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Excited About “Q”

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Quartzite, Arizona. A small town in the Arizona Desert known as the RV Mecca. Population 3357 except in January and February when they get about a million and a half visitors. This year that number will include the Vanstones. In about a week we will be off there with a million other folks and park in the desert for a week or two. We are told we will have a blast, but everytime some one tells us that they raise their eye brows, kind of like there is more to the story. We know we will particpate in seminars, classes, happy hours. We will visit the Rock and Gem Show, the RV Show, the Flea markets and maybe even a Car Show. There we will be, parked with what appears to be about a hundred of our closest friends in an area that’s known this time of year as Boomerville.

They say that if you are an RVer going to Quartzite once is Mandatory. Going twice, however, is Stupid.

Did I mention happy hours? Did I mention that we are excited?

Today we are off to the Ocean for one last look. Next week we prepare for  Quartzite.

The Merc

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Jazz group at the Merc, Temecula, Caifornia

Last night friends Chuck and Anna (more about them later) took us to a Thursday night Jazz Club in Old Town Temecula called The Merc for an evening of “mainline, straight ahead jazz” and we had a great time.

Chuck had asked us a week or so ago if we liked Jazz and we both said “yes”. Really what we meant to say was “we like smooth jazz, you know the pasteurized stuff you put on the radio  with  a nice dinner, but we’ve never really sat down and listened to mainline, straight ahead jazz, the real stuff.

Turns out we were right, we do like jazz. And the merc is a warm and inviting 45 seat venue. The perfect spot for a few  hours of listening to good music and enjoying the odd sip of good wine.

Anna and Chuck

We had been here at Jojoba Hills for a couple of days and were out walking our puppies one morning when we saw a familiar face walking our way. Marilyn caught on first and exclaimed “Anna!”

The immediate response “Marilyn!”.

Turns out that they had been our neighbors for the past two winters at Tres Amigos in Mazatlan. It also turns out that Jojoba Hills is their home park, this is where they live.

We are extremely fortunate; we have been travelling around enough now that it is not at all uncommon for us to run into someone we know. Someone we met on the other side of the continent, somewhere.

As George would say “We live an awsome lifestyle!”

You say To-may-tos, I say tom-at-os. I think he’s pretty close. I would say the correct term is amazing but awsome will do in a pinch.

 

Good Friends

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Dale and Sheila Ducarme
This morning we said Adios Amigos to fellow full timers, friends and relatives Dale and Sheila Ducarme. Sheila is the good looking one on the right. Dale is actually Marilyn’s cousin.

They are wintering in Yuma and came our way for a visit for a couple of days. The friendship goes back a lot of years but really blossomed 4 or 5 years ago when they too began to RV.

Since then we have hooked up for  great times in Progresso and Play Del Carmen Mexico, Edinburg Texas, Florence and Yuma Arizona, Tornoto, Madoc and 50 Point in Ontario. We will probably catch up with them again in Yuma after Boomerville in Quartzite but who knows. Anyway guys, thanks for the great visit. We had a blast.!

We love this RV lifestyle. It gives us the opportunity to connect with people who mean a lot to us all over North America.

Winter like it’s meant to be.

It’s about 10 in the morning here in Aguanga, already mid teens (60′s)and headed for the low 20′s (70′s), Not a cloud in the big, blue sky.

Like the man I passed on a walk this morning said “Winter like it’s meant to be.”

I used to be indecisive. Now I’m not sure.