We pulled out of the storage lot this morning at 7:30. We spent quite a bit of time yesterday packing food, clothes, and gear. Kevin’s new hobbies of 3D printing and his astro photography equipment took quite a bit of space, but it all fit in nicely. We pretty much empties the freezer, deep freeze, and refrigerator so we won’t have to shop as often. I have lots of individually frozen packages of uncooked chicken breast and chicken thighs, nicely protected with the vacuum sealer. There is also brisket, smoked turkey, roasted turkey, and smoked pork butt in meal sized portions. Add in frozen vegetables, and we are pretty well set. We also have a lot more canned good and dry goods than normal. I want to grocery shop no more than once a week, and we should be able to do that.
The forecast for today said good weather along our trip until 10-11, but that icy rain/sleet started early. I drove 35-45 mph for probably 50 miles until the weather and roads improved south of Des Moines. The rest of the way was smooth sailing, though we had some winds as we left Kansas City. We are safely tucked in at the Topeka KOA, a place I do not recommend. Their long pull through are right next to the Kansas Turnpike; the highway fence is about 40-50’ from our door! Not only is it noisy, but the interior roads are truly awful with big ruts. It is just for a night so we can manage. I will definitely look for an alternative the next time we go this way though. Kevin got the rig dewinterized, and we have water and heat. What more can I ask for? Oh, and we even got the Dish satellite restarted, always a bit of a trial after suspending service.
Lily settled in about 5 minutes. She sat on Kevin!s lap a lot, and she slept in her carrier (one of her favorite places). She is now sleeping on top of the carrier quite soundly.
Since the last post got so long with just seeing things, I decided to add another post about travel and some other things.
We ended up taking a couple of short trips to a nearby county park for to be closer to Kevin’s cataract surgeon. Squaw Creek Park in Linn County, Iowa is one of our favorites. First, it has nice facilities (a FHU section with reservations and a W/E section with no reservations), and second, it is close to two of our kids. We end up doing a reasonable amount of our medical specialty work in Cedar Rapids, Iowa because we know the doctors there. It is about an hour from our house though, so we head to the campground if any overnights are needed. We stayed there in early October and mid-October for 5 days each time, just enjoying the weather and seeing family (outdoors and distanced of course).
We also ended up taking another trip to Red Bay. The slide topper on our big living room slide tore where it was attached to the roof, and the minor fix Kevin made just wasn’t going to last. While we could probably have found someone closer, we had lots of recommendations for a specific firm in Red Bay, so off we went. Of course it could have been just an excuse to get out of the state a bit too, as my oldest son laughed about. We did get gorgeous upgraded slide toppers on all four sides. We decided on a dark red Sunbrella fabric that matches the motorhome very well and which is much tougher than the original vinyl. I thought I had pictures, but I can’t find them. Too bad, because the color is amazing.
Kevin has spent all kinds of time doing things in the motorhome. He managed to fix the roller blind on the driver side with a free part from the blind manufacturer. Tiffin only wanted to sell the entire assembly for some $300!
Just replaced the black end
He mostly has been busy making all kinds of 3D printed parts for organization, mostly at home. This is just a small sample. Every holder on the pegboard was printed.
Plus some Christmas things.
We didn’t put up a Christmas tree this year, just our 10’ long Christmas village. This little display fit right in. It is actually cuter than it looks since my camera isn’t great with white in bright light.
As for Thanksgiving, I was able to cook loads – roast turkey, pies, and stuffing. Kevin smoked a couple of turkeys that mostly went into the freezer in smaller portions. I then delivered to my daughter’s family (they just moved into a new house the weekend before!) and my son who is single. I delivered two portions to him because a workmate was also by themselves this season. We are having a virtual Christmas this year too, though I am not supplying food. Presents are being distributed today, and we are having a Zoom opening later today.
As for future travel, we have been back and forth for months trying to decide if we are traveling to Arizona. We just decided to do so a couple of days ago. Our original plan was to leave on 28 or 29 December, but a storm is rolling into the Midwest then. We now plan to leave on Sunday, the 27th. We will get to central Kansas somewhere on Sunday then head to Oklahoma City a few days where I have family. I am crossing my fingers we stay out of the snow belt, but if it happens, we will just stay put another day or two.
I obviously am not terribly motivated to keep up the blog when we aren’t traveling, so it has (again) been weeks since I updated. I will try to catch up. Warning: there is a bunch!
