I know! You haven’t heard from us for about two weeks and you are wondering if we drove off the end of the earth. Well no, we haven’t gotten to the end of the earth, but I am sure Gila Bend, Arizona can’t be too far from there. It is about half way between Tucson to Yuma and made a nice stop over. It is cheap, about $10, it’s windy and it is close to the freeway so it is somewhat noisy. It does have water and electric, so we are getting the water tank topped off and the batteries charged up. Tomorrow we will return to Mittry Lake. It is close to Yuma, on the Colorado River and we will be meeting several RV’ing friends there. It is also free, no water or electric and probably out of reach of the cell phone and inter-net. We will probably do a little canoeing and a little music around the campfire and a lot of talking. We heard from some friends that the mosquitoes are bad there this year, so we laid in a supply of Cutter.
Tonight I am looking over my shoulder at the rising full moon. The crisp cool desert air sure makes the stars and the moon blaze in full glory. We had a little rain this morning in Benson, Arizona, but by the time we finished the pre-flight inspection it was beginning to clear up and the blue sky was breaking out all over. We almost feel guilty getting all of this warm weather when we see what the rest of the country is going throughÂ…almost, but not quite.
Once we got settled into our new campground in Gila Bend, Judy and I tore all the insides out of the kitchen cabinet. The sink drain flows through a stiff but flexible hose. This hose has to flex when we run the slide in and out. This is the second time it has started leaking. I didn’t have any brilliant new solutions for the connection so I suspect it will have to be fixed again in two or three years. Having all my tools in the shop annex just keeps paying off. I would guess that having someone crawl under there at a service center would have cost several hundred dollars. Judy snapped a photo of me disappearing into the cabinet. Now I am sure you don’t want to look at a photo of me crawling into the kitchen cabinet. However, if you have a sadistic streak you can go to the bottom of the page and see me trying to reach through the cabinet into the wall opening behind.The previous episode of this saga can be found at (under construction – link to come later) it is called “Rising Water.”
Well anyway, spring is coming and we will start our northerly migration in a few more weeks. Y’all take care.
Gary and Judy
