Travel Plans

We have been busy making plans for our trip. While it sounded like fun to just take off and not make any reservations and just wing it, the cost would have been too high. Since we own several camping memberships that provide us with no or low cost camping sites that is what we are going to use. We have found that this takes some long term advance planning. But we think we have it covered.

Our first stay will be at Desert Pools RV Resort in Desert Hot Springs, CA. This is in the Palm Springs, and Joshua Tree National Park area. We will be there for two weeks (this is the max time at our membership parks), giving us plenty of time to explore.
The next stay will be at a commercial RV park near my Dad's house in Tucson. The name of the place is South Forty RV Ranch. On our way to Tucson we are going to stop in Quartzsite and Buckeye,AZ.

After Tucson we will be spending the next three weeks in the Benson and St. David, AZ area at two resorts Valley Vista and Western Horizons St. David RV Resort. This is in the Tombstone and Bisbee area. A visit to Karchner Caverns is also in our plans.

The next stay on our adventure will be at Pilot KnobRV Resort in Winterhaven,CA (this is across the Colorado River from Yuma). But to add to the adventure we are staying a couple of nights in the small Arizona town of Ajo (pronounced ah-ho) we'll let you know how it is.

This puts us at about mid trip we have more plans that I'll share in the next couple of weeks. My plan is to insert these stops on the map in the right column of this blog so you can see where we are on the map. I also plan to change the location of the weather sticker to show the conditions we are putting up with, probably not for the short stays but surly for the stays of a week or more.

Anyway this is a start, More Later, Rich

Shout Box upgrade

OK just for you Gail, I upgraded the shout box so now you can enter up to 300 characters (letters, numbers, spaces, etc) into a message. If you have more to say just post it (shout) and pick up where you left off in a new message. Or you can always go to the comment link at the bottom of the post. It will also tell you if anyone else is currently viewing the blog. I see that you found the smiley's. For everyone else just click the "+" at the bottom and choose a smiley to add to your shout. Have fun trying it out.

More Later, Rich

Added a weather sticker to the blog

I plan to change this sticker when we are in new locations so you can see our weather where we are. Lets see how it works.

Cool Day at Ike Kinswa

Saturday was a very enjoyable day, the temperature never rose out of the 50's. We cooked out, and played cards all day anyway. A fire was enjoyed by all, what a great day with good friends.

Our rig parked in the trees

I have been playing with the blogger to see how to enhance our posts and make it more interesting for folks to follow. Next I think I'll try to add a weather sticker so everyone can see the conditions we are enjoying. That way maybe Jerry won't feel like I'm rubbing it in.

Today we head home, I'm going to continue to post and let you know how our plans and preparations are coming along.

More Later, Rich

Ike Kinswa State Park

Yesterday we traveled from Ocean Shores to Ike Kinswa State Park to hook-up with Deb and Jerry. This is a nice park on Lake Mayfield and set in some old growth forrest. They have already shut down most of the park for the winter but the loop we are in is open all year. They have five really nice cabins they rent that overlook the lake. We are going to hang out and play some cards before heading home tomorrow. We have a really slow internet connection here because we are roaming so they limit us to slower than dialup speeds. So I may not be able to post a picture today.

More Later, Rich

Ocean Shores Mushrooms

We went for a walk this afternoon and found this mushroom, so we wanted to find out what it is, we did a search on google and found that it is a poisonous Fly Agaric. People would put this shroom in a dish to kill flys. What you can find on a walk in the woods.
More later, Rich





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Ocean Shores

We are at Ocean Shores RV Resort for a couple of days just to relax and get some RV time. We love being in our motorhome and are looking forward to the "Big Trip 2008/9". I hope everyone will again follow our adventures this year. I have come to think of ourselves as snowbirds since we will be in the south for the winter.
Our travels start on Nov. 29th. Unlike last year when we drove all the way to Tucson by driving US highways and state roads, this year we are going to jump on the interstate and head south. Our first stay will be in Desert Hot Springs California. This is in the Palm Springs area and will be new to us. After two weeks there we go to Tucson for Christmas with my Dad.
I have added some goodies to the right side of the blog, on it is a map that I will update to add our stops along the way so you can see exactly where we are. This is a live map that you can move around and zoom in on, you'll probably want to click the link to make it larger, so have fun with it.
The other new feature is a shoutbox, where you can make comments and also read what others have to say, or even talk to each other. Just please put your name on top so we know who to respond to. By the way, this is not a public blog so only our friends and family will see what we all have to say.
In the days leading up to our departure I'll keep everyone posted on our preperations and fill you in on where we are going.





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