Ron and Sheila took Lester and Marie to Tyler to pick up a rental car. Lester and Marie were headed for College Station, TX to pick up their son and his wife. After that they were heading for Padre Island, TX which is on the Gulf of Mexico, almost to Mexico. They won't return here until after we have left. They have invited us to come stay with them in Newfoundland. It is a LONG way, 2,000 miles from Toledo and accessible only by ferry (I think the ferry ride is around 8 hours long. A round trip ferry ticket for Kathy and I, plus our RV and CRV would be well over $1,000.). I don't know that we will make it there for a visit but it was great getting to know some "Newfies".
We went to Juanita's Mexican Buffet for lunch and it was good, again. After getting back to the motorhome I recharged the water softener and finally found the reason we weren't getting a turn signal on the CRV, when it was hooked up to the motorhome. A fuse was blown. The wires carry the turn signal to the electrical connector at the hitch are fused separately from the turn signals on the coach. I called they help line at Freightliner and the guy helped me find the correct fuse panel, and fuse.
After than we took a stroll around the camp. It was partly sunny and 60 degrees. I set outside for awhile and had to come in after having to kill a mosquito that was bothering me.
We started formulating our travel plans for Oakland. We plan on heading out the morning of Tuesday, the 27th. We will spend the first night at a rest area or maybe a Walmart parking lot somewhere between Dallas and El Paso. The second night we will stay in a campground near El Paso. I plan on having the motorhome oil changed Friday morning, the 30th, while in El Paso.
We would like to make it to near Tucson by Friday evening but since it is over 300 miles we don't know how that will go. Neither of us wants to travel in the dark, can see anything, so where we spend Friday night depends on how long it takes to get the oil changed. We will probably stay in the Tucson area until Tuesday morning, Jan 3rd. It looks like there are some interesting things to see within reasonable driving distances from Tucson and we don't really want to travel over the New Years Day holiday.
We will spend Tuesday night in/near Quartzsite, AZ. Quartzsite is the home of HUGE RV rallies during the winter. People get cheap permits form the Bureau of Land Management and just drive out into the desert and set up cities. I want to spend a little time looking around there. We will stay in a campground <grin>. The population of Quartzsite is less than 4,000 yet they have over two million visitors a year, and I'm sure most of them are during the cooler months.
From Quartzsite we will drive to Palm Springs, CA and spend some time there. We can drive from Palm Springs to Oakland in two days if we want, so we will have time to spend in Palm Springs and the area between Palm Springs and Oakland.
We plan to arrive in Oakland on Jan 13th.
All of this is just our guess at what we think our schedule will be. We will make adjustments as required. We have to keep telling ourselves that we are retired and that we don't have to be in a hurry. We have time to stop and see anything that looks interesting along the way.
Good night to all and may God bless you and yours.
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