Thursday, July 25, 2013

Sunny Arizona, Yuma, Casa Grande, Green Valley, Bisbee, Tucson - Week 024-025

Hello from mostly sunny Arizona,

Our intention is to send out a weekly email.  But I guess we were having so much fun that it was last Thursday before we realized that we did not send out last weeks.  "We're sorry, we are not going to apologize, that's just the way we are ".  (Thank you Paul for the quote).

As you might remember from our last email, we met up with our Atascadero neighbors, Ben and Sid, and went shopping with them.  We helped them to pick out a motorhome to replace their 5th wheel.  Funny, they ended up with a Monaco Diplomat, the same MH that we have.

Here are the before and after pictures.




Highway 8 leaving Yuma, AZ.


The road on the way to Casa Grande, AZ.


Palm Creek RV Park in Casa Grande, AZ (recommended)


The sunset in Casa Grande.


Rainbow in Green Valley, where Pete's sister, Donnalee lives in the winter.


We spent two days at the Cowboy Poetry and Music Gathering, in Sierra Vista, AZ. yeehaw!


Pete and Donnalee, BBQing and bonding, in the sunny yet breezy afternoon at the Cowboy PMG.


A rare car on the lonely road to the mountain town of Bisbee, AZ.


Bisbee, where almost all of the houses are built on the hills (like The Hollywood Hills!  Not!!!)


We met up with Ben and Sid again in Tuscon.  Here is Sid explaining why they love their Ralph Lauren Dilpomat.


Downtown Tucson's Unisource Energy Tower. 


Don and Donnalee invited us on a car rally with the Tucson British Car Registry club.  They told us to bring a classic convertible.  Ellen brought the closest thing we had!


A few of the cars in the rally.


Pete's sister Donnalee in Don's Jaguar at the end of the rally.


Oh, we also need to mention that Pete and Ellen visited 12 of the 26 high schools in Tucson, showing off USA GameTracker.  As we continue our marketing we will hopefully gain name recognition as we move sloooooowly on towards Florida.

See you next week!

Love, Pete and Ellen



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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Southern California Sun - Weeks 023-024

A Warm Hello from the South,
For the last two weeks we have been in Southern California and Arizona.  We have been accessing Weather.com each day to determine where to spend our next nights.  After we left the FMCA rally in Indio, we spent a couple of free nights at the Two Springs RV Park in North Palm Springs.  From there we went to Quartzsite Arizona and then on to Yuma.  At each location we met up with friends from previous travels.

We spent a few days with our friend Sheryl at Outdoor Resorts Motorcoach Country Club in Indio.  We first met her there in November.


We returned to Motorcoach Country Club as we were given a half price coupon at the FMCA rally.  It is so beautiful, too bad it costs $300,000 to buy a lot and $4,200 (01-2007) a year for home owner association fees!








Ellen and Sheryl got their exercise out in the sun.


Each winter Quartzsite AZ has an enormous flea market with hundreds, perhaps thousands of booths.  Up to 250,000 RVers visits Quartzsite during the 9-day RV show.


At Quartzsite we reconnected with our friends from Zion Utah, Jerry and Judi.  We met them in Zion, saw them in Atascadero and then again in Quartzsite.  We stayed in Quartzsite two extra days to be with them.


Our next door neighbors have been traveling for a couple of months in their 5th wheel.  Ben and Sid stopped at the Westwind RV Park in Yuma, AZ for a few days.  We met them on Tuesday and ending up staying for eight nights.  We enjoyed the sun, the food, shuffleboard and the spa.  And we spent a few days with them shopping.  On Wednesday, we drove to El Centro, California and back.  In El Centro Pete took the 45 foot motorhome driving test and received his Class B Non-Commercial endorsement.


The nine hole golf course at Westwind RV Park.


Ben, Sid and Ellen


Next week we will stay a few more days as the weather is a little colder in Green Valley AZ, where Pete's sister Donnalee lives.  We will head off to her house soon.

Love, Pete and Ellen
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

January 2006 Indio FMCA Ralley - Week 022

Greetings from Palm Springs,
We spent three weeks at home during Christmas visiting the kids, family and friends.  Since most of you reside there we did not send out weekly updates.  Last week we came down to the Palm Springs area for an FMCA rally.

We had hoped to escape the cold by coming to Palm Springs, however the cold front followed us. 

We spent several days at the FMCA (Family Motor Coach Association) rally in Indio. We met a lot of nice people (many from British Columbia who were escaping their freezing weather), went to many exhibits, and attended a few classes which taught the "ins and outs" of motor homing. There were 1,700 motor homes at the fairground with us. It was very well organized. Our favorite part of the rally was the morning devotions with the other motor homers from all over the world. What a special time that was. 

We spent a couple evenings with our friend, Sheryl, from Outdoor Resorts Motor Coach Country where we first met her in November. That was very fun.
        
      
    



This Dixieland Band of RV'ers lead us in two hours of Gospel Music on Sunday morning.

Next week we will stay in the Palm Springs area until Friday when we go to the Quartzite RV Show.  It has been said that 250,000 people will visit Quartzite in that week.  

Love, Pete and Ellen
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Christmas 2006 - Week 019-021

Merry Christmas

We spent Christmas and New Years at home in Atascadero, with a four day trip to Grass Valley to have the motorhome worked on. It was good to see family and friends.

We spent time with our friends, Judy and Jerry,  from Zion RV Resort, and had a wonderful New Years Eve with them at Janet and Brad Arthur's. We had many  gatherings and reunited with many old friends. 

We went to Tony and Lisa home for Tony's 50th. We were able to see their four sons, grand baby, and two daughters-in-law. The kids get older, yet Tony and Lisa seem to get younger. 

 We were especially delighted to see Jim and Traci Hewitt and most of their clan, whom we hadn't seen in quite a while. (sorry no picture)

Our granddaughter Kalonie, with our daughter Melissa in front of the beautiful tree that Michelle (our son Andy's girlfriend)  brought over and helped me decorate. Thanks Michelle.


Emily with our grandsons, Austin and Levi.                     Melissa with her friend Sarah.
  

Janet's birthday in our house with no furniture.(Kathy, Janet, Paula, Janice, and Sandy)


Ellen having lunch with her 2nd cousin Judy and the sisters - Susie, Carla, Janice, and Donnalee 


Lunching at the Custom House in Avila 


Christmas Eve at Ellen's brother Art's house  (Thanks for all your hard work Kelli)




Tony with some of his family at his 50th birthday party. 


Melissa, cousin Shay, cousin Tera, and Emily


Thanks to everyone that squeezed us into your busy schedule. It was good seeing everyone. 

Love, Pete and Ellen

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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Catatina Island, California - Week 018

Seasons Greetings from Pete and Ellen, 

The highlights of the week: 

We met up with Wally in Huntington Beach. He was down from Atascadero on business. We had a great visit and dinner with him.


We were drawn back to Huntington Beach where the weather and sunsets were beautiful.


We spent one night in Long Beach and were able to meet up with Ellen's cousins, Dan and Janet . Janet had us all over for dinner. It was a wonderful time of catching up over good food. Thanks Janet!


We spent Thursday and Friday nights on Catalina Island with NCCS basketball teams to watch them in a tournament.

Dining in Catalina with friends.
Pete and the Basketball girls team watching the boys play.


 The girls were the champions of the tournament.


On our way home from Long Beach, we stopped and spent the night at the beach in Ventura.


We are looking forward to getting home to family and friends for the holidays.  May God Bless you all with good health, good friends, and wonderful times with family.

 Love, Pete and Ellen 
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