7:28 and the sunrise is beautiful this morning, at 45 or 7 degrees, it has the makings of another sunny day in the Arizona desert, the forecast high is 21 or 70 degrees with a light breeze at 3 miles per hour, the forecast also is for some high cloud that will effect our solar harvest negatively, it does make for great sunrises and sunsets.

Today is Friday and we need to move Thunder by Sunday, we are nearing or fourteen days stay limit here at Roadrunner BLM camping area, this is an area that was new to us, but certainly one that we will visit again, as we become more familiar with the options available. You must keep in mind that two years ago when we were here we were green as grass about the whole BLM (Bureau of Land Management) thing, in fact we were pretty green about a lot of everything as we were only a few months into the full time RV living life style.

We have become so much more comfortable with this life style, we and when I say “we” I really mean me have become much better at socializing with new aqaintenances, after so many years of being defensive from years of complaints in the service industry, which just makes you quiet cynical over time. But we have met so many amazing people over the last two years, it has been so been so great, the only down side is that now we have to try to spend time with people all over the continent, it certainly effects our travels and routes. And as we look toward the spring, we look forward to returning to all our new friends at LHR (Lake Huron Resort), as we are schedule to report for work April 20th, less than three months from now.

Thursday morning, and nothing but sunshine in the forecast, I started the generator for a couple of hours to help get our batteries to 100%, and by noon the solar controllers had switched to float mode…batteries officially fully charged. Now I was able to recalibrate the battery monitor with the inverter, so now we again have an accurate source for the battery bank condition. Our objective is to get to a stage that the solar harvest will replenish our daily power usage.

There was another group of the rally people that headed out today, we are down to about a dozen coaches, our new friends Ronda and Pat are heading out in the morning, they are off to Tucson to visit with family, before heading back to Wyoming to their sticks and bricks. They have a 1998 Beaver Patriot as well, it was a new to them in the fall so we were able to help answer some questions about the coach, I think we all learnt some new things about our coaches. It sounds like we will be trying to make it back to this rally again next year, we have enjoyed this area, we are far enough from the highway that we get no road noise, and most of the group seem to be respectful of the generator noise, and even when the generators are running, they are quite quiet by design.

Tomorrow we will head to the LTVA to look for a spot for the next fourteen days, the crowds are about at there highest the last two weeks of January, so hopefully there will be some spots at La Possa West so that we can walk to the rock show, and the tented city that pops up every January in Quartzsite and we know how much Miss Laurie likes rocks…just saying. We may end up at La Possa South as it is a lot larger and more inviting for large coaches and it’s only a mile from the big tent and parking will be easier next week.