About Me

Lee Creek, North Shuswap near Chase, B.C, Canada
We went full-time Rving in October of 2005! We retired from full time to part-time as of the end of 2015. Our present "small but comfortable" Wagon is a 2008 Camper trailer(TravelAir Rustler), pulled by a 2008 Dodge Dakota, 4X4.l. Our home is now a Gated Community Park, in Oliver, British-Columbia, Canada. I retired in 2005 and my Life Companion, Valerie, retired October 1, 2006 from nursing. We invite you to follow and share our new adventures and mishaps. Life is but an adventure full of dreams yet to be fulfilled!

Friday, November 08, 2013

November 4 to 7, 2013; Winterhaven, Yuma, Algodones

NOV  4, Monday, Winterhaven
Val was out by 7:30 this morning doing Tai-Chi with Denis and filming some of the episodes.  It is a cool 54 *F (12*C)!  We basically stuck around the house today waiting for installers.  First Val phone and ordered her rack for the convection oven then she called to make an appointment for the dentist in Algodones, MX.  She did some Tai-Chi with Denis.  By the way, we learned later that they are staying another night and will be leaving tomorrow morning bright and early.  Finally, after waiting around for them, the installers for the new Reverse Osmosis Water System that we ordered Sunday finally arrived and they set it up.  Now we no longer have to worry about fresh pure water.  It took them an hour to set it up.  We bought the portable type so we don’t have to lose it should we trade or sell this rig.  By the way, we only paid $80 for the set up and spare filters, NOT 200 as stated in my previous Blog!  Denis and Sandra came over for a chat for a while...no HH tonight due to the installers.  We had a delicious dinner consisting of sirloin pork roast which Val cooked to perfection in the convection oven (She is getting more sure of herself with it) and sliced baked potatoes with a salad.  After dinner, Denis and Sandra came over to say goodbye, we will miss them, our time together was too short!  We watched another movie given to us by Denis; “Now You See Me”, an action packed movie

 
NOV  5, Tuesday, shopping
The wind really picked up early this morning and woke me up at 5:30 AM.  I got up and put the awning in then at 6:30, I watched the Letendre leave with their friends following about 15 minutes later; they are off to El Golfo in Mexico.  We hope they have a wonderful time.  Hopefully for them, the wind won’t be too much of a factor.  We spent the day relaxing and not much else.  We went for grocery shopping then came home and Val prepared a salad for our gathering at Geoff and Donna.  We arrived at their place, an RV Resort in Yuma, around 4:30 pm.  Also present were Ed & Judy, Jack & Mim, Dennis and Ruth.  We had a fun conversation and a great dinner.  Donna made her famous seafood soup.  Of course the wine flew and I had way too much.  We called it quit around 9 pm and everyone went to their respective home.  It was a great evening

 
NOV  6, Wednesday; To Mexico and satellite dish installed
We were up early, showered, walked Tucker and headed to Algodones, MX, for a dental appointment.  The crossing has changed a lot and there is some construction going on.  We stopped to pick up our “Tourist Cards” and paid 590 Pesos for that.  We also discovered that they are one hour behind us so we are too early for our dentist but we walked over anyway and she took us in right away.  We had a coffee afterwards then came home to wait for our Satellite installer.  I think Tucker is getting used to us leaving home a lot as he hasn’t made any fuss in the last while.

The installer arrived at 1 PM on time, a young man, and had the dish installed in no time.  The set up however was a lengthy process.  He had difficulties finding the right leads to both TV as there are numerous wires and cables in the entertainment cupboard and access is not easy.  He also got very frustrated with the DISH people and finally gave up and asked his boss to do it.  Bill, the owner, came out around 5 pm but by that time, I had decided to give it a try and almost had the account all set up with them when Bill came in.  He checked a few things and said that he would sent the kid back tomorrow to find a better lead to the bedroom TV as it is fuzzy and he will hook up the system to our surround sound. So this evening, we watched TV for the first time since leaving home!!!!

 
NOV  7, Thursday, Back to Mexico
Val had an appointment again today with the dentist.  We drove back to Algodones and were there for three hours!!!  We got home in time to meet the Satellite Tech, at 3 pm.  He fixed everything and we watched the tube for a while then, after dinner, we watched the second “Star Trek” recoded by Denis.

1 comment:

The Bright's said...

We're thinking it may be time for another trip over the border to the dentist on our way back from Florida. Sure cant afford a visit to the dentist in the States.