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As much as we have enjoyed traveling in our View the last year and a half it has not been good for my health. The galley cannot be modified to let me do my own cooking and Dave does not enjoy doing the cooking I need. Plus, I cannot do my exercises in the limited space we have. Now that I have been diagnosed with diabetes, those thing are of increasing importance. So, as many of you have already guessed, we are shopping for a bigger RV.

Yes, that’s why we are thinking of buying a CR-V. A bigger RV wouldn’t let us go the places we go now so we’ll need a runabout.

Yes, that’s also why we spent so much time in Houston. We picked out a Winnebago Vectra that appeared to be designed specifically for the way we live and spent much time negotiating factors relating to it. Unfortunately, the one we couldn’t negotiate was a potential engine recall that would have left us homeless if the incorrectly machined part failed. With a nearly 1 in 20 chance of that happening, I just couldn’t persuade myself to take that risk.

So, next week we are going to California to look at a different RV we think might work for us. Keep your fingers crossed.

TTYL,

Linda

We’ve been at La Posa South LTV near Quartzsite, Arizona for a week and a half. We met members of the View/Navion Owners Group. We reunited with Escapee Class of ’08 members. We made new friends with Escapee Class of ’09 members. We ate at local restaurants with groups of 17-19 people. We experienced a storm that broke a record held for 104 years. We sat around many campfires and told many stories–most of them mostly true. But now it is over for another year and we are the last of our group to move on.  All good things come to an end. I wonder which of our many friends we’ll see next and where we’ll be then?

TTYL,

Linda

I need a January thaw. When we lived in Minnesota and were weary of the short days and lousy weather the January thaw would come along and perk us all up for a few days.

Instead of a January thaw we got the desert storm which pinned us all in our RVs for a few days. I want to go OUT!

So today we are going to Parker, Arizona, to shop at Walmart and to buy propane. Wheee! Maybe we’ll go look at bigger RVs so the next time we get pinned inside we’ll at least have room to invite friends over to play games or something.

TTYL,

Linda

We are experiencing our first winter storm in the Arizona desert. It has multiple facets. The storm Al & Nancy, http://travelswithotto.blogspot.com/, described on Jan 20th was fierce.  The one we are getting here now is just rain but it has been going all night and all day so I would describe it as relentless.

Fierce and relentless–sounds like our attack of Iraq, doesn’t it? Do you suppose whoever named that attack used to live in Arizona?

TTYL,

Linda

We are camped in La Posa South Long Term Visitor Area just south of Quartzsite, Arizona. This is where thousands of RVers gather every January to meet up with friends and, maybe, visit the big tent RV show.

This year the water pump at La Posa South broke just as the mobs arrived. That means no one here can fill the water tanks in our RVs until the new pump arrives and gets installed. This, of course, also happened at the beginning of a three-day holiday weekend so the pump couldn’t be delivered on Monday. Since we arrived on Saturday with a full fresh water holding tank we are still OK but we are using every water conservation method we know in hopes of not having to drive through the mobs into town to get water.

Friends who were already here are finding this more challenging that we are. Jeri & Terry actually drove into town where they rented showers in a semi truck. Now they have a new story to tell and I’m looking forward to hearing the details.

In the meantime, it has begun raining here in the desert! The water is on the wrong side of our RV–the outside! What do we have we can use to catch the rain and bring it inside?

TTYL,

Linda