Sunday March 3rd, 2018

Today was a travel day so we headed West through Quartsite. We’ll come back another time and stay a night or two since we passed on this trip for fishing at Alamo. We stopped at “Darlene’s Bakery” for breakfast and spent the rest of the afternoon driving to Desert Hot Springs Springs near Palm Springs. 

We’re staying at Palm Springs/Joshua Tree KOA. It looks nice and clean and not a bad location. After setting up we had no choice but hit Wally’s since we’d been in no man’s land for a week and were low on everything. We’ll sleep good tonight even with the raging windstorm going on around us!

Friday March 2nd, 2018
JP was up early and back at camp by Happy Hour. He  was thrilled with his day at the Lake. The word EPIC came up several times. He caught lots of really nice bass!

My day was reading and writing and catching up on our business stuff. JP drove me to where I can get 3 bars last night and I took screen shots of my bank statements so I could use them to balance my checking accounts. How do I do it?

Thursday, March 1st, 2018
Our plan was to spend the next 2 nights in Quartzsite before we headed to Palm Springs, but JP really needed a couple more days to fish. So we moved to a new camp spot for 2 more days here at Alamo Lake instead.

I hear the burros all through the day and JP and other campers have seen bunches. This morning there was fresh burro pooh right next to the trailer. I’m not sure how I’d feel about opening the trailer door to a burro face – but I’m open to finding out!

JP got a later start on the water since we had to change campsites but the weather is holding and the bass (or crappie) were calling! He had a great day on the water! 

Wednesday February 28th, 2018

Newly armed with a location he can drive to and row less,  He headed out even earlier this morning. JP was the first one to the cleaning station this evening, followed by one another boat but that was it! Catching was tough going today.  Fishing seems to shift from amazing to dead in a heartbeat. JP caught 2 bass and a nice crappie. He said it was delicious!

Tuesday February 27th 2018
JP was up and at ‘em today with a new destination on the lake. I spent the day rearranging in Lucky and eavesdropping on our neighbors (voices carry something fierce here) trying to gather secret tips on the lake for JP. The Park seems to attract as many ATV folks as fisherman and I heard one guy talking about his javelina hunt.

JP has seen coyote, bunnies, bald eagles, gigantic swans, pelicans, and burros. I have heard nothing but non-stop birds! Hundreds of them all talking at once! Day 1 it was kinda “Oh yeah, cool! Disney Jungle background music” but now not so much! It starts about 8:00 with the birds tap dancing on our roof and then the chorus begins -and goes on and on and on! 

JP left early and had covered a lot of water in 2 hours of rowing to the spot he wanted and caught a bass. Not long after that the wind kicked in and all but 1 boat headed back to camp. JP was rowing against the wind so the last boater leaving gave him a lifeline – hooray!

We went scouting before dinner and drove around in a quest for a nearer launch so there’d be less rowin’ and more fishin’. Found it! It’s open and beautiful here with the hills and mountains around us.

Later JP found a friendly neighbor who seemed happy to share all of his fishing tricks for the lake over some Jameson. A good end to the day!

Monday Sept 26, 2018
After we were settled in last night JP drove us way up the road until I could get some cell service. Most of the time we have at least enough bars to text but not so here – so no Wi-Fi. I hate to admit how weird it feels to be “disconnected”!

JP was up early to head out in his pontoon. I was happy to hang at camp and get things settled in Lucky. It’s nothin’ but blue skies and sunshine! Husband came home a happy camper. He caught a couple of bass and had a good day on the water. Our camp spot is near enough to the fish cleaning station that we could hear the fish tales as the guys cleaned their fish. JP has a new direction for tomorrow. He is on it!

Sunday Feb 25th
And we’re are off – with new Lucky in tow. We headed to Alamo Lake but made a pit stop at Wickenburg. Traveling on Sunday means most small town stores are closed. I’m putting it on the list of places I want to go when we pass through AZ again – because Wickenburg looks interesting!

We pulled into our camp-spot at Alamo Lake State Park, which by the way is in the middle of not much but mountain view’s, cactus and apparently wild burrows. It took JP no time to talk up the fisherman and get the skinny on the lake. He’ll be up and at ‘em in the AM.

Friday and Saturday February 23rd and 24th, 2018
We took a break from the details of our trailer replacement and all that went with it and spent our last 2 days with our friends in Surprise.

JP and Randy went out to see some spring training college games, Friday they watched the Beavers beat Ohio and then on Saturday they saw the Beavers beat the Nebraska. 

While the guys were gone, Jean and I treated ourselves to a pedicure. We had plenty of time to go shopping so we hit the Goodwills so I could buy some books and movies for the road. Then she took me on a tour of the Home Store where there are so many rows of throw pillow that making a decision would be nearly impossible. Each color had its own entire row of throw pillows, and there a a lot of colors!

We finished Friday with a meal at Arby’s so she could try my new favorite treat – the salted carmel chocolate chip cookie – served warm. Crazy good. It was a great way to end a stressful and exhausting week!

Thursday, February 22nd 2018

Wow! Buying a trailer is exhausting!
We thought we had most of our business at Camping World taken care of, but alas no – on to the the finance department! After that we were able move all of our stuff from Old Luck to New Lucky. We showed up at our walk through appt. time of 11:00 and drove off the lot at 5:00. Exhausted but relieved we are good to go again.
New Lucky is almost identical in floor-plan. We lost a little storage here and there which is a little challenging and like many things the older version seemed sturdier and old school better in some ways.

But Old Lucky didn’t have an electric tongue jack, LED lighting, electric awning with pretty purple LED lighting, new tires and oh yeah –   a new mattress. It’s also 8” taller, because it has better ground clearance. Not that we have 4 wheelin’ plans in the new trailer!  New Lucky (soon to just be LUCKY again) looks very pretty with  Black Jack, our Silverado.

Old Lucky was left behind for the insurance company to collect. He was a good old boy. I hope he lives on to travel with a new crew someday.

Wednesday Feb 21st , 2018

OK one more day of miscellaneous business about  Old Lucky and New Lucky and we will have it wrapped up. We’ve been so busy with the whole process there hasn’t been much time to look into our next stop in Alamo Lake so today was a good day to do some prep work for that and just cool our jets for a day. We did manage to sneak in a Costco visit – who doesn’t love that? I mean, where else can you get lunch for 2 for 3 bucks?