A Walk in the Desert, Flowering Cacti, and a Geocache

We are at Desert Pools RV in Desert Hot Springs with Debbie and Jerry. We were supposed to be in Indio at Indian Waters, where we had reservations for three months.  There was a terrible accident on I-10 coming from Ehrenberg and we arrived about an hour later that planned and all of the full hookup sites were taken, and they wanted to put us in a gravel site with no sewer and that was not an option for the laundry lady. So we called the reservation desk and they changed our park to Desert Pools. We spent three weeks here in December and like it here, so here we are.

Yesterday we went for a walk in the desert to see the blooming cacti.

 

Blooms on the Beavertail Cactus

I purchased a handheld GPS so I could continue my new hobby of geocacheing. It works very well and I drug everyone along on my search and I found it.

The Geocache is found.

Flowers on the Buckhorn Cholla

Barrel Cactus

Today is Jerry’s 61st birthday so we are going to Sunday Brunch at the Fantasy Springs Casino, it promises to be another wonderful day.

Happy Birthday Jerry!!

More Later,

Rich

Living the Good Life Part Two

The last two weeks with Bill and Donna have been wonderful.

Bill

Donna

Tigger

These photos were taken at Hidden Beaches RV park just north of Blythe on the California side of the river. A nice place with spaces right on the Colorado River but at $44.00 a night I doubt they will see our rig there. We bought a couple of beers and enjoyed the shade and view for a while.

I told you about Bill and I doing some geocaching, well we were finally stumped.

The one that got away.

Right where the “?” is, is the lost treasure. The GPS said we were in the right place, the clue said it was buried in the loose sand but we could not find it .

Bill and Donna pull out today, and we travel to Indian Waters in Indio to meet up with Debbie and Jerry in the morning. So today after we say our goodbyes it will be time to pack our stuff and get ready to go.

It’s sad when you say goodbye to friends while Living the Good Life on the Banks of the Colorado River.

More Later,

Rich

Living the Good Life on the Banks of the Colorado River

We have been having such a good time here at the Colorado River Oasis in Ehrenberg, AZ, that I have been too lazy to post about it. Sorry!

This is a favorite place for us and our friends Bill and Donna from Colorado arrived at the same time we did and it has been busy, busy ever since.

On their way to meet us they stopped and bought a new 2011 Damon Astoria, a very nice motorhome.

Bill and Donna in front of their new rig.

The ladies have been going to a “Walk away the pounds” exercise class and Bill and I have been going for walks in the desert.

Recently we decided to try some geocaching, this is where you look up the location of a treasure “cache” on the net then input the location into your gps then try to find it.

Bill and our first find.

This has proven to be a lot of fun and some good exercise as well as a challenge.

We all took a drive to the Blythe Intaglios, (intaglios are prehistoric carvings in the earth). Along the way we found another cache. It was hidden in the Monument for the site.

The Intaglio cache.

Monument

Click on the picture to read about the intaglios.

They are so large that the best way to see them is from a plane (we didn’t have one handy). But it was interesting to see, they may be 10,000 years old by the way.

This one is either a lion of a horse, who knows.

It’s time to head out on another of those adventures.

More Later,

Rich

Travel Mode

A visit to the White Sands National Monument was a real treat. This place is a wonderful place to see.

This is not snow, but gypsum sand.

We bought a sled at the gift shop and took it out to the dunes.

The trek to the top and the slide down was fun.

We had a great day playing like kids.

Then it was back to Arizona.

We have been traveling and visiting this last week. We stopped in St. David, AZ at the WHR resort there for two nights. We met up with Gloria’s cousin Terry and his better half Mary. Oh and their three little doggies too.  They live in Bend, OR, we live in Brush Prairie, WA and we have to meet up for lunch in Tucson.  A very nice lunch and visit was had.

From St David we went to Tucson and parked on the street in front of my Dad’s house for our second visit with him and Marge. We played dice and had a couple of great meals out with them.

Marge is growing some nice Orchids.

Dad is looking well.

We are now traveling across Arizona and will be on the Colorado River in Ehrenberg tonight, for two weeks with our friends Bill and Donna.

More Later,

Rich