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Taken In Quartzsite Arizona Dec 7th 2015
Showing posts with label winter 2018-19. Show all posts
Showing posts with label winter 2018-19. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

A perfect travel day and getting together with some family for dinner.

Where are we today ? 
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      Late morning here and I slept in ! Wow what the heck 6:30 this morning guess my body did not want us to leave. But got my oatmeal, eaten, coffees consumed, some computing done and only a 1/2 mile walkabout. We secured the coach, unhooked from power and were on the road as planned at 8 AM. First stop the Flying J,  30 minutes north to top up our propane and continued up I-75 north bound. Stopped at a few rest areas to stretch and carried on. Not much traffic today.
a nice sunrise on our site
lovely pond reflections
heading north on I-75
       Crossed into Michigan and the usual bad road, the first sign I saw was  Pot hole hot line and a phone number ! That about says it all, A few construction zones but good travelling , whipped on by Detroit , and 96 to 94 to Port Huron Michigan. Once past Detroit 94 was a good drive, making good time.
I-94 a very nice quiet drive
       We stopped at the last rest area in Michigan here about 11:30 made lunch, and carried on another 20  Miles to Fuel up in Marysville  Michigan, just 20 miles before be cross the border at Port huron . The Blue water Bridge into Canada. The only slow down we had today was the line up to pay the toll for the the bridge.
crossing the bridge to Canada
no lineup at customs
    A couple of quick questions and we were back into Canada another easy border crossing.
Here in Ontario , Open for Business
love the sign
hwy 402 a nice drive we love
then at Strathroy take the back roads to New Hamburg 
passed a few nice horse farms and stables along the way
a nice operation here
love these back roads
      We arrived at Suzie's brothers' Place at 3:40 pm 20 minutes later than usual. backed into our usual spot got set up  Suzie and Sandy (SIL) went and picked up her Dad at 4:15 , and back here. She helps me fine tune the satellite dish, then Visited with her Dad. for a bit.
       That all done and when Dennis git back from chores we headed into Plattsville to the Trails Edge. For their Wing night, Love their wings here and have been craving them for quite a while. & of us had to wait about 20 minutes for a table , but worth the wait, Jen our favourite waitress has been here forever took care of us right away.
Really like the food here
always good and always busy
waiting for our table
    We were seated and all together with Suzie's family.
LR, Suzie's sister Rose, me, Suzie, her Dad,
brother dennis, SIL Sandy, and BIL Ross.
     Our food came Suzie and I shared 17 breaded wings, with suicode sauce on the side, large fries, celery and carrots, with ranch and blue cheese.
we sure had a feed of wings
of course I have my hot sauce to spruce up their
Suicide make it better
         We have wonderful meal and fun family time catching up the  soon to head back home shortly after 8 pm Gonna bee a cold night tonight around freezing but we will be toasty warm inside.
 little history of Plattsville.
very interesting
    A wonderful travel day and so nice to get together with some family once again, Coolere here for a bit but will soon warm up again.
    Thanks for joining us today and hope you enjoyed our winter travels. More fun stuff for the  summer here as well.
315 miles today

Want to learn more about Membership camping at Rock Glen Family Resort ? 
click this link www.geosuzie.rockglen.com to book a tour
 Where have we been this Winter?

Tuesday, April 09, 2019

Perfect weather for wrapping up our last day here.

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       Another great sleep . Having stayed awake until 10 pm last night because I was outside until 9 Pm enjoy the warm air and more of a wonderful sunset. I actually slept until 5:30 this morning, ah thats better but seems like a later start to my day, lol...
     Got a nice morning walkabout , and what is going to be another wonderful day.
nice sunrise on the walking bridge
me and my long legged shadow
       Finally at 9:30 Suzie had the laundry sorted so I took it into Wapa the nice new laundry they opened last year., or was it the year before? All wonderful front loading new machines, and completely redone. This place is spotless. The friendly lady there so helpful with this card system, I have chatted with her over the years. She has been working here for 9 years now. Probably as long as we have been coming here.
          Laundry done and folded I was home in an hour by 10:30. Suzie put it all away. Then we had already decided to go for lunch our last day here. And the place we enjoy is the Lucky Steer, in particular their broasted chicken one of our favourite meals. They have a very extensive menu, but we need our broasted chicken fix, lol. They had All you can eat Fish and salad bar today, but we were here for the chicken. On Fridays they have all you can eat chicken and fish for less than 10 bucks , we had that last year, was excllent.
     So we ordered the 3 piece chicken with fries and a side salad. what an excellent side salad , almost a meal1
a huge side salad included
3 pieces of chicken each and a fresh baked biscuit for me,
we know it was cooked to order chicken takes 20 minutes 
very hot, oh my so good !
         We enjoyed every bite but could not finish it, no problem left over chicken and buns is wonderful for tomorrows lunch. And all this food for less than 20 bucks. Worth it for a nice tasty treat . Our last day here. Bo supper tonight thats for sure, ws our pan anyway.
         One of the nice things about this campground is we are less than 2 miles from most everything in Wapa, other then the old town. Back home by 12:30 dropped Dsuzie off, now I can head back over I-75 and pick up a few last minute groceries without dragging Suzie along, she hates shopping.
we have toured this museum many years ago
a wonderful place to visit some history
that I saw live way back when
        Now back home once again. to put out Weber Q away, check our tires and oil on the coach, have a nice long hot shower, dump and flush our sewage then top up our fresh water tank that we will need back home.
      Even lotsa time to relax outside enjoying our page turners, beside an afternoon campfire on a wonderful 68f sunny spring afternoon. Some one had left some nice firewood here and was a perfect day to use it up. First campfire this spring.
they have nice new fire pits here on every site
couple of hours later it burned down soon all gone
thanks whoever left it
        The we hooked up our car having a nice pull through site so we don't have to do it in the predicted cold weather tomorrow morning. Just need to unplug power and away we go .
ready to head out in the morning
        Ok we had a wonderful last day here, getting things done, enjoying the weather, a tasty, lunch, a campfire, even a happy hour for the 2 of us. Enjoying our page turners still outside at 7pm and 70 F here on our patio . I want to wrap up this posting and cheat with a late night sunset photo I took after last nights posting. Probably close to that again tonight. So I can get right back into my book.
such a colourful sunset
     Thanks again for stopping by and following along with us. Glad you dropped in. Our last posting for this winter in the the USA and all the wonderful places we have been. Only about 300 miles or so tomorrow and a boarder crossing, back to new Hamburg for a couple of weeks, is our plan, but ya know things can  change.
Want to learn more about Membership camping at Rock Glen Family Resort ?
 click this link www.geosuzie.rockglen.com to book a tour 
 Where have we been this Winter?

