POST #22-07 

  ...We travel deeper into the AZ Outback!

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On Monday, January First, we left our December home at Morenga Palms RV Park, and drove a short 37 miles deeper into the AZ Outback and returned to one of our favorite camping spots, Alamo Lake State Park.   A You-Tube Video of the drive to Alamo Lake State Park can be watched HERE. 

We were able to get our favorite spot in the B Loop....

Site B-13, at the very end of the loop....

 

And this is the view out of our back window, with Artillery Peak in the right of the photo.  The Artillery Peak Area contains large deposits of manganese as well as gold and uranium.  Artillery Peak is the "Plug"  of an ancient, extinct shield volcano...

We were able to see and get video of a lot of wildlife there...Burros, Raccoons, Kangaroo Rats, Roadrunners and Coyotes.  See the Wildlife Video HERE. One of the coyotes was in terrible shape, starving and mangey.

And we met a friendly Roadrunner....

And got it to eat from our hand!

He had fun looking at himself in the phone screen on the "selfie" setting!

A You-Tube Video of some of the wildlife can be watched HERE. When you watch it turn up the volume and you can hear him crunching up the dried mealworms!

Alamo Lake is so remote that Cell Service, and therefore Internet is very poor.  When we first tried it we were able to get about .5 megabytes per second up and down on the Verizon Hotspot.  So we put up the directional antenna connected to our WeBoost cell phone booster...

After raising it up as far as possible and some aiming of the directional antenna, we were able to get 23 Megabytes per second down, but only 1.5 MBPS up.  That means we could watch any video we wanted but uploading video was extremely slow!

The weather at Alamo Lake was perfect!  Sunny, light winds and temps in the low 70's.  The nights were clear with no moon, so the stargazing was unbelievable!  There is NO light pollution and the Milky Way was incredible!

It was way colder at night, dipping into the low 30's so we didn't stay out very long!

We were at Alamo Lake for 9 days...not long enough!

Next stop is Lake Pleasant Regional Park, about 114 miles east, near Phoenix...Watch for an update from Lake Pleasant!

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POST #22-06 

 Happy New Year

 ...From our December home and into the AZ Outback!

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Today is New Years Eve!  We just had a toast to the New Year around the bonfire with all of our new friends here at Morenga Palms RV Park.

It's been a cool, rainy and windy week here, but the sky cleared and the wind stopped so we could have a fun evening around the fire!

So many wonderful folks...too many to name here!  We will be back to spend some time with them again!

Near the RV Park here is an area where Burrowing Owls are being re-located to after being displaced by the booming development in the Phoenix area.  The rescue group builds man-made burrows for them, with a little perch outside of the opening so the birds can look for prey... 

We walked about a half mile over to the area to look for some...There's one!

The rescue organization brings frozen mice over here to the RV Park and the folks staying here go out and give the mice to the owls for food until they get used to living in this area and disperse to more natural homes in abandoned burrows of other animals.  The program has been a great success over the past few years...most of the owls have moved on!  Now they will bringing a new group of owls out in the next month or so to repeat the process!  

It was a fun hike to see one...they're cute little guys!  Barbi is cute too!  

Tomorrow, January 1st, 2022 we will be leaving Morenga Palms and moving a short 37 miles north to Alamo Lake State Park

The weather is forecast to be clear with no wind and a warming trend to near 70 while we are there!  Watch for an update from Alamo Lake State Park!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!  

LIVE LONG AND PROSPER! 

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POST #22-05 

 Merry Christmas!  A Month Long Stay!

 ...We move to our December home for the whole month...

Longest we have stayed anywhere during our wanderings!

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On Wednesday, December 1st we left our wonderful spot a Buckskin Mountain State Park, AZ and continued south...

Our destination was Wenden, Arizona...A distance of about 75 miles. Our destination is Morenga Palms RV Park...

A six minute video of portions of that drive and the park can be seen in our You Tube video HERE.  The owners and guests are super nice and welcoming!  A lot of the guests here are from Montana…Billings, Thompson Falls, Livingston, Gardiner and more.  Everyone here at the park gathers around the fire pit at dusk for fun, food and drink...

On Friday, December 3rd, we made a quick trip to Wickenburg, AZ...

To meet up for lunch with some friends we met last year at Lost Dutchman State Park, near Apache Junction, AZ.  We dined at the Onery Hog BBQ with our friends Jason And Misty...

We had a great lunch of some of the finest ribs, brisket and pulled you will find anywhere!  I call Jason and Misty "The Fun Squad" because of all the fun things they are doing!  Thanx to both of you for your service!

Back at Morenga Palms we have been hanging out with friends here both old and new. Most folks put up Christmas decorations around their camp…this was us! 

The RV parks here compete with each other for the best decorated park in the valley...

Some of the folks went out in the desert and picked up expired Century Plants (a type of Agave) and put lights on them...

And decorated their Side by Sides...

We won this year...Again!....  Inside we had our Christmas Tree!   

On December 23rd, the night of the judging we had a great group around the roaring bonfire, 

The owners of the park, Rob and Kim, served delicious snacks and egg-nog!  It was a warm evening in the 60s and no wind!

It’s been quite chilly in the morning…low 30s most days (lowest has been 26), but warms up nicely later on.  Great mornings to sleep in and cuddle!  

We will be here at Morenga Palms until the January 1st, when we move on to one of our favorites, Alamo Lake State Park, AZ... 

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!

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POST #22-04 

 Heading South To An Unknown Destination!

 ...We cross into California on our way to...Well...We don't have any reservations so we'll see where we end up!

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On Saturday, November 27th, we left our site at Davis Camp Park near Bullhead City, AZ and Laughlin, NV.  

Got a late start, left our campsite at Davis Park Camp at about 10:20 AM! Sunny but still a bit breezy.  Hear tell this is a windy place this time of year!  The Saturday crowd started to show up as we were leaving...

We continued south passing through Bullhead City and Fort Mohave, AZ before venturing into California at Needles, CA.  We read that on August 13, 2012, Needles experienced a thunderstorm that dropped rain at a temperature of 115 degrees F that set a record for the hottest rain ever recorded on earth.  The air temperature at the time was 118!  We prefer NOT to go into California.  It feels really uncomfortable to us... We saw this gas sign in needles as we were passing through...WOW!

We were only in California for 14 miles and didn't stop.  The roads were bad and the area along the highway was quite trashy.  Once we crossed the Colorado River back into AZ the roads and the general feel of the area was better.  We continued on I-40 eastbound and turned south on Highway 95 towards Lake Havasu City and points south looking to stay in one of the Arizona State Parks on the Colorado River...

We had no reservations, but stopped first at Cattail Cove State Park.  Beautiful place!

They made a wonderful white sand beach there!...

But the campground was  full!  so we moved on down the river to River Island State Park, another nice park with a nice beach!  

But once again the campsites were all full!  So on down the river we go to Buckskin Mountain State Park...

They had a dry-camping site we were able to stay in until a water and electric site opened the next day...

Nice!

We spent four days here, relaxing, riding the electric bikes while towing Bill and Ted in their trailer, and riding the bikes further down the river to a floating bar where we had an ice cold beer!

We were at Buckskin until December first, when we will head to our monthlong stay at Morenga Palms RV Park near Wenden, AZ. 

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