I know that it's been a long time since I put ...fingers to my computer (as opposed to pen to paper), and I've meant to put my thoughts and our travels on the computer, but I just never quite got to it. I'll try to fix that now.
We left Desert Hot Springs and went to Lake Havasu Colorado River Adventures (CRA) on February 1 to stay there for 14 days.
This is where we originally bought into membership camping a few years ago. We've used our CRA membership resorts, along with membership resorts in the Thousand Trails system, in our travels with us paying a yearly fee and then camping in those resorts for free. I like free. The Lake Havasu resort had a pool and a hot tub that we used just about everyday. We spent several days playing Pickleball in the city of Lake Havasu after finding out where it was played. The folks there really enjoy their Pickleball, and you may enjoy this link to a youtube.com video telling about the beginning of Pickleball if you don't know it.
Half way through our time in Lake Havasu, Katie's sister, Karen, and her husband, Bill, came from Lakewood, Ca., to join us for a couple of days. It was good seeing them, as it is always. In the picture below, Katie's on the left, Bill is in the center, and Karen is on the right. Just so you know, Bill is able to stand up straight, he doesn't always lean to his left, ok?
We left Desert Hot Springs and went to Lake Havasu Colorado River Adventures (CRA) on February 1 to stay there for 14 days.
This is where we originally bought into membership camping a few years ago. We've used our CRA membership resorts, along with membership resorts in the Thousand Trails system, in our travels with us paying a yearly fee and then camping in those resorts for free. I like free. The Lake Havasu resort had a pool and a hot tub that we used just about everyday. We spent several days playing Pickleball in the city of Lake Havasu after finding out where it was played. The folks there really enjoy their Pickleball, and you may enjoy this link to a youtube.com video telling about the beginning of Pickleball if you don't know it.
Half way through our time in Lake Havasu, Katie's sister, Karen, and her husband, Bill, came from Lakewood, Ca., to join us for a couple of days. It was good seeing them, as it is always. In the picture below, Katie's on the left, Bill is in the center, and Karen is on the right. Just so you know, Bill is able to stand up straight, he doesn't always lean to his left, ok?
We went down to London Bridge to check out the sights and sounds of the village there. Part of the sounds was this cornet player under the bridge where there was excellent acoustics. The trumpeter played older songs, and did it quite well.
Another sound to hear was the owner of a hat shop who bringing in just about anyone who could hear his voice to sell them ...what else, hats! Because I was looking for a hat that I could shade my eyes with and kinda mold it to whatever else needed to be covered for whatever reason, I got one. Here's a picture of Katie and I with me wearing my new hat. Ain't I dashing? Ok, use your imagination, ok? Oh yeah, that's the London Bridge behind us, that was bought and brought over here by Robert McCulloch as in McCulloch chain saws, in 1971, you can read about it here.
We went back to the moho and spent a couple of hours visiting with Bill and Karen having a good time. It was sad to see them go home the next day, but we were very grateful that we were able to see them as we don't see them as often as we used to.
On February 15th, we went to Las Vegas Thousand Trails for two weeks. Now, Lake Havasu CRA and LV Thousand Trails were similar in that they both were gravel with a little grass in designated spaces. But LV 1K trails is smaller so the space for each rv is smaller. With no disrespect, I'd say that it's like a gravel parking lot with rv hookups, which isn't unique among a lot of rv resorts. Lake Havasu was larger, and the rv spots had a little more segregation in that they weren't all on the same level, with a little more room. Las Vegas 1K Trails also has more noise as the planes from McCarran Airport would take off each night passing over that area of town, and the noise from emergency vehicles going up and down Boulder Hwy was enough to keep me from sleeping as soundly if we hadn't been there. We rarely heard sounds like airliners or emergency vehicles in Lake Havasu.
The first week, we spent time seeing friends and just kinda taking it easy. The second week was a week long learning time for Katie at the yearly Creative Painting convention held at the Tropicana Hotel. She took a lot of classes in the various aspects of painting or drawing, as well as being excited about what she really loves to do. It was a hard week for her as a couple of the days she had classes were from 8 AM until 9 or 10 PM, kinda for me also as I missed her. But I was able to spend time singing with the choir of Grace Presbyterian Church for their rehearsal, as well as taking part in worship on Sunday morning. It felt so good to sing again, I'm very thankful for that talent. Overall, we had a good time in Las Vegas, and it was good to see and do all the things we did there. The moho is even more full of her paintings as she painted another painting in each class she took. I do wish that we could've seen friends that we'd been looking forward to seeing, but weren't able to as things just didn't work out. But that gives us a good reason to come back.
