite of the polluted seawater, the birds remain
abundant. This picture is shot from the Northwest toward the Southeast.

PREHISTORIC LAUNCHING RAMP

Thirty years ago, Salton Sea, and Salton City specifically, was a planned resort. There were
housing developments, a real estate boom, hotels, even a yacht club. Fishing, water skiing,
and recreational boating. Today, after years of polluting the sea with chemical runoff from
the adjacent agricultural farms, it is pretty much the "Dead Sea". Just a bunch of hard core
desert rats remain in the areas.

GOLF COURSE PROS

Within walking distance of our camp, is a nice little
9 hole desert golf course. The "T"s and greens are
grass, everything else is desert landscape. Green fees
are very cheap. Payment is on the honor system. Clubs
and carts can be borrowed from the unmanned clubhouse.
Posing here for the presentation of their Green Blazers,
Glen, Roger, and Bill.

THE "GANG"

What a fun bunch of folks. From left to right, Radar, Jim, Grace, Diane, Maxine, Glen, Sandy
Roger, and Marge.

EXQUISITE REORT CAMPING

Here lies the very exclusive real estate staked out by our little party so far, (more coming)
From the left, Bill and Nadine, Jim and Maxine, Glen and Grace, Roger and Sandy & Ray and
Diane. Across the trail is Bill, and Don and Marge.

SUNSET AT THE "SEA"

We forgot just how beautiful the days end out
here in the desert. This was a little before 5:00 pm.

MERRY CHRISTMAS FRIENDS AND FAMILY

CHRISTMAS AT PIO PICO

Well, here we are at our "Winter Resort", Pio Pico, in Southern California. We wish you all a wonderful Christmas, New Year, and Holiday Season in general. Here's a few pics of this years RV Christmas at the preserve.

Merry Christmas, friends and family

WIEGATES FROM JAMUL, CA

Yep, we're back at our leased site in Jamul at the Thousand Trails Preserve, Pio Pico. What a wonderful 6 month Odyssey we have had this year. No Planning, flip a quarter at each intersection and see where we wind up. For you sickos that follow our journeys, you know that we left in May, went to Yuma to visit Andy & Linda, then on to Bisbee, AZ to enjoy the company of Mike and Marsha. We went to Deming NM, which many people consider a sentence, but we love it there. From there north through New Mexico through Colorado, Wyoming, and in to South Dakota. We stayed at our favorite, Elk View Campground in Sturgis, and left just before the start of the Black Hills Motorcycle Classic. We headed West through Wyoming, and Montana. We had to stop at the "7th Ranch Campground", very close to the Custer's Last Stand Battlefield. The folks at 7the Ranch are wonderful, we recommend them when you are in the neighborhood. We continued South West through Idaho. We camped in Twin Falls, very close to the famed Evel Knievel Snake River attempt. His braggadocio still lies next to (not over) the Snake River there.

We departed Idaho, and landed in Bend Oregon, at the Sunriver Preserve, where we hooked up with our buds, Gene and Darlene. Then on to Junction City, where we had some updates done to our coach, then on to the coast. We camped at the South Jetty Preserve at Florence , OR. Next was Merlin OR, just outside Grants Pass. Beautiful scenery and Gene got to visit some aunts and cousins. We were southbound now, and while scenic and pleasant, I will skip the details. We made it to our winter home safe and sound. Hope you all had a wonderful summer, and we wish you a happy holiday winter. Please come for a visit if you are in the San Diego area. Love and God Bless...............

Ronny & Nancy......................

THE DAM AND HOUSEBOAT MARINA, BULLARD'S BAR

Off the skinny road from Oregon House to Truckee lies this beautiful lake and dam, Bullard's Bar. A nice place.

MENTADENT GREEN SHOALS AT bULLARD'S BAR

Just adjacent to the Bullard's Bar Dam, are these gorgeous shoals cut from the native limestone of the Sierra Nevada. The color of the water was incredible. Mentadent Green pretty much describes it for me.

DOWNTOWN DOWNEYVILLE, CA.

We took a nice backwoods drive from camp up to Truckee. We took the mountain roads, one of which went through Downeyville. Very small quaint and picturesque.