Resting for the evening

December 13th 2008 57* clear and windy

We are sitting in Needles California at a Marian/Rv park. Nice place and full hookups. This sits on the Colorado river and is not to far from Lake Havasu Arizona, we have about 120 miles to go to get to Quartzsite Arizona. We hit the gammot today. Left the beach at 55 degrees and sunny, ran into some fog near Bakersfield and then into Tehachapi where the temperature continued to fall until bottoming out at 31* and SNOWING! It was no longer fog but snow! Fortunately it was not sticking to the road and it was not slippery. We cleared Tehachapi at 4200 feet and began the ride down hill. The further we got the warmer it got at one point it was 62 degrees! Here it is still pretty nice for late evening.









Deanna heated up the leftover pizza and we had that for dinner and I had some multigrain salsa chips!

Found diesel in California the cheapest yet, $2.09 cash! WOW, I didn't really need any but filled up anyway! Only took about 20 gallons but that ensured we would have enough to make it the rest of the way to Quartzsite without having to refuel. Mileage was 11.5 on the last tank, that is fantastic! We made about 430 miles today and was dark when we arrived. The thing about out west here is there is not an rv park on every exit like back east, prior to this park the last one was over 90 miles back.

Well, anyway we have full hookups for a night and I got all the tanks cleaned and dumped, will fill the fresh water tomorrow before we leave.

Spoke to my uncle Dave last night and told him we were coming to see him end of next week and he told me that my aunt is not doing well back in Ohio. She had gotten alzimers now and has progressed so fast she doesn't even know her daughter. :( She will be going to a nursing home when she leaves the hospital. These are the last brother and sister of my dad. Will be good to see David.

Everyone have a good day tomorrow and I will write more soon.