Friday, January 8, 2010

I can't believe I haven't posted since New Years! I can't remember what we did on the 1st but we were still in Earp, CA at Emerald Cove RV park. I think we pretty much stuck around the RV and park. We went for a bike ride in the park in the evening to kind of to say good bye to the park. Here's a photo going down the road from one park to the next.



We left early on the 2nd, heading for Winterhaven, CA and also, really close to Felicity, CA. We pulled in to Pilot Knob RV Park around 12:30 I think and took a spot up close to the clubhouse. I like being close to the clubhouse since I spend so much time there. I took a day or two getting used to the park and to find out what fun things there are to do. This is the park where we're staying till the 16th:



I started a new puzzle in the library and have had lots of fun chatting with those that help with the puzzle. That's a great way to meet people.

The clubhouse has a whole corner for quilters. They make 600 quilts a year and donate them to charities and some are given to the poor people in Mexico. The lady right next door goes into Mexico with clothes and things for the families she sponsors. I asked to ride along next time. I don't know if she'll let me take pictures, but I will if it's allowed. It's called Carboard City and the people are very very poor, have large families and almost nothing to their name.

I've also played pokeno several times in the evening with the ladies and have helped in the quilting corner. I like to cut the fabric into squares and I iron some fabric now and then for them. I'm not into sewing.

I did get out my machine one day while Chuck was at the dentist and did some mending. That was actually kind of fun.

Yup, Chuck went into Algodones Mexico to get some dental work done. He went in on Monday the 4th to have an exam and was in the chair for around 3 hours. In that short a time, they ground down and got 7 teeth ready for crowns. All in one day!!! He went back Tuesday by himself. I didn't want to sit and wait so I spent the day sewing and cleaning. Believe me, that was way more fun! His first day, on Monday, I did spend some time shopping by myself in Algodones so didn't need to do more. Wednesday we both went back so he could get his his crowns and a bridge put in place. That only took a little bit of time. So we went for lunch. That's a 5 tooth bridge and 4 crowns in three days!! The work is beautiful.

Wednesday was Chuck's birthday, too, so he was ready to celebrate with a bloody beer or a margarita after leaving the dentist and believe me he deserved it after what he went through. He couldn't eat for 1/2 hour so we found our favorite restaurant. Open-air ~The Parieso. Think that's how it's spelled. It's such great fun, great food and you always meet so many new people. Here's a few photos of the table of men that invited us to join them and we spent the afternoon with. He had a great birthday.







Our first day out geocaching in this area found us a flat tire. The roads are pretty much dirt/gravel; hey this is a desert here. Chuck was not happy with me since it was all my idea. HE wanted to go shopping. So because it was Sunday we couldn't go back to the place we originally bought the tires, Discount Tires, as they're closed on Sunday, we had to go to WalMart. New tires now so we can do more geocaching. We have found 8 different ones so far.



Today, the 8th we went out geocaching again and found a few more. Here's some photos:







Today, the 8th, while out we visit a museum, The Center of the World museum. Seems Felicity was dedicated as THE authentic center of the world and they erected a pyramid around it. http://historyingranite.org/ Wish I would have gotten a picture of the pyramid. Maybe we'll go back. The web site shows many of the pieces or artwork sandblasted into the granite. Close-ups! Beautiful stuff.


Michael Angelo painting in granite! Georgeous!






This is me and it's facing away from the church and towards the granite monuments.

After we left the museum is when we did some geocaching. One was called "Jack and Jill" so we figured there would be some hill climbing. Yup! Clear up the side of a rock mountain! BUT we made it. Chuck got to the top first and found the cache. I didn't know I could do that. Seemed straight up on the rocks....seemed like it. Here's a picture of the so called hill we climbed. There was quite a walk from the car to the hill and then the climb and then back to the car. We forgot water! Reminded me of the cartoon where you see the guy crawling on his stomach saying "wateeerrrr!"



This is tired Frank........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz or is it purrrrrrrrrrr?

Happy New Year!

Today is New Years Eve day! We have a prime rib dinner to go to tonight with drinks and dancing in the clubhouse and/or karaoke in the bar. This is the life, huh? Just a matter of a few steps to the clubhouse or bar for us.

I've got some pictures to post but haven't downloaded them yet. Will do that soon and hopefully when we have better connectivity.

We went out geocaching yesterday and out of two we looked for, we found one! Yes, our first cache find. I forgot the camera so didn't get any pictures but will remember it next time. It was a cookie tin with lots of trinkets in it. We could take something and leave something, sign the log book and put it back. We left a Schucks receipt from Puyallup, WA but didn't take anything. There was actually lots of little trinkets in there. I saw army men, candycane pen, frig magnets; things like that. Then when you find a cache, you go online to geocaching.com and post your find. We're keeping our own personal log, too. Maybe we'll get out today if I can drag him away from the TV.......football, you know.