I finally got caught up on my donation sewing, and I am taking a serious break. I made 20 isolation gowns of a horrid fabric that turns out to be designed for outdoor signs! It was a very heavy double knit fabric, and a bear to sew. Each gown took 2+ hours, so it was a considerable amount of work. I didn’t take any pictures because I don’t want any nightmares of them! I also finished a box of “Button Buddies” which are small absorbent pads to fit around a pediatric g-tube. Those were for The Preemie Project, and I completed 600 of them.
The top one is the sample. The rest I sewed.
I was also very lucky that my son in law dug out a garden for me, and a daughter in law helped me choose plants and planted most of them! It is a shady spot facing north, so shade lovers only. Obviously lots of different types of hostas, coral bells, azaleas, variegated redbud shrub, Sweet William, and some others I can’t remember.
Left an empty spot for some type of garden ornament
Still did some more piecing. I got a new die for my Accuquilt cutter, a 7” (finished) Drunkard’s Path. I ordered a fat quarter collection from Connecting Threads, and here is the first sample I made. I am thrilled! Everything went together perfectly. It certainly helps to have perfect cuts.
Look at those perfect seams
I started saying we were traveling, but gave no information. We took a trip to Badlands National Park for Kevin to take night sky photos of the Milky Way around a new moon. We left on a week ago on Wednesday morning, and spent the night in Fairmont, MN at the Flying Goose campground. Nice little place with lots of long term residents, but well kept and good sized sites. Thursday we stayed in Al’s Oasis campground in Chamberlain, SD. Not bad, but more open and close to the highway. We then made it to Badlands on Friday morning. The NPS concessionaire campground is Cedar Pass. It is a series of loops with bump outs along the road for sites; the vast majority would never have held a rig as big as ours. Site 76 fit us fine, though we had to wiggle around some to get in. It is an odd site where we had to drive to the site the wrong way down the road so the door didn’t open into the street. I liked the view from the campground.
Nice view at sunsetRather dramatic shapes
We saw lots of wildlife, as expected. In addition to the ones pictured, we saw bats, an owl, and we heard coyotes. There was a large nursery herd of bison I didn’t get a good picture of. There were also a number of bachelors showing off. This guy was getting a belly scratch on a post.
We saw a surprising number of mountain sheep in at least two separate nursery herds and one herd of males.
Part of the first nursery herdThis girl was grazing by the road. We passed by 5’ from her in the car without her acknowledging our existence.As good a close up as my little camera can take
Kevin found the guys, and this is from his (much better) camera.
It rained much of the time we were there, so we had to time our sightseeing carefully. The pictures show at least some of the beauty.
Vast areas of badlandsLots of color in the Yellow Mounds areaVistas as big as the skyDeeply erodedThe tablelands were quite green
The whole purpose of coming was to get some Milky Way pictures, and the rain and clouds were bad until the very last night. Kevin got some spectacular pictures, though they need some post processing to get their full glory (he shoots in RAW format). Here is a taste.
Galactic core with the landscape highlighted by a passing carlightThe Milky Way core can only be seen in its entire glory in the summer. Saturn is the bright spot center bottom.
Since we lucked out with the weather on Monday night, we left this morning happy. We are staying in the KOA in Sioux Falls, SD. Pretty place with lots of trees and a huge pull through. We paid with points because $66 was expensive! Full hook up, and we will prep the rig for its next trip to Alabama next month. Oh, and while we were gone, I cut 80 blocks of Drunkard’s Path for Kevin’s lap rug. Two thirds of them are sewn, and I am very happy with my progress. I probably could have finished them tonight, but I thought I would write instead. Taking the Accuquilt and some dies seems like a very reasonable thing on long trips.
We are still semi-isolating, it it is a lot better than full isolation. The local medical facilities are managing well, and the local hot spot is a meat packing plant that we have no interaction with. We are going to the grocery store by ourselves now, and it is so wonderful to choose fresh produce! We have ordered more takeout too. We wear masks everywhere outside except in our own car, and I made some more masks of a fitted style since Kevin has issues with his glasses fogging up. I even bought a die from Accuquilt to speed up production. I keep refining my design. This is the most recent.
Accuquilt die cut, bound with 1 1/2” double fold binding.
To get an even better fit I am going to put a small dart on the side. It has a tendency to gap there.
