Three Days on the Road

We have been on the road now for three days.  Tonight finds us in Delhi, CA at the Merced River RV Park.  This is an older but well kept park, not far off the CA-99 freeway, but the noise is tolerable. 

The drives each day have been uneventful for the most part.  We have not had any rain along the way.  The first night was spent at the Seven Feathers Casino RV Park.  This is a beautiful resort with everything you could want.  Saturdays drive through the Siskiyou’s was a little bit white knuckle.  We had planned to get on the road so we would cross the pass at about noon after it had warmed up.  When we were almost at the pass there was a pickup towing a fifth wheel that had jackknifed on some ice, we were sure sorry for them and glad we had waited.  Descending down the California side is always exciting, but we made it fine.  The night was spent boondocking at the Win-River Casino.  It was a quiet and comfortable night. Today's drive was long but easy, lots of traffic but tolerable.

Tomorrow we will get to Bakersfield for the night and then on to Indian Waters RV Resort in Indio, CA for two weeks.

More Later, Rich

The Countdown Begins

Just one week from today we are due to arrive at Indian Waters RV Resort in Indio, CA. 

But first we have Thanksgiving, I have been preparing as much ahead as I can, today was garlic mashed Yukon gold potatoes.  All that’s left is the turkey, stuffing, and gravy.

Everyone else is bringing all the other dishes and desserts.  It is going to be a great meal with everyone.

We are pretty much ready to take off, what’s left won’t take long.  I have put the weather sticky up for the Palm Springs area so you all can see what we are in for in the way of weather (pretty hard to take huh?).  I have made a reservation for Saturday night at the Seven Feathers Casino RV Park, and the weather over the pass while cold, looks like we can make it without any problems.  The next post will likely be from the road.

More Later, Rich

The Preparations Continue

Gorgie continues to run around like a chicken with it’s head cut off.  Me I’m my usual calm and collected self, NOT-we are both doing that running thing. We are worried that we will forget something both around the house and in the motor home. We will be having the usual crowd of about 20 over for dinner on Thanksgiving, so there is shopping and cooking for that and we still need to finish shopping to provision the RV. We know everything will come together but if we don’t pay attention something will surely fall through the cracks. 

We really look forward to having everyone over for the holiday, we will miss everyone while we are gone but, through the miracle of the internet and this blog we will be able to keep in touch. Now we also have a “TEXTER” on this trip, maybe Gorgie will start to tweet with her new Blackberry, then everyone will hear more from us than when we are home.

I hope you enjoy our blog, we will try to keep it interesting for you.

More Later, Rich

Snowbirds III

Every adventure should have a name, so I named this trip “Snowbirds III” since this is our third trip south for the winter.

So far we have made plans and some reservations to be at the following places this winter.

We will be at:

Indian Waters RV Resort in Indio, CA from 12-2 to 12-16,

Desert Pools RV Resort in Desert Hot Springs from 12-16 to 12-30,

South Forty RV Resort in Tucson, AZ from 12-31 to 1-6,

St. David RV Resort in St. David, AZ from 1-6 to 1-20,

Valley Vista RV Resort in Benson, AZ from 1-20 to 1-30,

Colorado River Oasis in Ehrenberg, AZ from 2-1 to 2-15.

These are all the reservations and plans that we have made so far but other stops will include Pilot Knob RV Resort in Winterhaven, CA (Yuma),

Desert Vista in Salome,AZ, and then back to the Palm Springs area either to Desert Pools or Indian Waters.

Of course there will be stops along the way to break up the distances between destinations because we don’t want to drive more than 200-250 miles on any day if we can help it, we’ll report on those as we travel along on our Snowbirds III adventure.

More Later, Rich