Potosi Pines Camp, Blue Diamond, Nevada

     After almost 6 months, I left Mesa.  I had such a great time it was difficult to leave.  It was an enjoyable season, full of good times with activities, visits with family and friends, and getting to know new friends.
     I headed to Mt. Potosi, which is just west of Las Vegas.  The church camp there is in a beautiful mountain setting.  I spent a week helping with a variety of maintenance jobs.  The first job was staining and assembling 6 adirondack chairs.  They now sit on the porch of the lodge.  Other jobs included helping to clean out old maintenance shed and hauling the stuff to the new shed, moving decorative bricks from  storage to where they will be placed, and preparing outer walls of a restroom so that a work crew could begin painting.
     While there I was able to do some hiking on their trails, which proved to be a challenge at a beginning elevation of 5800.  The trails were steep, but provided a wonderful view of the area.
     Next I will be going east to the Kansas City area to spend time with family before the next project.
 

January in Mesa

Should've posted something sooner.  Hope all have a Happy New Year.  I am still at Towerpoint RV Resort in Mesa, AZ.  This is a picture of a Cholla cactus with the full moon in the center.  I took it during a moonlight walk at Usery Park.
I have been keeping busy with activities and 'working' in the resort.  I put in 12 hours and get 1/2 off my monthly rent.  sweet.
Also have enjoyed many of the area sights.  One was a tour of the Olive Mill.  Fun thing was...while waiting for the tour to begin along comes an old friend from Port Allegany.  She was the librarian at the elementary school where I worked for 15 years.  She and her husband were visiting in the area and happened to come to take the tour at the same time.   small world.
We had a cold snap here and had record cool high temps.  It lasted about a week and now we are back in the 70's.  :)
Stay warm.

And then there were Three.

     Here's the new RV, my third in four years.  It is a Sunseeker...I guess, so am I.   After 2577 miles, many hundreds of dollars in gas, and nights at truck stops,  I am now in sunny Arizona.  It took 6 days for me to drive that distance, but one extra day to sit out the tail edge of Hurricane Sandy.  I made it out of the East quick enough, but stayed a day in Indiana while the windy edge passed.  I had good travel days after that.  The 'gas cap' light and 'check engine' light came on a couple of times.  I stopped and had a Ford dealer check it out and turn off the lights.  Their computer said that it was the gas cap and some goop was put on to create a seal, but the light came on again.  So I still need to get that checked.
    After 2 time zones and changing the clocks back, I'm pretty sure I'm younger.  At least it feels like it.  The stiff joints aren't feeling badly and the sunshine just makes one happier.   I am getting things organized in here, and getting into routine at Towerpoint RV Resort in Mesa.  Because I waited for the RV to arrive and the days ticked by, I didn't do any volunteering or visiting along the way.  I wanted to beat any possibility of snow.   I hope to do some volunteer work while here in this area.

     Happy Thanksgiving
 

   

Finally

I decided the Georgetown was too big for me and it had some issues.  So I ordered a new RV, a Forest River Sunseeker.  I had hoped it would arrive sooner than it did, but finally I took possession of it on Friday October 26.  I hastily loaded it and got on the road two days later.  I tried to get ahead of Hurricane Sandy.  I did end up in some wind, but certainly not anything like what was in the East.  I had an engine light come on that first day, but after having someone check it with the computer, found that it was nothing to worry about.  The stop did delay the traveling west a little.
In all the haste to get away I did not take a picture of it.  So that will come later.
I am headed to Arizona the long way.  I want to avoid November snows.  So not only is the RV a Sunseeker, so am I.

Pennsylvania

After spending some time with family and friends, I am now headed for Pennsylvania.  Hope to visit with more family and friends during the summer.  Hope everyone is finding a way to stay cool.  Plenty of hot going around all during the trip.
There's been some problems with the RV.  Hopefully they will get that fixed at the place of purchase.  I am thinking of trading George in....yep, that's right.   I like a lot about it, but there's lots I don't like.  So, I'm window shopping again.  We'll see if just what I want exists.

At the place of my address

I have to admit, it was a pleasure to leave Washington.  I had enough rain and cold.  The rest of the country actually seems to be having summer.
and now....
I'm 'home'!!!!  I am in Box Elder, SD.    There is a small campground now at my address where I am staying a few days to tour the area.   Sturgis, Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Badlands, Custer State Park, Wall Drug, and Black Hills....gold.  Lots to do in little time.

Pe Ell, Washington

I have been at a NOMADS project here for 2 weeks.   There are 5 members to the team.  We are working at this church, which was an old school building.  The town of Pe Ell is very small and rural.  Most of this very small congregation are elderly.  They are unable to do the major repairs themselves.  So we have been there, repairing water damaged ceiling, built a wall where there was an archway, scraped and painted the outside windows, cleaned the kitchen, and worked on landscaping.  One more week then I'll be heading east.