April 10th

Ha!!! someone tell this month to slow down, it is already the 10th.  It is flying by way to fast.  Before you know it we will be heading back to Washington for a short stay, then off to Coos Bay for the summer.  We will be leaving here on our about the 29th of April and hope to be in the Spanaway area by the 2nd or 3rd of May.  It has been warm and windy here at Salton Sea the last few days, and what I mean by windy like 50 plus miles and hour winds all day long.  I spent most of the day today cleaning the dust and fine sand out of the parts area, tomorrow I will go after the repair side of the shop.
Monday I put Cyndy on a plane to Washington to take care of a few Doctor appointments and personal stuff.  She will be back next Monday and not to soon for Turbo & I, he says their is someone missing from this bed at night.

Yep Nana is happy she is getting her time with Jared, I hope he gives her a lot of kiss's and hugs she needs it from here grand kids.

She even got hugs from our Daughter also, its good to see her smiling like that.  She really Miss's the kids and this is a special time for her.

I know Nana has been here also, MJ and Morgan got their gifts from Disney world, It looks like she got plenty of hugs from these to grand kids also. 
The next few days will be lonely around here but I have plenty of work to do up at the shop, Steve made sure of that.  So let me see 19 days to go and of for the north we go.  The poor trailer as been sitting so long the tires will be flat on one side for a while, get them puppy's heated up and they will be round again. 
That's about it for here now hope everyone is doing good and this summer if any of you are traveling by way of 101 north stop by Steve's ATV Rental and we can say hello.  We are located just north of Coos Bay by about 10 miles.

April 6th

It’s hard to believe we have been here already 6 months.  We were talking with the owners of the Hardware Store right next to our shop today about the temp.  They said that the three years they have been here this is the first spring that has been this hot so soon.  Wait a minute I don’t remember a winter let alone a spring, it feels like summer to this little fat boy already.  Today it got up to 90 plus a little bit.

We have to say this winter here at Salton City has been neat.  It was better than we had hoped for, we have made some great friend over it the Rivera district (it is a group that all live on Rivera street).  They believe in partying every weekend they come over.  This is what they call their winter get away homes out here in the district.  I will try and get some pictures in the next few days.

Cyndy leaves Monday afternoon for home, she will be there for a week so me and Turbo will have to fend for ourselves. She has some doctor appointments and other things she needs to take care of. When she gets back it will be time to start packing things up here and getting ready to leave at the end of the month.  By the way all the rest of next week iks going to be in the low 90’s, not to bad for the desert.

April 3rd

The weather is starting to get hot out here in the desert for this fat old white boy.  Today it was 95 degrees and the air on the trailer is working pretty good.  It is only 78 in here.  Anyway that plenty about the weather here, we are enjoying it while we can. 
Last week we went out for a short ride in the evening and a couple that had been done here a few weeks back rolled Steve's Artic Cat and did a little bit of damage.  So we took them out to the rock they hit to cause this nice role over.

As you can see we named it Richards rock.

 

 

We had a good time, giving him a bad time about not see the rock!!!

Here we are heading up Coral Wash towards the telephone booth!!!

Some of these washes that we ride in are pretty deep, from the run off of water.

Where is this phone booth?

Not a bad picture of a couple out playing in the desert if I say so myself.

Is that the phone booth!!!



 

I will be darn, there it is, now to go and make a phone call.  Their is a way up to the top but we opt out the hill was just a little bit to much for our RZR's, the jeeps have really rutted the trail out.  There is a way around to get up to the top, but it is getting close to dark and we need to head back.  Another day and we will go up to the top.

 

This is looking down the way we came up to this spot.  See the trail way down their.

 



Yep, that's one of the hills we came over and there is more of them going back!!!!

OK. I have to advertise a little for the company we are working for!!!

We had a great ride and I am hoping we can get out a few more times be for we head north.

We also had some old friends stop by yesterday Brad & Sandy, I use to work with them and we did a lot of camping together when our kids were younger.  It was great to see them and we are hoping to get together before we head north.

 

 







March 31st

It has been a long time coming but I had a few minutes and wanted to post a short note on what we have been doing.  I know I try to be a little bit more on top of this but we have been bust and it has been hot, so I complain a lot too.  But anyway we have been busy.

We went out for a ride the other day with a few people.  It was nice to follow someone to and area we haven’t been to before.  We found the telephone booth so we will be back to get some pictures in the next couple of weeks.  We had some friends stop by and say hello.  Woody & Donna spent the night here and we took them to the unveiling of the new Tecate   4 seater here at the Salton City.  They really like having a party for any reason.  Anyway we didn’t get to visit with Woody and Donna much, but I did take Woody out for a little ride in the RZR, I hope he enjoyed it. We are looking forward to seeing them when we get back to Washington.

