NOV 18, Wednesday Borrego
Springs
I
had a horrible dream early this morning; I was running down a street and a Bob
Cat appeared out of nowhere and started chasing me and eventually jumped on my
back. Needless to say I was trying to
wave it and kick it off but it turned that Val was the recipient of those
violent moves. She woke me up and
everything went back to normal! WHAT A
DREAM!!!!
Anyway,
we left at 9:15 am for our Borrego tour. We went down 111 to Monterey/Hwy74 and headed
up the mountain. First we stopped at the
“Welcome Sign” and got a cache then went up the mountain. Man was that ever tortuous but absolutely
breath-taking. We eventually reached the
top at 5000 feet and the scenery changed from rocky grounds to low pines and
shrubs and cactus. We reached Anza
Village where we got another cache and turned on Hwy 371. Here it became flat and high desert country
but with lots of horse ranches. We
eventually came down onto Hwy 79 and turned left after picking up another
cache. This became rolling hills and at
one point, we took the wrong turn and climbed to 4000 ft. where we got some
beautiful vista. We got to an Indian
gate and were told that we were on the wrong road and had to go back! DARN!!!
Back on 79, we finally found our turn to Borrego itself, Hwy 74. We slowly climbed and eventually the Valley
opened up to us and we got our first glimpse of Borrego Valley and the second
look at Salton Sea. The descend was just
as exciting as the climb out of Palm Desert.
Into Borrego Spring we drove; what a neat town, we will have to come
back some time soon. We followed the
highway to 86 where we gassed up and continued home. We arrived back around 5 pm to find we had
two new neighbours, one from BC.
CHECK
OUT THE PICTURES ON OUR PICASA LINK ON OUR BLOG!
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NOV 19, THUSRSDAY; Last
day in Indio
Val
went for her swimming classes and I drove to the RV Store to see if my light
covers were in. No luck! Came home and took everything out of the
jeep and proceeded to wash and clean it inside and out. Then I loaded everything back in, loaded the
biked and the kayaks, tied everything down then I out everything that was out
back in the basement of the Beaver and finally…had to beer or two to admire my
work! We had a quiet HH then dinner then
watched the last episode of “the BLACK LIST”.
A busy day but we are ready to go!
NOV 20, FRIDAY; Onward to
Yuma, AZ
Sunny
and hot it was today! 84*F (27*C) We left at 9:15 am and arrived in Winterhaven
@ 12:45pm (1:45 pm local time). We took
86 south to 78 then east and again south on 111 to I-8. A westerly direction on I-8 took us to PILOT
KNOB Resort (I call it the dust Bowl) in Winterhaven! We registered and paid $42 for the electricity
for 2 weeks and no other cost as we are here under R.O.D., one of our
membership. We set up in SITE 121 and
Val called the dentist in Algodones and we have an appointment for tomorrow at
10 am. There were hamburgers for dinner
at the club house so we went for that.
Val stayed behind to do some puzzles and I came home to work on the
blog.
We travelled 138 miles in
2 hrs and 40 minutes @ an average 52MPH and stopped for 15 minutes to get
coffee.
N 32* 44.694’
W 114* 45.843’
Alt: 251 feet
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