IN QUEUE

Note: These posts are in reverse order. I'll do better next time
The desert was one big parking lot and events center for the off-road crowd at the Tierra del Sol annual event. If you look real hard at the back row, just the other side of the American Flag, you can see our Jeep.
I have a bunch more pictures from our trip which I will try to include in a week or two. Summer is coming, hope to see some of you out there traveling. Stay in touch. Maybe we can hook up somewhere sometime.

TdS HILL CLIMB

Another roadside attraction. The off-road club, Tierra del Sol has it's annual off road event just a couple of miles from our camp. Both sides of the Salton Parkway, the road between Borrego Springs and the Salton Sea, were covered with thousands of Jeeps, buggies, quads, side by sides, and a plethora of hybrid sand machines.

DIANE'S NEW SWEATER

Good friend Sandy Schwarting knitted a sweater for Diane. A welcome gift on those cool evenings in January.

PELICANS ON THE SALTON

The Salton Sea gets smaller each year it seems. There have been problems with the rerouting the Colorado River for irrigation purposes causing the water level to diminish, therefore, the salt, and pollution from farm chemicals are not being diluted. The "Sea" has a lot of tilapia, and used to have corvina, but many have died and washed on to the shoreline. The smell has been a little pungent in the past but seemed much better this year. The pelicans are still here in large number

MOON OVER SALTON CITY

It is really hard to beat a sunrise or sunset in the desert. The bright reds, yellows, oranges and other colors are great. We also enjoyed a nice big, bright full moon while out there. The beauty of the desert is uncluttered, primitive, and peaceful. We love our time there.

THE BIG "60" FOR DIANE

It was nice of Diane to have her birthday the same time as Super Bowl. Each year all the folks come over to our coach to watch the Super Bowl on our outside TV, and celebrate Diane's birthday during a happy hour environment.
This year, the birthday girl turned over a new decade, her 6th.

"FLY IN" WEEKEND

Every year about this time of the year, they promote a "Fly In" in the desert. Mostly motorized parachutes, some with wheeled carts, like the one shown here, and some that are motorized pack packs, which requires take off and landing on your feet. There are also some fixed wing ultra-lights. One of the two landing strips is right at Johnson's landing. The sky is full of these guys so we get a good show.

HAPPY HOUR AT JOHNSON'S LANDING

Here are some of the Happy Hour contestants. From left to right: Jim Dimmick, Bill Van Ornum, Glen Davis, I forgot, Gene McDonough, Steve, I forgot's wife, and Maxine Dimmick. Others not shown are: Grace Davis, Laurie, Diane, Roger and Sandy Schwarting, and yours truly. Great bunch of friends.

WINTER VACATION SPOT

We meet every year here with friends from all over the place that we have met in our travels. Lots of good companionship, golfing, bocce ball, cards, 3:00 pm happy hours, casino buffets, and road trips to the big cities, Indio, La Quinta, etc.

DOWN with the BREHMS, 25 MARCH, 013

Greetings and salutations to all our patient followers. We just returned to Pio Pico (Jamul, CA) after spending Jan, Feb, and a good chunk of March at the Salton Sea. We camped at the West Shores RV Park at Johnson's Landing. I was unable to update the BLOG while there because electronic communication has not been invented there yet, so I will spend some time trying to catch up.

We Wish All of You A Very MERRY CHRISTMAS

DANG NEAR HOME, DEMING, N.M.

So, here we are in Deming, New Mexico, two days drive from San Diego. I'm not sure how long it will take to drive those two days because we tend to spend a lot of time exploring and visiting friends. This years trek is coming to a close, but we are already looking forward to our desert trip to Salton Sea and who knows where in early January through most of February. Hope you are all doing well, and look forward to our next hook-up. Love you all and God Bless....

Good Omen, American Flag at end of the Rainbow

Couldn't help but feeling all cheered up when I went out the door in the morning, here was this beautiful sight. A gorgeous rainbow, and at the end was the American Flag. After all the crap we are going through domestically and abroad, due in large part to our apathy toward American dignity, this Made my day.

Garden spot of Colorado, "Plaza District"

Check out the condition of this sign! It was a harbinger of things to come. The campground we made reservations at, was a ragged old truck machine shop, construction company equipment yard, and behind all the maze and clutter of old truck parts, and excavation equipment, was a weed and gopher hole adorned field with utility pedestals peeking out of the tumble weeds. We could not distinguish the approach to the campsite without walking it first. As it turned out, it was okay, and better than fighting the weather and wind on the highway.

JUST SOUTH OF CHEYENNE

Colorado went by in a whizz. After such a long period in small towns and uncomplicated traffic situations, things changed when we hit Colorado. In one day, driving a 40 foot motor home, towing a Grand Cherokee Jeep, we went through Fort Collins, Denver, Colorado Springs, and Pueblo. I slept well that night.

HEADED WEST AND SOUTH

The roads in the high plains states, Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota are absolutely the best for their condition and structure. You can see the highways forever. They are lightly traveled, four lanes and straight as an arrow.

Land of the Stone Faced Dead Presidents

The weather in Rapid City was not too bad. But bad enough to keep us from doing much sight-seeing. We did manage to make it to Cabella's, a place we always love to tour through.
As cold as it was there, especially at night, there was some guy living in a small 2 person tent, pitched on a field behind a nearby truck stop. We just don't know how good we have it some times.

SNOWY CHRISTMAS TREE REHERSAL

These are some beautiful pines alongside I-90 in Wyoming, South of Gillette. They were dusted with snow, and along with deciduous trees along the rivers and creek beds showing the fall colors of golds, reds, yellows and oranges made for a great view.

OCTOBER SNOW IN WYOMING

After getting our licenses renewed, we left Rapid City, SD, headed west to Wyoming. From Gillette, WY, we headed south to Wheatland, spent two nights, then on through Cheyenne to Colorado. Drove through Fort Collins, Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, to Walsenburg, all in one day. We stopped in Walsenburg for two days due to Thunder Storms and high winds. And yes, there was snow in the mountains all the way.

RANCH HOUSE IN SHERIDAN, WY.

Greetings to all you family and friend followers. We are both well and happy. No mechanical problems. Everything is great.
As you will see in the following pics, we have been doing more driving than usual. The short explanation for this excursion from normalsy is, we had to renew our South Dakota drivers licenses, and wanted to get it done and over before the onset of winter in the high plains. After getting our new floor, we drove from Oregon to Idaho, through Wyoming, and on to South Dakota.