We're having nachos for lunch with a beer! The sun is shining and it's prettier outside than it is....the wind is picking up but it sure is nice in the sun.

So HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Monday, December 28, 2009

Here's a sunny day in Earp, CA. We played a little cribbage outside that day, yesterday, and went for a nice long walk.



Here's another beautiful sunset. I take these pictures from the LR in the RV. Gorgeous!




This last one is Frank and our Christmas tree. Jen took a picture of his sister when she was just a kitten and was peeking out from inside the tree. Frank maybe could have done that then, but now, he's almost as big as the tree. He's a big big 21 pound boy!



We have tickets to a prime rib dinner in the clubhouse on New Year's Eve and then a dance afterwards. Can't wait. Then we leave this park on Saturday and head for Winterhaven, CA to the Pilot Knob RV park. Chuck has a dentist appointment in Algodones, MX for Monday. Crowns are $250! What do you pay in the states? Root canals are $250-$350! Xrays and first exam are free. Will keep you posted on this. Winterhaven is just a hop, skip and a jump from the border. We'll park on the US side and walk over.

Sunday Geo Day !

We went out geocaching today. We took our GPS Navigator and our laptop and headed to Rio Mesa Drive! We came really close to finding it, whatever "it" is; we know we did but really need the hand-held GPS that's on it's way to us right now. When we do find it, we're supposed to sign the log and put it back for the next person to find.

We'll go back after we receive the hand-held and after learn how to use it and I know we'll find it then. It was fun today without the hand-held so I KNOW we're going to love this new hobby.

I went up to the clubhouse today to get myself out and away from this laptop. All I did was move from one chair to another but it felt good to get some fresh air and a little bit of a walk going up there. Got to socialize a little and got 1/2 the puzzle done. Whoever started it will be a little surprised. I went for a 20 minute walk before supper, too.

Last night I went up to the clubhouse to listen to the country band that was playing. Great music but I got bored so went over to the bar for karaoke. Chuck stayed home to watch football. Seems to be his favorite pastime now. In fact, there's a game on right now and, of course, there's the Vikings game tomorrow night. Anyway, had a glass of wine and enjoyed listening to all the people sing. I did not sing. Haven't gotten up the nerve just yet.

Maybe I'll get some photos taken tomorrow. Not sure what we're doing but might go into Parker just to walk around town.

Saturday, December 26, 2009

We went to Quartzite the other day to check out all the venders but it was a little cold and windy so we'll go back another time.

We found several nice places to try boon docking in a few weeks when we need to do that. We think it would be fun to try and hey, it's free! We did sign up for the Gold Pass from the Nat'l Forest Service Parks so we can get into all parks for free now. And the BLM land where people boon dock is either free or like $5 a week or something. Of course, you don't get anything.....no water, electric, sewer or TV. We'll need to make sure our propane tank is full, our water tank is full and will use the satelite dish for TV and the generator if we need too.

So we stopped for lunch at Sweet Darlene's cafe and had burgers. Here we are waiting for our food.




These photos were taken today during our warm spell and after our bike ride.







Here's a sunset from a couple nights ago.

Monday, December 21, 2009

Boy, can't believe it's been over a week since I last posted but I've had lots of computer problems and connectivity problems. Sometimes it's not fun!

Since my last post we went to Davis Dam and



Grapevine Canyon, both just outside of Bullhead City, AZ.

It was a pretty little canyon, extremely windy, but very pretty with lots of petroglyphs all over the place.





Here's Chuck and I being silly:





December 19th, we moved from Bullhead City, AZ to Earp, CA. We are now in the Emerald Cove RV Resort. We spent about a week here last year and it's where I sang karaoke for the first time! We got here around 1 o'clock Saturday and were early enough to get in on a wonderful steak dinner and some fun in the bar. I din't sing karaoke; not yet! LOL



I'll get better pictures of our motorhome and site in the next couple days. It so nice here. NO WIND!! Yea! But we are having a cloudy chilly day today. Yesterday, Friday, was beautiful an I'm sure it'll come back. We'll be here till January 2nd. We have a ham dinner at the clubhouse for Christmas day and a prime rib dinner and dance on New Years!

This resort has breakfast every morning in the clubhouse, card playing most of the day, bingo and line dancing a few times a week, dinner almost every night, tomorrow night is Phylly cheese sandwich. They eat a lot here and the prices are so cheap!

We might go up to the bar for the Monday night football on TV. There's hot dogs, chili dogs, chicken wings, wine, beer and quarterly drawing for prizes. I really think Chuck will want to stay here. He likes to watch important games with no interruptions.

More later. Maybe I'll be able to get online and it won't be a week again before I get back.

We're having a wonderful time. From here on the 2nd, we go to Winter Haven, CA to a resort called Pilot Knob and is really close to the MX border. We park on the US side and walk over. We'll be there for 6 days and maybe more. If they can't accommodate us, we'll move to another park.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!