New Years Eve 2011

     Here we are at the end of another year. We are so lucky to have had such a great year, and we are sure next year will be just as wonderful. We wish all of you a Very Happy and Safe New Year.

     This past week we have had a great time enjoying the weather down here in Yuma, sunny, and warm with daytime temps in the mid 70’s, right now it’s 76 and we are sitting outside reading.

Earlier this week we went to Los Algadones, Mexico for lunch, margarita’s, some shopping, and a Mexican haircut.

 I had some perfect shrimp in garlic sauce dish.

 It was gone quickly, and there were 10 of those large Camarones too.

Yummmmm!!

Gorgie had the fish taco’s and they were yummy too.  Sorry no picture.

Perfect margarita’s

Then it was time for my Mexican haircut. Don’t I look better?

We went to the casino and Gorgie was washing her hands in the restroom when someone behind here said “don’t you think they should put more than one towel dispenser in these places?”, to which she said “they sure should”. She turned around to find, to both of their surprise,  Starla, it is a small world and you never know who you will see in a restroom, so always wash your hands.

 

The sunsets here are hard to beat as well, last night there were a few high clouds to add to our view.

The Ocotillo really stand out.

We don’t have any plans to welcome in the New Year except to watch the back of our eyelids, so if you have plans enjoy and have a

Happy New Year,

Gorgie & Rich

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

Everyone

This year we are in the Yuma, AZ area for Christmas. Officially we are in Winterhaven, CA, but there is nothing here but a gas station, Yuma is only a couple of miles east.

We are doing well and find it surprising that we have been on the road for almost a month now. In the park they are going to roast the turkeys in a pit, they have had a fire going all day and tonight they will wrap the turkeys (4), hams (2), and a beef roast (1). They get buried in the pit and they roast overnight, yummmm. Oh and by the way it’s supposed to be around 70° here.

We are in the Christmas spirit here with our Charlie Brown Tree.

We just had to decorate the motorhome and we chose a red theme We think you will like it as much as we do.

Finally Nick and Nora are enjoying the holiday season as well.

 

Merry Christmas everyone we miss you all and hope you have as wonderful a Christmas as we are,

Gorgie and Rich

Plans Do Change

We have been in St. David, AZ for a while trying to decide what to do. Do we continue on to the Rio Grande Valley as originally planned or do we stay in the Arizona/Southern California area.  While we really wanted to see our friends who are wintering in the RGV we decided to stay in the west this year, Sorry Pam, Harold, and all our other Winter Texan friends.

We really like this area a lot and enjoy the scenery, this park is not very busy and when Gorgie went down to participate in the aerobic exercise class she was the only one to show up,so she had to come up with an alternate plan. Well the mornings have been frosty around here, 60’s in the afternoons though.

 

 

 

 

 

Dressed for walking.

 

 

 

We also had a couple of rainy days that were well suited for reading and card playing.

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Notice the little rivers of water.

 

 

 

Somewhere I picked up a cold, not bad just some sniffles and a cough didn’t last long. I almost never get sick and all our cold remedy's were out dated, but I used them anyway.

A trip to Tombstone was taken for lunch one day and it was fun to go to that tourist trap.

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                     

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  They were having a special on final arrangements while we were there.

 

 

 

 

 

We leave here for the Yuma area on Tuesday and are going to make an overnight stop in Casa Grande to see Gary and Yvonne.

Life is good!!

More Later,

Rich

St. David Arizona

We had a great visit with my Dad and Marge in Tucson. They are doing well and are always good company. We went to the “Hifalutin Restaurant’ “  for dinner one night, and to a new place called “My Big Fat Greek Restaurant”, where Dad and I had some of the best lamb chops I have ever had in a restaurant. It was a short but great visit.

We are now in St. David, AZ at a Favorite Western Horizons Resort, called “St. David RV Resort” of course. There are not many rigs here right now and it is very quiet, we are enjoying watching the birds. It has been pleasant here and sitting outside reading in the warm sun is sure nice, although it rained yesterday but that will pass quickly.  Somewhere I have picked up a cold and I’m trying to shrug that off but it too will pass.

We were advised by Heather to get a Christmas tree, we went to town and found a “Charlie Brown” tree at the Ace Hardware and set it up on our steering wheel table.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are quite fond of it, and  find ourselves getting in the spirit of the holiday.

We are staying here until the 20th and then we travel to Yuma with an overnight in Casa Grande.

If you have to fight a cold, the Arizona sun is as good as it gets.

More Later,

Rich

On the Move.

This morning we are in Tonopah, AZ.  We stopped here at the Saddle Mt. RV park for the night.  This morning the temperature is 25° a very cold 25°. 

We had a great time at Desert Pools and the Palm Springs area, even if our stay was short.  Let me tell you about the Indio Tamale Festival.  The first time we went three years ago we were told that the best tamale’s were from “Grandma Lupe’s Authentic Tamale’s”, and the best were the strawberry ones.  Since we had already eaten some very good tamale’s we tried the recommended strawberry and was it good. Last year we missed the first day and after standing in line for over an hour learned they had sold out, bummer.  This year we were determined to score these coveted corn husk stuffed delights.  Well we stood in line for three hours and forty-five minuets, and we bought not only some to eat right away but also some frozen to take home.  After spending that much time in line we were questioning our sanity, we did meet some very nice people some of whom drove all the way from LA to stand in this line with us.  Last night we had some of those tamale’s and they were even better the ones from the stand, color us crazy but we will probably do it again.

Today we are going to my Dad’s for a couple of days then it’s back on the road.

More Later,

Rich

WINDY!!!!!!

We did it we beat the winds.  We have never traveled this far this fast, but we didn’t want to get stuck somewhere for several days.  So a mad dash was made for Desert Hot Springs, and we made it.  Just in time too. The winds were already picking up as we set up our rig.  The winds were 40 – 45 MPH with gusts to 65 all night long we even had to bring in our slide so the awning wouldn’t get damaged. There wasn’t the damage here like in the LA area.  We like it here so the extra two days will be enjoyable.  This evening we are going to Shanghai Reds for lobster bisque, and tomorrow is the Indio Tamale Festival . 

Gorgie is off to her aerobic exercise class and I am waiting for the RV washing crew to give our motorhome a much needed bath.

Morning views.

New snow in the hills from yesterdays storms.

I am already forgetting what day it is so that is a sure sign I’m in the travel mode.

More Later,

Rich