I have also been cooking. We ordered an Air Fryer lid for our Instant Pot, and it finally got delivered after 6 weeks (Amazon u essential items). It certainly does make good crispy things like tater tots are brilliantly. I made onion rings from scratch that were pretty good too, but I overcooked my diced potatoes. Live and learn. Kevin has been sous vide cooking steaks and a pot roast. Love the steaks, but the pot roast was bland even though he seasoned it. I think I will go back to doing that on the stove or in the Instant Pot.
My Accuquilt adventures continue. I got a great deal on a 12” Qube that makes bigger blocks like I will be using on our bedroom quilt. I also ordered a Drunkard’s Path die and a 1 1/2” strip cutter. Those haven’t come in yet, so I am working on my piecing skills. I still have a ways to go. Here are some examples and comments. And yes, I am being hard on myself. I really want my piecing to move up a notch. I picked up the fabric at a local shop, and the blocks will eventually become a baby girl quilt.
Flying Birds block looks good, but the first one ended up too small. This is the first and second one showing the difference.See the 1/8-3/16” size problem in the closeup?This is a Flying X block. It came out the correct size too. What a bear to put together though. Won’t make more of this one!Dutchman’s Puzzle looks better. Best flying geese I have ever done, but still needs some improvement.
I have also been sewing some isolation gowns, but my serger is having issues. I can’t seem to get any of the repair folks to call me back! Frustrating. Oh, and I made 7 masks for a local non-profit. I intended to make more, but they didn’t get my fabric pieces put together well. They were the Olson masks with a spot for a filter. Hard to sew!
We did break our isolation to spend Mother’s Day weekend at a local lake. The Friday before my daughter called to say a campsite was open and to ask if we wanted it. We instantly said yes and began getting ready. It was a lovely weekend, and it was so nice to see a different view outside. We are looking forward to a couple of trips this summer, so we got our yearly diesel maintenance done at a local Freightliner shop. We also had them install the Koni shocks we bought a few months ago. They make a huge difference! The coach seems a bit smoother, and it doesn’t wiggle when we hit rough roads and pot holes. Our next trip is to Badlands NP in mid-June, and we will drive I-90 which is very bumpy, so the shocks should help. Kevin got reservations at the NP campground during the week of the new moon. He is looking to get some astrophotographs of the Milky Way which is at its best this time of year.
Yes, it has been a while. The last post was made from Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona, an absolutely beautiful, isolated place surrounded by mountains. I am writing this update from our house in Iowa, and it has been 7 weeks or so. I had better note what happened.
We left Kofa and decided to go towards Grand Canyon National Park. We spent the night of 3 March south of Lake Havasu at a BLM site. Not very scenic, but fine for an overnight. It was very unlevel though and a pain to get the rig parked well. We were planning on going to one of the many boondock areas south of GCNP, but Kevin decided to see if Trailer Village had any openings. Surprise, surprise – they did! We stayed there for 5 nights in a full-hookup campground. We got our laundry done, caught up with some streaming shows, and wandered around the park and surrounding areas.We even road the bikes quite a bit. It was a good thing we didn’t depend on the boondock sites. Everything was terribly rutted and muddy with snowmelt, and we wouldn’t have fit comfortably in any place we looked at.
Mountain bluebird decided to poseGotta have at least one canyon shot
We were just marking time until the FMCA Diesel Club Chapter meeting, and we decided to stay in the Yavapai FS campground outside Prescott. Lovely place, no reservations that early in the season, but the site was pretty cramped due to encroaching vegetation along the sides. It rained and rained, and we were very glad to have a solid surface site in a beautiful place. No pictures because it really did just rain and rain and rain with a little snow thrown in.
By this time, we were getting nervous about the virus spread. The last time I was hospitalized in 2016 I ended up almost dying in an ICU, and I actually have some PTSD from it, so my anxiety began to ramp up. States were beginning to shut down, and the kids were worried about us being so far from home. After much though and agonizing over the decision, we decided to cancel our attendance at both the Diesel Club and the main FMCA rally. It was the right move even though we lost hundreds in fees. We spent our first night on the road, 13 March, at Verde River Resort in Camp Verde. We got the coach cleaned, laundry done, and were ready to dry camp back to Iowa if needed. Instead we spent our first night on the road at American RV Park in Albuquerque. Nice place, and we have stayed there before. The next two nights were at Cabela’s in Lone Tree, CO south of Denver and in Kearney, NE (very nice!). Taking the toll road east of Denver was a brilliant move, worth every penny of the cost. We parked the coach in the storage unit and collapsed in bed in the house which always seems so huge when we first arrive!
