Eating out with friends is the number one thing to do.
Visiting Red Rock Canyon just about 30 miles from Las Vegas.
Visiting the new bridge built over Hoover Dam by-passing the dam.
Driving around Lake Mead. 
And seeing an occasional coyote.
From Palm Springs we traveled across th Mojave Desert up to Las Vegas. Driving through Joshua Tree National Park is always interesting. The trees are weird looking the first time you see them. They are named after Joshua in the bible because the first explorers thought they looked like a man with his arms reaching upward.
We spent one night in Primm, Nv just across the state line. Of course, casinos was all you could find so we stayed in the parking lot of Whiskey Pete’s.
We will be in Las Vegas until March 22.
Jerry wanted to go to the golf tournament so on Friday we went over to check it out. There was several stars that played in it so we sent the other Jerri out to search for them.
With her trusty cameras in hand and around her neck she finally found some of the more popular folks.
Pat Boone was one of them. He stopped for some photos and to sign some of the programs. He was so nice and talked with us a little. He told me he was 76 yrs young and felt great. It was a fun day.
We have been in Palm Springs for 9 days. The weather is just wonderful with lots of sunshine and warm temps. It’s a little cooler today high 60’s (that’s cold here) and we even had rain last night.
We have been shopping with Jerri and Terry.
The Flame Brazillian Resturant
We have been to the Casino with uncle Floyd and Mary
The casino won! rats!!!!!
We have been to the National Date Festival.
And the valley of windmills. That’s all for now.
2-6-2011
The Lavins were staying at the same park we were in, so we joined them for Karaoke night at the pool bar. We had heard that Ed like to sing and boy does he and very well. Linda also sings and did a duo with Ed. We had a good time listening to all the singers, good and bad.
Next we are moving on to Palm Springs for a couple of weeks.
2-3-2011
Before we left the Lake Havasu area we went over to Oatmen, Az. Oatmen is a little western town turned tourist attraction. It was a mining town back in the day but, today it is best known for the burros that wander around town looking for hand-outs.
Some of the burros do their shopping at the shops in town.
downtown Oatman
From Quartzite, we moved on over to the Colorodo River where it’s a little greener. We are staying at Emerald Cove Rv park in Earp, Ca for a few days where we have hook-ups again.
It’s a nice change from the desert.
We took a ride up to Lake Hauvasu to see the London Bridge on Tuesday. Hard to believe they moved it all the way from London and reassembled it in the desert. Oh well.
1-26 thru 1-31
Moved on to Quartzite next for the big RV show. Lots of rv vendors set up in a big tent and thousands of people attend year after year. Everyone just camps in the desert and attends the show for a week.
Some of the tents
from left to right-us, Brad & Marilyn, Steve, Julie & Mike, and Carole.
After boondocking for several days we moved over to the Elks Club in Yuma for a few days. Jerry is an offical Elk now so we can camp in their parking lots. While we were parked there I took a little stroll behind the motorhome and found this little guy enjoying the sunshine. He (or she ?) is a burrowing owl and he lives in holes in the ground. He is just a mini owl.
I know a few people think we are crazy for going to the desert to camp and they probably wonder what we do all day. Well there really is a lot to do out here. Like walks across the desert.
Watching sunsets and gunfights.
Or just talking with friends….
in the natural HOT mineral springs in the desert….
Jealous yet?
The sun is shinning in Yuma while there is snow on the ground at home and some of our rv friends are gathering around the campfire here. For the next week they will be stopping by to spend a few days catching up or just getting acquainted with new folks that wasn’t here last year.
As you can see there are a few of us here.
Time to get on the road again. We are now on our way to Yuma, Az for our class reunion. Some of the folks we meet last year and some new ones.
Terri and Jerri we have already been hanging out with and Toni and Doug had us over for Christmas dinner.
On the way to Yuma we just had to check out this bustling town by the name HYDER. So we took a detour from the inter-state and traveled about 15 miles out of the way to check it out.
Ready here it is:
That’s it nothing else there just the general store.
At least the sunset was awesome.
