DECEMBER 17, 2007

HUNG AROUND CAMP TODAY AND TRIED OUT THE NEW SOLAR PANELS. STILL DOESN’T SEEM TO BE CHARGING THE BATTERIES. HAVE TO GET A BATTERY CHARGER WHEN I GET TO YUMA, I GUESS.

DECEMBER 18, 2007

ANDY AND I WENT WITH THE WIN’S TO HAVE PIZZA AT SILLY AL’S. THERE WERE ABOUT 30 OF US AND IT TOOK FOREVER TO GET OUR DINNER. THEN WE ALL WENT INTO THE BAR AND DANCED TO THE KAROKE. WE ALL GOT UP AND SANG “WE ARE FAMILY” SISTERS SLEDGE. IT WAS FUNNY. I SNAPPED SOMETHING IN MY LEFT KNEE WHEN ANDY AND I WERE DANCING TO A FAST ONE. DAMN, SAME THING I DID TO IT A MONTH AGO.

DECEMBER 19,2007

STILL HOBBLING AROUND ON MY SORE LEG. ANDY AND I DECIDED TO PACK UP, DUMP AND GET WATER IN TOWN AND CARAVAN TOGETHER TO YUMA TODAY. NOTHING MUCH TO DO HERE ANYWAY. IT WAS A SHORT TRIP. TRUCK SEEMED TO BE RUNNING OK EXCEPT I NOTICED A LOUD INTERMITTENT WHISTLE OCCASIONALLY. MAYBE THE TURBO. JUST TURNED THE RADIO UP AND IGNORED IT. GOT TO YUMA JUST BEFORE 1 PM AND A LOT OF THE WIN’S WERE ALREADY THERE. JUST A SANDY PARKING LOT BEHIND THE VFW AND RIGHT ON THE INTERSTATE 95 NEXT TO THE RAILROAD TRACKS. IT’S GOING TO BE A NOISY TWO WEEKS. OH WELL, AT LEAST THE WEATHER IS NICE HERE. IT WAS IN THE 70’S WHEN WE ARRIVED.

DECEMBER 20-JANUARY 4, 2008

OMG, DANCING EVERYDAY AT VFW AND THEN IN TOWN AGAIN AT NIGHT AT MICKEY B’S, COUNTRY ROADS RV PARK, MOOSE LODGE AND FORTUNA DE ORO RV PARK. THESE PEOPLE ARE DANCING FOOLS. HAVING A LOT OF FUN, BUT CAN’T KEEP UP THE PACE EVERY DAY. O.J. CAME DOWN ON 21ST AND I SIGNED HIM UP FOR DANCING LESSONS. HE WAS A LITTLE HESITANT AND SHY AT FIRST, BUT IS REALLY CATCHING ON TO THE DANCING. HOPE I’M NOT CORRUPTING HIM. DON’T THINK SO, ONCE A NICE GUY ALWAYS A NICE GUY. HAD DINNER ON HIS BIRTHDAY 29TH AT RED LOBSTER. WAS GREAT. STUFFED OURSELVES. CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS PARTIES AT THE VFW WITH MORE FOOD. GOT TO START WATCHING IT, I’M PACKING ON THE POUNDS. O. J. LEFT FOR IDAHO ON THE 3RD OF JANUARY AND GOT BACK THE 4TH TO SNOWY GOODING.

ON TO MARTINEZ LAKE NEAR YUMA PROVING GROUNDS ON THE 4TH WHERE I FINALLY GOT TO DUMP AND GET WATER. NOT MUCH HERE AND ONLY A FEW PEOPLE SHOWED UP, BUT I WELCOMED THE QUIET AND ABLE TO GET SOMETHING DONE SUCH AS LAUNDRY AND CLEANING FINALLY. STILL HAVEN’T FOUND THE TRAILER I WANT AT THE PRICE I CAN AFFORD. HOPEFULLY BETTER LUCK AT QUARTZSITE. FINALLY TRACKED MAIL DOWN. IT’S STILL SITTING IN LAKE HAVASU SO FAXED THEM ANOTHER FORWARD THIS TIME TO QUARTZSITE. GOOD LUCK.

WENT DANCING AT THE LAKE MARTINEZ CANTINA. SOME COLORFUL AND EXPENSIVE HOMES AROUND THE LAKE AND SOME REALLY DUMPY ONES, TOO. NOT MUCH HERE.
WIN’S THAT SHOWED UP WERE CHUCK, HOST AND GIL, JIM, JOY, BOB LARSON, BOB DWYER, BOB FROM PIONEER CALIF., JUDY, JOE, BONNIE SAM FROM CAMBRIDGE, IDAHO………………