Monday, April 08, 2019

A perfect day was supposed to rain but didn't, sunny warm and a fun Happy hour with fellow bloggers.

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      Very mild again over night with rain a good sleep at 5 am was 58F and the rain had stopped so got out and about for a nice long walkabout. And another couple more walkabouts then lite lunch.
they have some nice cabins here by the pond
a bit more water in the creek this morning
they have a very nice play area here for the kids
clubhouse
nicely set up in the clubhouse
they even have bicycles here for members to use
           Now after lunch I took a drive about Wapa, to the downtown area I love, and checked out the Community Market there, They have been renovating for over 2 years now and is becoming an amazing store, Picked up a couple of deals there then back to Aldies where I picked up a very nice 10 lb spiral cut ham for Easter, wow what a deal 89 cents a lb, no matter the exchange it was still an awesome deal.


   

Wapa Courthouse
nice old firehall
love the theatre
and the old buildings downtown
gotta love a drive thru Beer Cave
           Back home by noon and  checked out the pool. Hey nobody there , perfect will be nice and quiet, Yesterday (Sunday) many families lots of kids, close to 50 people there and very loud. No thanks I can wait till today when it is nice and quiet. I soaked in the hot tub for a while and swam a few laps of this lovely huge pool. Read for a while and dried off. This is this first time I went swimming all winter and likely the last  for a while.
love this pool and hot tubs here, 2 of them
         Then at 3 pm we had visitors for Happy Hour Deb and Riley fellow bloggers (On a Long Lonesome Highway) from Ontario we have followed for a few years and last saw them in the desert of Arizona, They are full-time as well making their way back home too.
        They got in touch and not far down the road and asked to join us for Happy hour. heck ya, come over. The got here at 2:30 and the conversation just flowed. Wow, where does the times go? Before we knew it was after 5 pm, so they headed on home. What a great visit we had.
Riley and Deb
Suzie, Riley and Deb
super people
heading out in the Dogsled nice to see you guys again
and catch up, safe travels
     Sad to see them go but time to whip up supper, the weather today turned out to be excellent, low 70's was perfect and the predicted rains did not happen. Bonus!
        After they headed home I fired up our Weber Q and grilled a nice small pork Tenderloin. for tonights supper, added to our salad sure hit the spot.
About 20 minutes on low and slow, turning a few times
internal temp 145F Perfect
oh my tasty, tender cut with a fork
        After supper we headed back outside to enjoy this warm day. Here it is almost 8 pm and still low 70's F. Really gotta love it. I will wrap up this posting read for a bit then head inside for the night. Almost too nice to go in, but will cool down soon. The sun is setting.
sitting right here this is what we enjoyed
yup another perfect day
    We watch a DVD movies last not "Along Came a Spider" what a fantastic move it was with Morgan Freeman as Alex Cross. One of the first movies I have stayed awake for all the way through, go I know it was good.
    A list of James Patterson 26 books featuring Alex Cross click HERE  I know I read  Along Came a spider years ago in paper back and on my KOBO I have read many more Pattersons 6 so far featuring Alex Cross always good page turners. And maybe another 20 of  his different series..
    Thanks for taking the time to enjoy the day with us , and hope yours was good one as well.

Want to learn more about Membership camping at Rock Glen Family Resort ? 
click this link www.geosuzie.rockglen.com to book a tour 
 Where have we been this Winter?