My anxiety has still been pretty high in the last month which is why I haven’t gotten around to posting. Things are beginning to calm down due to more information being available, and I am getting along pretty well now. We have cancelled our Alaska trip planned for this summer. We also delayed until late July some motorhome modifications we are going to have done in Alabama. Until then we are self-isolating as much as seems reasonable. I have been busy in the sewing room, but I will post about that later.
That is the end of this topic, at least for now. Tomorrow I will post a much more positive piece about how I have been surviving isolation.
After getting ourselves all cleaned up -laundry, grocery shopping, dumping waste tanks, filling up fresh water – we headed to Kofa National Wildlife Refuge to meet friends. This is yet more classic boondocking. We stay on a spot off of King Valley Road, about a mile from US 95, 30 miles south of Quartzsite. Kofa stands for “King of Arizona”, the name of a significant mine in the area. They stamped their bullion with the initials, and it stuck. And yes, the refuge is capitalized as I show it here (weird I know). We arrived on a Wednesday just after lunch, and we stayed until this morning, an entire week.
We mostly just relaxed, but we did do some 4WD roads in the area. The trip to the North Star Mine (and driving by the nearby King of Arizona) was the highlight.
Bell shaped greenish white flowersDouble good x flowers and a lizardThese were probably the most numerousLots of these too in big bushes, especially near the roadMore than one hereThe ocotillos were mostly past blooming. I find them the most interesting structural plant.
Oh, and there were some interesting ruins too.
A little window above North Star MineNorth Star Mine. Much larger than it appears in this picture. The tanks were probably 10’ high or more.Close up of part of King of ArizonaA big picture view of the part of King of Arizona we could seeA very old “tank” along the road to North Star used to hold water for wildlifeAn old well bore, maybe 8” in diameter. We put the cap back onPile of soft white material, maybe 30’ x 20’.
I have no idea what the white stuff is. The best I found out is a reference to a well 5 miles south of King of Arizona and supported an ore concentrator. I saw no signs of a mill, but there were some old metal fragments characteristic of the time. The well and white pile were right next to an obvious spring, so my guess is this is the concentrator.
We took a trip on another day to the Horse Tanks. They are natural water holes that have been enlarged by the Wildlife Service for game. Another gorgeous area.
The water from the hills comes down the wash resulting in lush vegetationThe start of the trail to Horse TanksThe Jeep in the landscape. Love the ocotilloJust an interesting weathered area in the rocksThe lower Horse Tank. There is another above the pour over shown.
I have also been sewing. I have completed 3 quilt tops to be donated at the FMCA rally, so I haven’t only been goofing off. Oh, and I have gotten Kevin addicted to the Australian series Brokenwood Mysteries. I either download them (poor service spot) or stream them (good service location).
We moved to Sunset campground in the Furnace Creek area. I was astonished to get what I consider the best site in the entire place – F1. It faces East so you get the morning sun but you have protection from the hot afternoon sun. It is also at the end of a row with nothing but a driveway between you and the mountains. We stayed for 7 nights, and we considered staying longer.
We did the must-see drive to Badwater Basin after a rain. Note the reflections.
Looking to the north at the boardwalkLooking to the south shows the snow touched Panamints
Artists Drive and the Artists Pallette
So many colors
Kevin took a trip to the Keane Wonder Mine again. I stayed at the coach and quilted.
We took what is probably my favorite backcountry 4WD road, Greenwater Road to the old mining communities of Furnace, Kunze, and Greenwater. Furnace had nothing left except a few sun bleached pieces of wood since it had been a tent city. Kunze was the small town, but had some great stone remnants.
Still with part of its roof timbers at KunzeSomeone has carefully selected some artifacts for the insideThere were other ruins in not as good of shape
The town of Greenwater was full of artifacts. This was the biggest of the communities, and it obviously spread out over a large area.
This is the “monument” to Greenwater at what was the towns main intersectionThis type of debris was all over the square mile or so of the town
The Greenwater road had more animals than we had previously seen with numerous lizards running across the road and quite a few antelope squirrels. The squirrels look like small but very round ground squirrels except their very short tail (creamy white on the underside) held curled above their backs. They were very fast, and I never was able to get a picture. They were new to me this trip. The road was also a real 4WD road with big rigs that needed a high clearance vehicle and good climbing ability. The Grand Cherokee Trailhawk handled it like a pro. I am feeling more and more confidence in the vehicle’s abilities.
