The Buchanans Rolling Down The Road

February 6th 2020

Big day today, the Buchanan’s are headed north on AZ-95, all the way from LaPosa West all the way to Plamosa Road, this is a BLM area that is along the roadway, it runs a length of about 16 miles, we picked a spot about two miles down Plamosa Road away from Highway 95. This is an area that is very similar to the terrain that we experienced at Roadrunner BLM, it is referred to as desert pavement, basically just a surface covered with stones, so there should be less dust although we are only here for a few days. We are about five miles north of Quartzsite and this was the view out of our windshield tonight.

View from our windshields

This is one of the reasons that we trudge our way to Arizona, and of course there is the 70 or 20 degree thing, and the 17% humidity thing, and the no mosquito thing, and the no rain thing, and the lack of clouds, and of course there is the beautiful landscape…just saying.

Our home for the weekend at Plamosa Road BLM

The evenings are so amazing, no light pollution, more stars than you could even imagine, we are being blessed with a full moon this weekend. Today was a moving day, all of 14 miles including the trip to the dump station and fresh water fill. We had a couple of days left on the LTVA but we wanted to get out of the dust, and get to a little quieter area, away from the main highway. The problem with the highway was the rumble strips, it’s not a wide road and has rumble strips on both edges and down the center lane, which everyone seemed to able to hit as they travelled the highway.

Desert Pavement

Miss Laurie got another load of laundry done, today to top off our grey tank before I went to dump, which mean less laundry next week when we make it to full hookups in Nevada. We have a couple of events before we head up to Nevada on Monday, we are only a couple of hours away, but we need to get Thunder cleaned up from over two months in the desert dust before we head up to Vegas so that probably means heading through Kingman AZ for a Thunder spa at the Blue Beacon truck wash and a trip over the new bridge at Hoover Dam.

February 5th 2020

Well once we get the ice out of the humming bird feeder, today is going to be a special day. The Bannon’s are stopping by our little piece of desert to pick us up for a trip to Yuma for lunch with Francine and Gilles, we have not seen them since since last spring in Florida. We had planned a visit in January, but because of unforeseen issues, we were unable to get together before we had to move on. But all systems are a go today.

So the plan was to meet at a place in Yuma called Burgers & Beer, what could possibly be wrong with that, I just happen to like both of those items. But when I got looking at the menu there were so many items that looked really good, I bounced between a bacon wrapped hot dog, a blue cheese burger, but I settled on a shrimp poor boy and I do believe it was an excellent choice. It was great to catch up on the past few months and discover what everyone has planned for the short term as well as the long range plans for next winter. It seems that we are all aimed for different part of the southern states next winter. Again keeping in touch with all these full time travelers is easy with social media but being able visit with everyone keeps becoming more difficult as next winter has people scattered from the Carolinas to Arizona and a number of spots in between. While our winter plans are not set in stone we are still looking at a number of options, in fact it really is too far off for us to be doing anything other just pitching ideas back and forth, because we are ok just boondocking for a winter of living off grid is ok with us.

Notice how I tried to make it ok by adding a salad…lol

It is always great getting together with our RV family, and when your friends are from all different areas and travel full time there are always some great stories of places that have been visited, adventures that have been memorable, stories of travel issues either road conditions, new city bypasses, and of course equipment problems, and of course discussing everyone’s travel plans, either short and long term as we try to plan our next opportunity for a rendezvous.

Shari, Laurie, Francine, Gilles, Myself and Bob

But our day did not end with lunch, as our tour guides took us sight seeing to the sand dunes in Glamis CA and to the bird sanctuary at Cibola AZ, both were new to the Buchanan’s and both will be worthy of revisiting, just a couple more amazing spots out here in the desert.