Merry Christmas

We spent Christmas with the Henslers. Tim, Carol, Mark, David plus Mark's fiancee Chrisha and her brother Jesse came to our house. We had roasted chicken, ham and the fixens. Cindy made a delicious cranberry stuffing. We had vegan gravy and green beans and mashed potatoes. There was a lot things to eat for us vegans. We had a good assortment of desserts too. There was board games galore to play plus Dan brought his big screen HD setup. We watched stuff on it and playing WII games on it is a lot of fun.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!

Dan's bathroom remodeling

This week Dan and Mike remodeled his downstairs bathroom for his new renter/friend, Ken. The bathroom was in bad shape and needed a new vanity and tub/shower surround. The shower area had ceramic tile which had to removed because the drywall was water damaged and some of the studs were termite damaged. So we hammered, chipped, soldered pipes, pushed, pulled and did what ever it took to make the bathroom usuable and pretty. There is still some drywall repair to do around the shower and that will be done in a week, but at least the bathroom is now usable.

We're home!

Today, Friday December 5 we drove 2 1/2 hours from Palm Springs. We dropped Dan off at his house first. His cat Jake was waiting for him. Cindy and I picked up Subway sandwiches on the way to our house to satisfy our appetites. I guess we didn't feel like cooking. Anyway we had a great time travelling and seeing things and visiting Steve and Sudi. It was a little tight all living together in our compact motorhome but we enjoyed ourselves in a new adventure.

Last Stop

Tonight we are staying in the Palm Springs area in Desert Hot Springs at a nice RV resort that has a natural hot springs well that fills the hot tub and pool. We've been here before and it is so refreshing. Dan loved it. After we made pizzas and had dinner we jumped in. Tomorrow we leave in the morning and head for home, only about 3 hours away! No place like home.

Petrified Forest

Today, Wednesday we woke up to a light dusting of snow in New Mexico. We took off to Arizona to visit Petrified Forest National Park and the Painted Desert which kind of surrounds it. We took the 28 mile route which winds around inside the park. It is very colorful and we saw a lot of petrified logs and parts of logs. Millions of years ago the whole area was flooded with water and covered the trees. Silica from the water saturated the trees and turned the wood fiber into minerals and stone. There are no trees standing now just pieces of tree logs. For years people just took the petrified wood and made souvenirs and really scavenged the area. It was finally made a national park and is now a criminal offense to take anything out of the park. Tomorrow we head towards Flagstaf and then maybe camp one more night and return home Friday morning.

From Texas to Home

Yesterday we left Benbrook, Tx for home. We got as far as Amarillo, Tx and dry camped at a Flying J Travel Center. We parked with the big rig trucks. We got gas for, gasp!, $1.57. Today we are staying at an RV park near Albuquerque, New Mexico. We got there early so we went and saw some very interesting Indian ruins. Then we drove back to the RV park and Dan cooked us dinner- Hamburgers and baked beans with chips and salsa. It was delicious!