Out of the Desert

Wednesday  afternoon we decided that after dumping our waste water tanks, and filling the fresh water tank, that we would move into town for a couple of days.  As long as we had to pull the slides in and raise the jacks, we thought lets just move into town, but before we did Ann decided that she would like to take this opportunity to drive the motorhome.  Since this is a huge area with little or no traffic it is the perfect place to learn how to drive the motorhome.  She started pretty slow, but it didnt take long for her to get the feel of how this almost forty foot peice of machinery handled.  She made several turns, some straight line runs, and even backed the monster into our spot.  Pretty impressive for the first attempt at driving something this big.

When we were staying at the Holiday Palms RV Park in Quartzsite, before we went to the desert, we had found a place that charged $5 a night or dry camping right behind a BBQ place which is next door to Silly Als, a pizza place that has Karaoke on Wednesday nights.  So we decided this would be a good place to camp, go have some good food, a few drinks, and Ann can sing Karaoke, and we dont have to worry about driving after having an adult beverage or two. It is not much of a park, but it served it's purpose.

After Ann finished working today, we went for a short walk around the campground, then decided to go for a drive in the car to take a look at a free campground north of town.  It is about five miles out there, and a state road runs through it that goes on up to Bouse, Arizona.  Going through the campground didnt take long, so we dedided to go on a little farther, a decision that was reinforced when we noticed that the car only had a range of 51 miles left of this take of gas, and Bouse was about 25 miles away, and we werent sure it had a gas station.  We went a couple more miles then pulled over, climbed up a rock and took some pics of the area.  Nothing great, just pretty neat for a winters day in Arizona!

 

  

 

 

 

Then it was back to the rig where Ann is now preparing a dinner of garlic roasted chicken breast, rice pilaf, and lima beans, while I am having a MGD, and writing this blog.  Life is good so far.

Paul