Goodbye to Catalina and Heading Home

Today we're off to Colton where we get a new piece of weather stripping by the front door. Tonight it's our favourite WalMart here.

We were at Mike Thompson’s RV at 8 am and had the metal wind deflector strip inserted and glued into the door. It had to rest and set overnight so we crawled back to our WalMart spot for the day. We had an app checked on our Verison SmartPhone and went for a lovely lunch at Chili’s. Tuesday morning the workers were moving concrete culverts at 7 am next to us, so they got us up and going.

We went up hwy 215 to 395 and stopped at Kramer’s Junction for brunch. Then it was over Techapapi to Lost hills where we stayed at the back of Pilot’s lot for the night.

Wed. it was up I 5 to Santa Nella for lunch at Pea Soup Andersons. This is where our Protect –a - Tow was stolen off the motorhome and car coming down last Oct. We were relieved the new one was still there when we came out. We enjoyed the signs on the citrus groves announcing the crops like the Mandarins here. O/N at Rolling Hills Casino at Corning.

Thur took us up and over the Siskiyous. Lake Shasta was at the highest level we've seen in 10 years. The drought is over for now. We climbed out of Calif into ORE. After lunch at the Petro in Phoenix we drove through green Ore up and down their mountains to 7 Feathers Casino at Canyonville. We put in $200 Diesel at $4.05/gal, cheapest yet and when I joined their Players Club to get their discount. I got $25.00 in free slot play. You couldn’t cash in the free play but I managed to get gamable up to a $28.04 credit which I could. I am not the luckiest slot player. Friday took us through ORE into WASH. I’m getting braver by the day, I drove through Portland. We’ve had fabulous weather, 72 F all the way of beautiful sunshine. We landed at WalMart in Chehalis and finally got rain showers.

Sat. was a short hop, past the Tacoma Dome ,through Seattle , up to Tulalip Casino. A few showers and sunshine. Tidied up, cut Ron’s hair, I’d got a cut in Chehalis, got the list ready for the border. We’ll stop in Blaine and see Chuck and Barb tomorrow and be back at PBRVP by noon. Home for the summer.

College of the Desert

We met Glen, Leah, Ric and Chayla at the big swap meet at COD. There sure is an amazing amount of stuff that is quite different from home. The girls tried on hairpieces that stood straight up. No idea who'd wear those!!! We did find a shady spot to rest while we waited for the others and then had lunch at the Olive Garden.
We finished our day with happy hour at Willy and Jo's and said goodbye to our friends.

Good Old VFW

We've played pegs and jokers with Mike and Linda and went to the VFW with the gang for our last tacos and beer.
We went to Taco Night at the park Thur with M, L Joy and Roman, then more pegs and jokers.
We had a great visit at Jo and Willy's Sat.and now we head north Sunday morning. We'll cross the border Apr 3 ( Chris' birthday) and be home at our usual PBRVPark.
Sure have had a great winter and will be sorry to leave the swimming pools, desert walks and sunshine.

Soup Tuesday

Back in Catalina for 9 days. 3 of us went over to see Joanie and Chuck for their bi-weekly soup and fresh bread lunch. They had 4 soups, turkey, split pea, corn chowder and cream of broccoli, all very good. We had lots of fun and saw Joni's new gold cart.

Had fun in Hemet

We've had a great time here with R and Ch and G and L. Wed. happy hour at our place, Thur, a
$ 4.50 movie - Just Go with It, so-so, Friday out to the Western Saloon to see M, play pool and hear Karaoke, Sat turkey on the Ronco and laying around the pool and playing backgammon. Sunday was the Winchester Bar for dancing and dinner yesterday was Jambalaya here and shuffleboard. Lots of fun.

Golden Village RV Park

Today is the 3rd birthday of our 2008 Phaeton Coach - imagine, we've been living in it 3 years and still as happy as ever. We're having a great time in this Park. It is an older mobile home park with wonderful facilities. There is a sand volleyball court, 2 water volleyball pools and a big main one, plus 2 hot tubs. There is a great library, card room and 10 pool tables. There are many activities, dances and all. I enjoyed a cheeseburger at the pool one day listening to the singer at the cabana.

Off to Hemet

Well we've really enjoyed the past 12 days and off to Hemet tomorrow. We gather at the lower pool and bob around chatting about everything under the sun, most people sitting on their noodles - I'm a purist -paddling for exercise. You learn many new things, mostly about where to go for great food. Yesterday when it hit 80 degrees, there must have been 75 people in this pool.
We had 2 days of fierce wind blowing and this cracked me up this morning when Ida and I were walking - were they holding the fence down by tying it to the bumper of the truck?????
Next thing was the cat with it's pet door through the wall of the motorhome to it's little outside space. What next?

Garage Sale Hunting

We've developed a pattern - I go over to Don and Lila's and I drive their golf cart and Lila and I cruise all around Desert Crest, their Park to the fall and spring garage sales. Well, we did ourselves proud. We scored many things, pots and pans for someone who needs them, things to sew for the granddaughters of dolls and pets. Good practice for learning how to use the sewing machine. We had a lovely sunny day and lots of fun.

Back to Sunshine

We're really enjoying being back with this crowd again. Happy hours, a swim at night under the stars, I modeled in the RV Casuals show Monday, always fun with the girls, lovely clothes, Chinese Auction, bocci. pool and plenty to enjoy. We enjoyed Hamburger night before 3 couples left Mon. and Tue.

Maureen and I went to Menopause, the Musical and loved it. Very funny and great music.