The weekend we were there was the Dark Sky Festival. There were scientists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Goddard Space Center, and more plus two local astronomy groups. The talks ranged from deep scientific topics to a kid’s activity of building their own Mars Rover model (quite popular I might add) to guided hikes to Star Wars filming sites (Golden Canyon). Death Valley has been used to test extraterrestrial vehicles for many years, and there were lots of stories about them. Most of the astronomy and astrophotography activities got rained out (DVNP got almost 1/4” of rain on Saturday), but we did go to one ranger program on Sunday night. Kevin has been playing around with astrophotography, and I love looking at his shots. Sadly I can’t show them to you in full glory due to size.
At the Mesquite Sand DunesThe adobe ruins at Harmony Borax Works
The Dark Sky Festival was very interesting, and I think we will plan on going again next year.
We left on a Monday and headed to Needles, CA as I noted in the previous post. We stayed for two nights at the KOA, and caught up on laundry, shopping, and the internet! I hadn’t had unfettered access for weeks which is the reason for the delay in posts. We are now at the Kofa Wildlife Refuge in a boondock site on King’s Road, about halfway between Quartzsite and Yuma. We don’t know how long we will stay, but it is glorious here.
Warning: picture heavy. This is the first of two posts about our sojourn in Death Valley.
We are now in Needles, CA at the KOA. We got some shopping done, and we are just finishing the sixth load of laundry! Before I talk about recent things, I will post some pictures from Yuma and the promised Howling at the Moon concert.
Lots of people attendedBand stage. There was a US flag too, just not in the picture. Lots of Canadians winter in Yuma.
Now back to Death Valley. We spent 5 nights at Stovepipe Wells, arriving on Wednesday, 12 February. This is a much smaller campground than Sunset, but it has real tent sites and was very popular. There is a 10 site full hookup campground operated by the concessionaire, but we stayed in the NPS no-hookup campground. Nice wide and long sites were available along one side of the campground for big rigs like ours. Many of the sites would have been a bit short for us, so I was glad the camp host worked so hard to keep the longest sites for us big guys.
The concessionaire also operates a motel, restaurant, saloon, and souvenir shop. The saloon has good drinks and enjoyable bartenders, but the food (burgers only) was so so. The restaurant was better. The store sells snacks and prepackaged sandwiches, no real food. If you come to DVNP, you better be prepared! Normally there is a bit of WiFi at Stovepipe near the registration desk, but they had none this time, not even for the guests. I understand a power problem earlier in the year had damaged some equipment.
When we arrived at about 3:00 pm we had no trouble finding a site. During the holiday weekend it was just about full every night though. We didn’t do as much driving as we originally planned (just being lazy with magnificent weather), but we did see “wild” burros in the town of Beatty. After all, everyone needs to visit the Death Valley Candy Store. They have a huge selection of prepackaged candy, nuts, and dried fruit. We ended up with some divinity and some licorice.
Just wild enough to walk away as we drove by
We drove up to Wildrose, an old CCC camp still used by the park service. The road to Wildrose is paved, and it goes past a number of old mining sites. I took pictures in November so I won’t repeat them. They are worth a stop though. The road is paved all the way to Wildrose.
Old buildings still in use.
interestingly enough there was a burro here too. Note the open door of the corral. The hay may have been to attract other burros so they could be relocated.
He is kind of cute though
We then drove the few miles to the charcoal kilns on a good gravel road. There was still some snow in sheltered spots, but the weather at this elevation was a balmy 55 or so.
The kilns has lots of vent holes. These were stopped up during a burn.The masonry work itself was interestingThey were in great shape, better than any other charcoal kilns I have seen.You can see these were big. The charcoal was used in nearby mining sites
You can see into the Sierra Madres quite well. Mount Whitney is there somewhere.
The Panamints in the foreground, then the Inyos and at last the Sierra Madres.
On Sunday we went to the Racetrack. The road was much better this time than on our previous visit a 2-3 years ago. It is required that you get a picture of the moving rocks.
For scaleAnd they are off …
“The Grandstand” sits at the start of the Racetrack. You just see the top of a large mountain that is mostly buried in ancient sediment. We didn’t get pictures of Ubehebe Crater since it was so crowded.
