Thurs. Jan.12th Meeting fellow Bloggers

Join us as we travel North America in our Holiday Rambler Vacationer,

 since August 2006 

 Where are we Today ?

Pilot Knob Rv Resort Winterhaven California

        Another good nights sleep and up early, coffees, computing, check emails and post the blog is the order of the day. Well we had a comment on yesterdays posting from fellow Bloggers Peter and Beatrix (American Traveller) that they had returned to Hot Springs from Joshua Tree National Park and would love to meet us. Well we are on the road this morning, so we packed up and headed out to search for them (no campsites here just park in the desert). Not too far away we did find them and had a nice but short visit with a couple very nice couple of rv'ers from Eastern Canada. They also love the Arizona beauty and climate. It is soo cool meeting up with fellow bloggers who love the lifestyle that we have.

Peter and Bea

        Sorry to say goodbye so soon but at least we met. Back to home dirt we said our farewells to the group we just spent a week with,  promising to get together in Quartzsite next wednesday at Silly Al's for pizza, a must place to visit when in town. Hooked up our car and away we go!

        Now the bridge is still closed to the interstate only a mile away( and will be for quite a few months yet) so we had to take old hwy 80 for 12 miles east to get access. Ok now we have been on bad roads but this one has to take the prize so far.  Even Mexico would be hard to top this one for being rough. At least it was paved but very broken up over 45 minutes to travel this stretch most of it about 10 to 15 mph (16-25kph) and shaking our coach like crazy.

broken pavement for 12 miles (19 km)

       Now on I-8 and a smooth surface we made ou way to Pilot Knob Resort in Winterhaven California. Almost 90 minutes to travel 31 miles (50 kilometers). We passed the Imperial sand dunes and canal where we have camped a few times in the past with great memories of dune buggies and sand toys with people we met along the way.

31 miles today

we have camped here

the canal

exit to access the dunes

more rv's playing here

        Now that was a long rough drive to go a short distance but we are here at Pilot Knob resort. All checked in and set up, a bite for lunch and reset our clocks to Arizona time for we are almost on the California/Arizona state line. Arizona does not recognize daylight saving time you can read about it here.

Pilot Knob Resort

        Now to putter around a bit the a walkabout to checkout the library in the clubhouse. Well we didn't quite make it that far. Ran into Rick and Suzy another couple of fulltime rv'ers that we met last year in Rockport Texas. So stopped say hello, chat and catch up for a while, its so much fun meeting up again with people we have met on the road.

        Its time to go back home (library maybe tomorrow), fire up our weber to grill a couple pork chops with a  rice pilaf  for tasty supper, then relax with with our books and a bit of tv.

tasty

        Thanks again for stopping by and joining our travels.

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