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1/23/2020

Linda and Hal, Wayne and Leslie...and the dog kids!

10:30 am we left our campsites and did a 40 mile (one way) run down the beach. What a beautiful day with very sweet people. The tide was a bit high ( about 10 minutes too late on our parts) so we sat on the beach for a couple hours and waited until we could get around the point. So warm and pretty. What a sight.

Wayne thought it would be nice if I could take home a big pile of fresh sea salt... didn't know he was packing a hatchet...hmmmm...salt we gathered is drying in the camper. It dried nicely and we will try it. They use it all the time. Also pictures the pink shells we find on the beach. I haven't been able to find them in a book, not sure what kind they are.

Sun is starting to set. Time to head back and watch the sun set.

Gracie. loves the freedom of the beach. Run till you drop kind of day!

Gracie watching the sun set too.

Linda said to Hal, "I do not think this is the beach. I think it is a sandbar." Yep it was, just that quick.

After a snapped winch and a few different types of pulling events we were free again. And yes, that is the moon coming up over the dune.

Next night was dinner... thank you. Carlos, a local man, cooking with Hal.

A dirty side by side has taken on new meaning...washing it down with salt water gives it an interesting effect!
...more beach spoils below...

Back to the states for a few weeks. The new wall next to the old wall. Nicer, better, stronger and less junky.

SHOP ONLINE OR SHOP IN LINE

Trying to keep the utility trailer nice just isn't easy. These two scratches go the entire length of the trailer. While driving through customs our choice was line #5 or #7. If you have a trailer do not use line # 7, that was our choice. The customs officer would not let us get out of our truck to hold the stop sign, out a little...his comment was, we did it to ourselves...what a jerk... the other side of the trailer was so close you would have a difficult time sliding a piece of paper between the pole and the trailer wheel well. When we commented on the fact they need wider lanes he said we do #6...its out of order right now....???? really????

I give up. Bought a sign that says trailer trash. I think it is going on the out side not inside.

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Adventure Trip December 2019-April 2020

1/23/2020

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Leaving Michigan just in time to miss the messy salt and snow on the rig, but what is this coming?

...torrential rain storm thats what.

...all ended well and achieved the best drive by photo yet of the St. Louis arch!

Not over the cold yet. Flagstaff, AZ ahead.

North Acomita Village Sky City Casino just west of Albuquerque, NM. Nice place to stay $21. a night.

Just when we were excited to see the weather warming up and being able to walk around with out freezing, I read this sign on the left. Oh good grief!

Arriving in Yuma December 30 until Jan 3

Yummy avacados here.

A giant thank you again to Gay and Randy with the endless supply of oranges and lemons...we are making liquid gold again...this has got to be the best OJ on earth!!!!
In December for Christmas I use the last of the frozen lemon juice from 2019 winter season, in the cheese Cake...sooooo awsome!

Crossing the US Mexican Border...

Shorty was kind enough to escort us to ElGolfo Santa Clara, Sonora. We didn't take the toll road, so going through the valley we saw many beautiful sites and some very simple living conditions. Broccoli, romaine and cotton were growing. Irrigation canals and beautiful views of the BaJa mountains across the Sea of Cortez, fill our eyes for about 60 miles.

Here we start to view, nature, the art of God.

El Golfo Santa Clara, Colorado River Adventure Resorts

Arrived just in time for cocktails at the banõ 4pm...be there...Sunday Bloody Mary's and 31 cards.

The guys ride the dunes and canyons on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday morning...they said I could come along...thank you! The pictures do not even come close to showing the heights and the depths of the magnificent dunes and canyons.

Pat and Dean are a little crazy, funny...pictured below. Should have had a video for this one. It took a few men to rock them free.

Gracie had to watch where she walked up in the dunes. These thorns were in a few places.

It would probably be correct to assume that this monument will be taken down. The light house I posted last year near this spot was taken down the day we went down the beach all day. Light house standing when we left and light house gone when we came back.

If you hadn't noticed, the large picture above these small pictures, has the monument pictured from below on the beach.

If there is discourse in the world... it is difficult to see here threw the natural beauty that surrounds this area. But, with that thought, maybe we should take a back hoe down here and clean up areas that are victim to litter. It seems as if the Mexican people must break glass on the beach; at which I have found zero sea glass. Someone needs to explain that to me.

Here we are on the tundra (?) looking for agate and pertified wood for the kids aquariums...wow lots of pretty things!

The ride was through the dump (sand dunes) for a long ways...such a shame. Very stinky too because of a lot of fish. Below a picture of todays agates and petrified wood.

Mannie giving us a very good wash and wax on all three of our units. More Mexico in next post.......

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Quartzsite RV Show Begins

1/18/2020

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The show starts with a large gathering, sponsored by the Trek RV Group. Pays to have Trek friends, so we get to go too. Chicken barbecue and music was on the menu.

These two pictures are a good example of how much dust could be generated when a few ATVs decide they do not want to drive a little slower.😩

Above: This sales guy knows how to have fun.
Left: Our solar refrigerator/freezer purchase we have wanted forever...pays to wait until the new models come out so the price tag goes down, a little. 🤨 ...our new flag.

Staying several days after the RV show we toured the sights in the afternoon

Watching the book store must be a very tiring job.😂

Every-so-othen...as you ride you can see pictures people create using quartz stones they find; as in the stones below.

Our new camp site had very interesting scenery. Gold Nugget Road 8 miles east of Quartzsite.

Our only neighboring camper is pictured on the far left below. If you camp on this road you might want to plan to wake up early. There was double trailer 30 wheelers traveling down Gold Nugget Road to the gravel pit at sun rise. And, also, they travel in convoys of 5 at a time.😱

Sun Rise

Boring video of Bob blowing mass quantities of dust off side-by-side after several rides. All is fun and games until you have to tie the ATV down.

Back to Yuma in the morning. It was a good year at Quartzsite, 2020. News starting to talk about the Corona Virus in the US.

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Leaving Mexico stopping in Yuma to regroup and head up to Quirky Quartzzsite, AZ

1/15/2020

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The first day here we had Todd, Bob's nephew, come from Alaska to go exploring with. What a wonderful visit. Finishing with dinner and good friends Gay and Randy joining us. It pays to pack a few extra burgers.

Riding around in the side by side you can run across many ruins of this nature...so cool. I can not imagine a primitive life in this brutal atmosphere.