Thinking about all the wet paintings that Katie's brought home, it got me to thinking how artists carry and protect their wet paintings. So I came up with an idea for a carrier for wet canvases that I think that other artists could use. It didn't quite come out as well as I'd hoped, but it's merely a rough draft right now. Hopefully, down the road, all the rough edges will be smoothed out, and it'll look a whole bunch better than it does right now. Stay tuned for the exciting showing!
We left for Ridgeview RV Resort after Katie's last class on Sunday, the 1st of March. It was supposed to be after 5 PM, but it worked out that it was closer to 7 PM, which meant traveling in the dark. I don't mind driving in the dark, but if we're moving from one resort to the next resort, I prefer to do it when it's light out rather than dark. Something about being able to see as much as possible while moving our home, ya know? Having called the resort earlier in the day, I knew what site was going to be ours by the time we got there, but it was late and dark, and the rain wasn't making it fun to set up. So we found our spot, pulled in, hooked up electricity, extended the slides, moved stuff off the bed so we could sleep, and went to bed. Leveling, hooking up water and sewer, and connecting the Dish Tailgater were put off until the next day.
When I did get up the next day, there was a drizzle coming down softly enough that we couldn't hear it hit the roof inside the moho, but when I stepped outside to walk the doggies I knew very well what was going on. It's rained off and on all day for the most part. Even had a good thunder storm. Around 4 PM, it cleared off some and the ground semi dried out. Here is what it looks like here. The mountains in the background in the top photo are in Nevada.
We went back to the moho and spent a couple of hours visiting with Bill and Karen having a good time. It was sad to see them go home the next day, but we were very grateful that we were able to see them as we don't see them as often as we used to.
On February 15th, we went to Las Vegas Thousand Trails for two weeks. Now, Lake Havasu CRA and LV Thousand Trails were similar in that they both were gravel with a little grass in designated spaces. But LV 1K trails is smaller so the space for each rv is smaller. With no disrespect, I'd say that it's like a gravel parking lot with rv hookups, which isn't unique among a lot of rv resorts. Lake Havasu was larger, and the rv spots had a little more segregation in that they weren't all on the same level, with a little more room. Las Vegas 1K Trails also has more noise as the planes from McCarran Airport would take off each night passing over that area of town, and the noise from emergency vehicles going up and down Boulder Hwy was enough to keep me from sleeping as soundly if we hadn't been there. We rarely heard sounds like airliners or emergency vehicles in Lake Havasu.
The first week, we spent time seeing friends and just kinda taking it easy. The second week was a week long learning time for Katie at the yearly Creative Painting convention held at the Tropicana Hotel. She took a lot of classes in the various aspects of painting or drawing, as well as being excited about what she really loves to do. It was a hard week for her as a couple of the days she had classes were from 8 AM until 9 or 10 PM, kinda for me also as I missed her. But I was able to spend time singing with the choir of Grace Presbyterian Church for their rehearsal, as well as taking part in worship on Sunday morning. It felt so good to sing again, I'm very thankful for that talent. Overall, we had a good time in Las Vegas, and it was good to see and do all the things we did there. The moho is even more full of her paintings as she painted another painting in each class she took. I do wish that we could've seen friends that we'd been looking forward to seeing, but weren't able to as things just didn't work out. But that gives us a good reason to come back.
Thinking about all the wet paintings that Katie's brought home, it got me to thinking how artists carry and protect their wet paintings. So I came up with an idea for a carrier for wet canvases that I think that other artists could use. It didn't quite come out as well as I'd hoped, but it's merely a rough draft right now. Hopefully, down the road, all the rough edges will be smoothed out, and it'll look a whole bunch better than it does right now. Stay tuned for the exciting showing!
We left for Ridgeview RV Resort after Katie's last class on Sunday, the 1st of March. It was supposed to be after 5 PM, but it worked out that it was closer to 7 PM, which meant traveling in the dark. I don't mind driving in the dark, but if we're moving from one resort to the next resort, I prefer to do it when it's light out rather than dark. Something about being able to see as much as possible while moving our home, ya know? Having called the resort earlier in the day, I knew what site was going to be ours by the time we got there, but it was late and dark, and the rain wasn't making it fun to set up. So we found our spot, pulled in, hooked up electricity, extended the slides, moved stuff off the bed so we could sleep, and went to bed. Leveling, hooking up water and sewer, and connecting the Dish Tailgater were put off until the next day.
When I did get up the next day, there was a drizzle coming down softly enough that we couldn't hear it hit the roof inside the moho, but when I stepped outside to walk the doggies I knew very well what was going on. It's rained off and on all day for the most part. Even had a good thunder storm. Around 4 PM, it cleared off some and the ground semi dried out. Here is what it looks like here. The mountains in the background in the top photo are in Nevada.
We're gonna be here for another day and a half, and then head to Phoenix for another three days, before we go to the Escapee Escapade in Tucson. Lookin' forward to that.
Be blessed and good.
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