On The Road Again!

     All good things must end and today marks the end of our stay in Southern California. We arrived here Christmas Eve, took a one week trip in early January to Northern California for a visit with the Napa contingent of the Richards family, then returned to the Coachella Valley for two more months. We had a great time during our stay - spending time with family, hiking, biking, eating way more Mexican food (and drinking way more margaritas) than we probably should have and enjoying the incredible weather and sunshine that makes this part of the country such a great place spend a Winter. 
    Pulling out of Motorcoach Country Club was bitter sweet. We really couldn't have had a better time during our visit - but it does seem nice getting back out on the road and looking forward to new adventures.
    Our original plan was to spend two nights near Salton Sea after leaving La Quinta, then head for Lake Havasu, AZ for a couple of days. But upon further consideration we decided, instead, to check out of Indian Wells RV Resort and into Motorcoach Country Club for two more nights of luxury RVing ...and save the Salton Sea trip for another time.
    We made a few new friends during our stay at Indian Wells. We'll especially miss Tim, our next door neighbor for the past two months. On Wednesday, the day we moved from IW to MCC, we invited Tim over for dinner and a few mild intoxicants and had a great time! He's my newest Facebook friend - so we'll be keeping in touch.

    We opted for a "Privacy" site at MCC this time rather than the "Premium Improved" site we had at Christmastime.
    About half the cost - but still very nice...

    Yesterday we returned to the Urgent Care facility to have Suzanne's sutures removed. Her finger seems to be healing well. I don't know if I mentioned it in my last blog but I came down with some sort of bug after returning from our trip to Virginia last month. When Suzanne had her two day follow-up appointment at Urgent Care to make sure her injury wasn't infected, I also saw the Dr. to find out what was going on in my chest. At the time I had been sick for a week and didn't seem to be getting much better. He was pretty confident it was bronchitis (and not a bacterial infection) and prescribed a couple meds, one of which was doxycycline. He advised that I NOT take the doxycycline unless there was no improvement in seven days. I've been coughing and feeling generally wiped out since then and yesterday, having been sick for three weeks, I decided to start taking the doxy. It may be my imagination but I think I'm beginning to feel better already. We'll see. 

    The Tour chugged up over Chiriaco Summit  without even breathing hard. The last time we climbed out of the Coachella Valley we were in our Fleetwood Discovery and had to pull over and let the engine cool at about the halfway point. I guess that's the difference between a CAT 330 and a Cummins 450. Size really does matter when it comes to diesel pushers.

    We logged 185 miles today, most of which were through some relatively desolate (but beautiful) landscapes...

     

     Crossing the mighty Colorado River near Parker Arizona...

     

      So here we are at Havasu Falls RV Resort for the next two nights. We'll be leaving Sunday morning and heading for somewhere around Flagstaff, AZ.
     Suzanne has to fly to NYC on the 18th for three or four days. She'll be flying out of and returning to Dallas where Travis and I will spend some time getting to know the area and retrieving balls. Well, he'll do the retrieving, I'll do the throwing. I'm also thinking about a JFK assassination tour!?

     Back to blogging on a daily basis.


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