Just a down day, this morning has a little rain in store for us, and it is a cloudy dreary day. Our group of coaches keeps dwindling everyday, we lost another three today, solar harvest this morning is nonexistent, so I will need to have a little generator time again today. There are lots of repairs and upgrades going on around us. There is a refurbished “Aqua-Hot” system being installed, there is a coach having the roof repainted, as well as lots of little projects being carried out.

This has been our second full day without the windows in the front of the coach and it is amazing how much more noise we hear, I have finished the lamps today all fourteen of them. And while a bit of a pain in the butt, it was just a time consuming slicing all the wires, the lights are 12 volt so just crimped connections. Miss Laurie is thrilled that there is so much coverage of the impeachment on the television, especially on a day that we can’t do a lot outside. But I guess that will be the new normal for a few weeks, as the drama around the president continues, supporter or not you have to admit there has been no end to the drama…like seriously!

So this evening we have decided to venture into Quartzsite to Silly Al’s, for some pizza and a little entertainment. We would normally not even try this but Ronda and Pat who we met at the rally suggested it and I just thought it would be good to get out, and we haven’t had a pizza fix like forever. So you know it’s going to be a crazy night when they are lined up out the door, but that’s late January in Quartzsite! Only an hour wait, not to bad, and so now we have an hour to meet new people in line, some folks from British Columbia who are down for the winter. And as the night went on there would be a lot more Canadian content…just saying

We are called to a table, order some drinks and pizza, the place is packed. Lots of activity and there is a band that is just starting to set up, “Wicked Truth” they are a group from Toronto, I had seen some postings on Facebook that they had performed at the split rail RV park on Monday night and that they were quite good. Just to add to our night they were introduced by Peter of the “RV Geeks” a Canadian YouTuber from British Columbia, who were there with a group from the “R Village” which is an website that you can post your location on and can see who is camping near you, I have used it in the past not never had much luck with it but it would most likely work better in the craziness that is Quartzsite.

This morning we are headed to the LTVA at La Possa south for one more dump and refill on our 14 day pass, the forty dollar pass allowed us three dumps and refills as well as garbage. So we have the generator running as we are doing a load of laundry, we had enough water and grey tank space so might as well take advantage.

We are being pushed a little because we have an appointment shortly after noon to have a couple of windows repaired, the side windows of the coach are dual pane thermo windows…but what happens over time they leak and get moisture in between the glass. This is caused in part by the elevation changes that the coach experiences as we move across the country, this fogging impairs the view, which is annoying, but when it impairs the drivers view it gets to be a safety concern. So there are a number of companies offering a service to correct this, the issue is that if they have been fogged for a number of years the glass gets etched, so even after they are cleaned and resealed the vision is reduced. In a home the glass would be replaced…simple right, the problem with the coach the glass is tempered so if in an accident it will just crystallize the same as the side window on your car, but the tempered glass can not be cut, so the glass would have to be cut and sent to be tempered, but a lot of the guys out here in the desert are replacing it with regular glass that would shatter into shards which could cut someone badly if broken.

The other option is to have them made of laminated glass, while expensive, it can be cut to measure, and like your car windshield does not crystallize or break into shards. It will never become fogged again, therefore never reduce our vision, so they are removing our windows today, they will cover the opening with plastic, and return them in a couple of days, a major undertaking and a major expense but a necessary one.

We have repositioned the coach to get a better solar harvest, we can stay here for another week on BLM at Roadrunner, then we will have to move on, we will either go to LTVA or another BLM, it will depend on what Miss Laurie can plan, as our next reservation in not till the middle of February in Nevada. While we can stay on BLM sites for free this time of year internet is nonexistent and cellular service is very limited, I have had multiple days that we have been unable to post our blog or even receive email or texts, so all is well in our world, but there have been rather large gaps in our connectivity.