The End of the Rally and Another Travel Day

First let me post a couple of pictures of the Harrier jets that I promised in the last post. 

That’s a load of armament  on the bottom of the plane.  I’m glad they’re on our side!  It’s amazing that they come in for a landing and just stop in midair and slowly descend like a helicopter.  Here’s a bad picture of one landing.If you want more information on the Harrier, click on the following list:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrier_jet

The weather has been great all week except for a little wind on Tuesday.  It’s been a fun rally,  with some good seminars and interesting people.  We took some time to wander around Yuma and even do a little geocaching.  There was one called “ATM” that was a old ATM machine with a combination lock.  We tried & tried and couldn’t get it open.  I guess this means another trip to Yuma sometime in the future.

Our Wine Seminar was on Thursday afternoon at 3:00.  Since it was the last day of the rally, we weren’t expecting a large crowd, but about 65 people showed up.  Linda did a great job of hosting the tasting portion, and the presentation was well received with a lot of good questions.  It was a lot of fun to be back presenting again, so we’ll continue to do it when the opportunity is available.  In fact next week we’ll be doing it all over again at the Monaco rally in Tucson.  You know what they say, practice makes perfect.

Our travel day on Friday dawned clear with no wind.  We didn’t know what to do! It was a smooth uneventful drive to Tucson where we’re at Beaudry RV parked in a nice spot waiting for the next week’s rally.  We decided to come straight here as some of our friends from the Northwest will be coming in Saturday.  We’re really looking forward to seeing everyone again.

Yuma, AZ

Saturday night before we were leaving Casa Grande, we had a delightful dinner with Bob & Maggie.  We have been traveling together for the last 3 months and we had some great times together.

Sunday morning we packed everything up and headed to the Gypsy Journal Rally in Yuma, AZ.  We have subscribed to the journal for about 8 years and enjoy reading it.  And we read Nick’s Blog almost everyday.  And he’s a down to earth fulltimer who always writes something interesting.

As we left Casa Grande, guess what happened? Yep, it started to rain.  It seems that every time we travel lately we have bad weather.  It not only was raining but the wind was blowing hard.  I had to really pay attention because a sudden gust against the side of the MoHo can push you sideways.  When we arrived we had to wait in a staging area while some other RV were late in leaving because of the weather.

When we finally got in, through a very narrow gate, we found something we really liked. Real grass for our dog Pearl.  She was very happy, even with the rain.  We’re right across the street from the Marine Air Station.  It’s home to some Harrier jets and F-5s. It’s like an alarm clock, but we think of them as the Sound of Freedom! They’re really not that bad because they don’t fly late at night.  We did get a beautiful sunset tonight.We’ll be here until the rally ends on Friday.  Thursday afternoon I’m giving my Wine talk, so we’ll see how it goes.  It should be a fun week.

Another Blog to Read

Not much happened today, so we though we would share one of our favorite blogs with you.

Nick Russell writes a blog imaginably called "Nick's Blog". Nick and his wife Terry started fulltiming over 10 years ago. They were living in Show Low AZ, Nick running the local paper, and Terry managing a glass shop. They sold their house, and hit the road.

They started in a motorhome, but sold it for a bus conversion. They needed to some additional income, so Nick started to do what he does best, write and publish a newspaper on the road, so the Gypsy Journal was born. And that's how we found out about them with a subscription to their paper.

A couple of years ago Nick started the blog. He writes a new entry every day about what they're doing, where they are, and a lot of times some sage advice. It's always interesting, and we never miss a day.

So check out Nick's blog to find out what a real RV blog is about. You'll get hooked the same as we are. You can click on the underlined Nick's Blog.