Yeah, Yeah........I Know........

.....ain't posted nuttin for a loong time. That's cause nutting has been happening, no earthquakes, no snow storms, no lightening strikes, no flash floods, no nothing except we're in a "heat wave" that appears to have no end in sight. Gonna be 82-84 degrees for the rest of the month and then it starts to get warmer. Just checked at home and it's raining..........and gonna be raining for the rest of the month. What's a poor soul to do???

Well, the first weekend of the month I had two "old" friends visit Yuma...........went to high school with both of them and one I hadn't seen since 1958 when we graduated from Boot Camp together. Saw the other one about a year ago as he lives on the California coast. Boy do they look "OLD"...........unlike me. We had a good time reliving high school days in Falls City, Nebraska. Becky just sat and took it all in.........I think she was taking notes at first and then realized that we were all little "angels" when we were in high school so there was no "dirt" to reflect back on. Took them on a mini tour of Yuma and then on Sunday we took a 110 mile roundtrip into the desert. Loooonnng day but they found the desert interesting...........flowers are starting to bloom and we even found a few cactus with nice blooms starting. All in all a pretty good day............we headed South as far as we could drive on the Barry Goldwater Bombing Range as we wanted to get a look at "The Fence". Unfortunately we couldn't drive to it as we had done in the past..........found a nice road with a big sign that read "For Official Use Only" and I chickened out from driving any further. Big fine awaits those who tread where they shouldn't so we passed on Da Fence. One guy lives in Texas and if gas prices drop back down to 1955 levels (17 cents a gallon) we might head back that way. In the meantime I won't hold my breath.

Still looking to get out of here the end of the month so I outta get started on throwing things away and packing things up. Can't do it all in a day. I got my little enclosed trailer to load up with things we don't have to haul back with us and a friend gave me a parking spot at his house. They are winter visitors also; but, instead of RVing it they have a place down here..........so will park at his place and fill the trailer up with goodies I got laying around..........we kinda look like the "Grapes of Wrath" with stuff I haul back and forth.

Haven't decided on a route home yet..........I'd kinda like to travel North in Nevada to Reno; but, crossing over the mountains from Reno to Sacramento in early April can be tricky. Most of the time chains are required to be carried with you even if you don't have to use them. In the end we'll probably go the Southern route to Bakersfield and then North on I-5. That eliminates Las Vegas which is probably a good thing.

Will check the local movies to see if anything is interesting...........that'll give us a couple of hours out of this heat wave. Later.....probably much later. W&B