People show the scale
On Monday, 17 February we made our way to Sunset campground. I will put that week in its own post.
No pictures because we have very limited internet here at Craggy Wash BLM campground north of Lake Havasu.
We stayed at the Fortuna de Oro RV Resort in Yuma for a week. This is the first time we have stayed at a real upscale resort. My, but they can keep you busy! There are clubs for every interest, live music most afternoons/early evenings, planned Happy Hours, pickleball leagues and tournaments, softball, a golf course (but we don’t golf), etc. Quite impressive. We took the opportunity to listen to music a few evenings, I visited the quilt group twice (they have their own room at the resort), and we road our bikes around and around. This place is huge with about 1200 sites. Many are year around places, either park models or RVs, but there are a number of people here for a few days or a few months. We actually liked it so much we are pretty sure we will plan for two months there next year, February and March. Too early to make any final decisions though because the reservations aren’t refundable!
While in Yuma we also wandered around the town some. Decent restaurants, more shopping than I remembered from some day trips we made before. We did get the motorhome washed and waxed. Papi’s RV Wash gave very good results, but they were hours late! They were able to get rid of the brush marks on the side from close encounters tears with bushes and trees. The coach looks wonderful! We also went to a local community theater presentation fo Godspell, fun though pretty amateurish, and last night we went to an outdoor concert known as “Howling at the Moon”. Yup, 3000 people in lawn chairs listening to music, talking with friends, and, when the full moon came up over the mountain, howling at the moon. They do it once a month. We got to see some of our friends from Quartzsite so it was extra fun.
We were on the road from Yuma to Quartzsite by 10:00. Our black tank has not been draining well, so we set up an appointment to have the black and the gray tanks power flushed by “The RV Procologist” (love the name). It turns out the problem was that Lily had managed to put a sock in the toilet and we must have flushed it down in the dark! We can’t figure out any other way it could have gotten there. We have found a few of her stuffed mice in the toilet bowl in the past, but obviously this one must have been done at night. Oh, and they offered us the sock back, but I declined LOL!
We then drove on to a BLM dispersed camping site know as Craggy Wash. It is so lovely I wish I could put up pictures. Only a mile off Hwy 95 right at the north edge of the Lake Havasu airport, it is very quiet even though there are a number of rigs ranging from vans to a teardrop to trailers, fifth wheels, and motorhomes. Only a couple of generators going, and I hope they stop soon. Tomorrow morning early we are heading to Death Valley, hoping to spend a few days at Stovepipe Wells followed by another few days at Furnace Creek. We have seen a few flowers in the southern area beginning to bloom, and I am hoping to see some good blooms in DVNP.
I will post some more pictures if I get service at Stovepipe, but it is iffy.
We have been here for almost 3 weeks, and we are leaving tomorrow for a full-hookup resort-style snowbird park. It will be quite a change from the lovely quiet desert, but both types of places have their advantages and disadvantages. I am looking forward to doing my laundry in my own washer and dryer!
I ended up removing the stitches in my hand myself. However there is a tiny piece that didn’t come out! I am going to have to dig it out soon. It has impacted my ability to ride my bike, so today was the first time I really took it out. Kevin and I rode to Bad Boy’s restaurant in Quartzsite and had one of their nice breakfasts. The weather today was actually so warm I couldn’t sit comfortably outside in the direct sun (83 by one account). However the weather is changing. We have a strong wind, and a cold front is on the way. Tomorrow’s high is supposed to be 50, so quite a change.
The weather has been a challenge for Kevin to take some good night photos. We did get a few clear nights though.
Milky Way and saguarosPretty impressive view of the Milky Way from just outside our motorhome. Note the aircraft lights that were captured.Blow it up to see the mountains, moon, and Venus
I will also provide a bit of info about the rally. We had at least 35 people show up in over 20 rigs. Some were here for a few days, others for weeks. We are a loosely organized group. There was one 4 WD trip that we didn’t take, a daily 2 mile walk in the morning, and Happy Hour around the campfire each night of the Big Tent RV show. Smaller groups visited the favorite restaurants (Bad Boy’s for breakfast and Silly Al’s for pizza or lasagna), visited the show, drove to the wildlife refuge, or visited Castle Dome. I must admit the quiet this week, the week after the show, has been lovely!
Oh, and I almost completed a baby quilt out of scraps. I still have to apply the binding, but that is all thanks left. I will post it when it is all done.
