Here is a bird's eye view of the 'Rainbow Acres' community where we are staying.
Jim says he would like to fly an ultralight around here ... I think I'd just as soon keep my feet on the ground.
Forgive me, I just can't resist another photo of these cool Saguaros.
We spent some time washing rigs. Boy did we have a lot of bugs on the cabover windows! Then we took their 'quads' and did a little 4-wheelin' in the desert.
After you get a ways into the desert, you gotta stop the machines and enjoy the quiet.
Y'know why it's called Quartzsite? Cuz there's a lot of quartz around here. John showed us a beautiful clear crystal he found in the desert here once and said we would do some crystal hunting this afternoon. Jim decided to spoof him and grabbed my special crystal off the shelf before we left - then he pretended to find it in the desert. Had 'em goin' for a minute!
Last night we had movie night. We all gathered around the fire in the middle of the front yard. Jim set up the computer and projector and he used the new porch screen wall that Lynne made us as a screen - using rear projection. It worked great. First he showed a couple of our slide shows from the computer, then he put in the DVD for Shrek II. You probably have to take my word for it, cuz it's hard to see in this picture.
What a quiet, beautiful desert view.
Both Lynne and John and Dick and Frankie are away right now. We look forward to welcoming them 'home' tomorrow.
From our little tour at the visitors center, we learned that it takes about 100 years for the Saguaro to grow this tall:
Now we are in Palm Creek Golf and RV Resort. This is a Coach Connect park with thousands of sites. We plan to spend all of January here, and maybe more. It happened to be right on our way to Quartzsite, where we plan to spend Christmas. So we figured we'd stop and introduce ourselves and try to put together a schedule of our seminars for January. If you'd like to winter in Southern Arizona and you like golf - this is definitely your place! I don't know much about golf courses - but this one sure is pretty.
Yesterday's drive was a lot easier! Nice smooth paved road. The hum of the tires is hypnotic and the grand scenery scrolling by tends to take your mind to other worlds. Don't these mountains in the distance look like a painted scenery scroll? Since I wasn't driving I could actually use the time as a type of meditation.
We also had to stop at a winery! St. Clair Winery. You may have noticed that we like to stop at wineries! This one had something we've never seen before. Bulk wine. You could bring your own bottle or buy one of their half-gallon jugs and they will fill it up from a tap! Cool. To fill up our 750ml bottle cost $2.50. To buy their jug cost $2 and filling it up cost $6.30. And you could choose dry white, sweet white, dry red or sweet red. You could even ask that they blend 2 parts dry red with 1 part sweet red. Wine by numbers. How civilized. I also bought my first tShirt of this journey. I just couldn't resist.
After 250 miles and a little over 4 hours on the road, we pulled into a campground that we found in our Passport America book. They're usually 1/2 price, but apparently this is high season here in Southern Arizona so we had to pay the full price of $20. And, there's no Wi-Fi so we raised our trusty Datastorm dish so we could do all our Internet stuff like posting to this blog.
Sometime I'll get out the tripod to take a photo at night. There's a cool blue light on the dish that serves perfectly to guide us home when we take Odie for a walk at night!