Speaking of Washington, we have been told that by the 30^th of April we will be able to start heading back to Washington.  But if the weather gets much hotter and the business drop of we may leave a little earlier.  It will be nice to get back and see the grand kids along with our kids and friends.  Well it is getting late and another day here at the Salton City coming to an end.   I am going to try and make time tomorrow to post some pictures of our trip out in the desert the other day.

March 31st

It has been a long time coming but I had a few minutes and wanted to post a short note on what we have been doing.  I know I try to be a little bit more on top of this but we have been bust and it has been hot, so I complain a lot too.  But anyway we have been busy.

We went out for a ride the other day with a few people.  It was nice to follow someone to and area we haven’t been to before.  We found the telephone booth so we will be back to get some pictures in the next couple of weeks.  We had some friends stop by and say hello.  Woody & Donna spent the night here and we took them to the unveiling of the new Tecate   4 seater here at the Salton City.  They really like having a party for any reason.  Anyway we didn’t get to visit with Woody and Donna much, but I did take Woody out for a little ride in the RZR, I hope he enjoyed it. We are looking forward to seeing them when we get back to Washington.

Speaking of Washington, we have been told that by the 30^th of April we will be able to start heading back to Washington.  But if the weather gets much hotter and the business drop of we may leave a little earlier.  It will be nice to get back and see the grand kids along with our kids and friends.  Well it is getting late and another day here at the Salton City coming to an end.   I am going to try and make time tomorrow to post some pictures of our trip out in the desert the other day.

March 18th

It’s hard to believe that we are already back at Salton City and worked 2 days.  Our weekend started today at a little after noon.  Cyndy and I are both looking forward to just sitting back and relaxing a little.  We were on the go so much last week it was hard to even slow down for a minute and enjoy life.  But now looking back on what we did it was great.  We spent time with some great friends and family members.

Cyndy is planning on just getting some of our laundry done tomorrow while relaxing a lot.  Me I have some bikes that I told customers that I would get their bikes ready for next weekend so I am going into work for a half day anyway.  It is hard to believe that in just a little less than 6 weeks and we will be heading out of the desert.  It just seems like we just got here a couple of months ago.  We will head back to Washington for a couple of weeks than we will be going to Coos Bay for the summer to play and work on the coast.  I am looking forward to it but I think Cyndy would rather have more time at home with the grand kids.

Today when we were doing our weekly shopping we stopped by Wal-Mart, and as some of you know it is a nice place to park for an overnight stay while making time between stops if you need it.

Yes this is really a RV, I seen two people come and go while waiting for Cyndy to come out of the store.  At least they don't have their lawn chairs out side.  It is one of those once in a life time RV spotting's that you can't help but take a second look.
We are planning on going out in the desert if it doesn't get to hot.  Yes, it has already been up to 92 degrees this spring.  I hope it cools down a little bit.  It is almost to hot to go riding!!!!

March 15thy

It seems like everyone made it through RD's birthday unscratched and feeling really pretty good.  Heard, RD was up and eating a big breakfast and ready to go out to Hollywood for a day of playing.  We were also going to Hollywood, so after a good breakfast and everyone moving off we went.  Dennis and I meet for breakfast at the dinner the girls were not hungry from what they told us.

OK, so Rose need a snake when we got to Hollywood.  It has been on the cool side while here in Disney World the last couple of days, but I hear tomorrow it is support to warm back up.  Yep, we leave tomorrow so that is pair for the course.

Rose found here love of life, and they say it is always warm in Florida, then why is this snow man still standing.

We went on a few rides and shows while in Hollywood, one being Lights, Motors, Action.  This was a great show on how they do stunts with very fast cars.  I think Dennis and I enjoyed this one more then the girls.  We also seen Indiana Jones and Star Wars Tour.  I can't remember what else we seen but what a day.  It seems like it goes by way to fast.

We did notice one thing here at Disney, they like their Cola products, like $2.75 for a 20 OZ bottle.  But when you want a cola you pay!!!!

We had a great time here at Disney World, but the time went by way to fast.  It was great spending time with Dennis & Rose along with the Prewitt family.  Ronnie you and your family are great and we Love you guys a lot.  Thanks for inviting us to RD's 21st birthday party.  We would never of missed it. 
Tomorrow we get up and start the process of heading back to the West Coast.