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May. 22nd, 2006 06:08 pmI'm back from my helping my sister drive her RV back to Calif. from Mexico. Holy cow, is it great to be home, only, now I remember how nice it is to be away from my house, not reminded daily of the various house and yard projects I haven't done yet.
Things I wanted to write down as we drove our ~3,000 miles:
108 in Palm Springs is seriously way too hot. It was ghastly. We were so glad to leave! I took sis out to Roy's for dinner, and the cab to/from cost more than the dinner. Should've rented a car, but the guy quoted us an estimate that turned out to be way too low. That is the downside of an RV; you aren't very mobile, really.
We were in Yuma 3 days before W. The border patrol was going nuts with night-time helicopters, looking for illegal immigrants along the Colorado River, where we camped. We had been driving 12 hours at that point, including 2 hours trying to find the entrance to the RV park on the river *right* at the CA/AZ border. We could see it, but "you can't get there from here," and had moved through hysterical laughter into misery by then, although my sister thought the 'copter was an alien spaceship at first, which was good for a laugh.
There's a kind of cactus in the Saguaro Nat'l Forest that I think is chollo cactus, I'll look it up some other time. In the morning light, it looks kind of like lots of folk art dolls, with large heads and skinny bodies. It was fun to watch.
Birds in Mexico to research later while visiting wildlife biogolist/birder friends: loved the black birds and have to find out what the kind with a split tail are. They can make their tail horizontal like all the other birds, or fold them in half and make them into a vertical rudder. LOVED them. I'm pretty sure I saw two Mexican eagles. There were blue and yellow birds between Mazatalan and Nogales.
Look up the purple jellyfish.
We lucked into the Paso Robles Wine Festival and had a good time there. The RV park was filled with properous, attractive couples and their dogs in extremely expensive RVs who mostly seemed to have conservative politics once engaged in conversation. Boy, were we the liberal hippies in the place! Had to skip staying over in Carmel, but we had lunch at a *fabulous* place that I highly recommend called Casanova. Apparently, their prix fixe dinner is also wonderful.
I am so glad to be home. Though not so glad to be at work. I shouldn't be here, I should be tackling some more work, that kind of thing. I forgot that I volunteered to staff a workshop so I'm heading off on a overnight business trip in 2 days, too. What was I thinking!!??
Oh, and happy birthday to me! Whee! One year older!
Things I wanted to write down as we drove our ~3,000 miles:
108 in Palm Springs is seriously way too hot. It was ghastly. We were so glad to leave! I took sis out to Roy's for dinner, and the cab to/from cost more than the dinner. Should've rented a car, but the guy quoted us an estimate that turned out to be way too low. That is the downside of an RV; you aren't very mobile, really.
We were in Yuma 3 days before W. The border patrol was going nuts with night-time helicopters, looking for illegal immigrants along the Colorado River, where we camped. We had been driving 12 hours at that point, including 2 hours trying to find the entrance to the RV park on the river *right* at the CA/AZ border. We could see it, but "you can't get there from here," and had moved through hysterical laughter into misery by then, although my sister thought the 'copter was an alien spaceship at first, which was good for a laugh.
There's a kind of cactus in the Saguaro Nat'l Forest that I think is chollo cactus, I'll look it up some other time. In the morning light, it looks kind of like lots of folk art dolls, with large heads and skinny bodies. It was fun to watch.
Birds in Mexico to research later while visiting wildlife biogolist/birder friends: loved the black birds and have to find out what the kind with a split tail are. They can make their tail horizontal like all the other birds, or fold them in half and make them into a vertical rudder. LOVED them. I'm pretty sure I saw two Mexican eagles. There were blue and yellow birds between Mazatalan and Nogales.
Look up the purple jellyfish.
We lucked into the Paso Robles Wine Festival and had a good time there. The RV park was filled with properous, attractive couples and their dogs in extremely expensive RVs who mostly seemed to have conservative politics once engaged in conversation. Boy, were we the liberal hippies in the place! Had to skip staying over in Carmel, but we had lunch at a *fabulous* place that I highly recommend called Casanova. Apparently, their prix fixe dinner is also wonderful.
I am so glad to be home. Though not so glad to be at work. I shouldn't be here, I should be tackling some more work, that kind of thing. I forgot that I volunteered to staff a workshop so I'm heading off on a overnight business trip in 2 days, too. What was I thinking!!??
Oh, and happy birthday to me! Whee! One year older!