Well, Well, Well ..... Guess who is back in Yuma????

After a "not so good" night, we were determined this morning to continue moving North.  As we got underway there was another alarm beeping at us telling us of a problem with the batteries.  Got a little scared and decided to return to Yuma and get the problems solved before we got stranded somewhere we didn't want to be.

We kind of resemble "trailer trash" now.  In order to stay in the coach, we have extension cords running in the driver side to power the front TV, Satellite Dish, and VCR - got to have our Soaps you know!  Cords running into the bedroom window for the rear TV - hard to go to sleep without Jay Leno!  And a cord running to the side window to power our computers, air card for Internet and a lamp.  We have the use of the Casita for the microwave and shower (so much easier than running another extension cord and if you have a big shower why not use it!) - Life could be a lot worse.  We will have to hook the coach batteries up to a charger each day to keep them up - difficult if not impossible if we were not here on the lot.

Stay tuned for more updates.  I am keeping Facebook updated just about as soon as we know anything, so check us out there.



First day out on our "Summer Travels" - not such a great start!!!!

Left Casa Clarkson at just about 1pm as anticipated - everything secured for our 3-4 month travel adventure.  First stop - Fry's fuel station to top off our diesel.  All is well until we try to leave!!!  The coach will not start - now what???  A call to Coach-Net and we are connected to a technician - he has us to a couple things (that don't work) and then says he will have someone come out and try to give us a "jump start".  Well long story short - about an hour later a guy came and was able to "jump start" us and we were on our way.  Since our starter battery was quite old (November of 2004) we decided that perhaps that was the problem now.  Without resources, we went back to the lot to retrieve the local phone books.

Next step was to go to the local Interstate Batteries - upon getting there it was decided to not get another 8D battery but two AGM batteries.  Interstate doesn't do installations, but I guess they thought that helping out was a better idea than us blocking their lot for too long.  The batteries were installed and the coach started great. 

Long story short - the decision was made to head North at all costs.  The Inverter was beeping an error, but the coach started and seemed to be running well.  We ended up stopping in Quartzsite Arizona for the night - not quite Parker, but close enough.  We got a good site with 50 amp full-hookups.  oops ... that pesky Inverter still had more trials for us this day.  We have good ac power to the coach (the Progressive unit says so), but there is no electricity to any of the outlets!  Tried to reproduce the magic that Al's RV did a few weeks ago when the same thing happened, but no luck.  At least the air conditioners work!  And thank goodness we have the old RV refigerator that runs from propane.  A power cord from the 20 amp plug on the pedistal is providing us with power for the computers and air card.  We are in the dark, but we are cool and safe.  Hopefully we will make it further North tomorrow - to Mesquite Nevada - and be able to figure out this mess!

It has not been a great start to our travel season - to say the least.  Stay tuned to follow our "adventure"!!!!

New neighbor???

Our neighbors to the West of us are gone for the Summer - like just about everyone else here in the Foothills.  Noticed a new resident - wish we would be here to see the babies!  This is a light fixture on their porch that the plastic lens has been removed - looks like the perfect spot to make a home - precious!

A "way to short" visit by more family!

We enjoyed a very short visit by two of Andy's kids and a "future son-in-law?".  Time will tell on that one, but let it be known that Martin would be a welcome member of the family.  Pictured left to right are me, Andy, Martin, Dianna and AJ.  Turns out they came on the hottest day so far this year, but we were quite comfortable in the Ramada with the misters going and the sun shades down.  Looking forward to another reunion really soon.

Happy Anniversary to Us!!!!!

Celebrating 14 years of married life!  Very low key this year, but watch out next year - 15 will be significant and we might just have to really celebrate.