I think we gotta just keep tellin' ourselves... that's the massuh, talkin'... WE, are the Masters of our lil' kingdom now... not the Bossman... just slap his butt and send him along... His power is broken now... right? :o)
So... we laid about quite a bit yesterday... Took a mid morning walk... and you'd think, considerin' all the rigs within a stones throw that the desert would be kinda crowded, wouldn't you? ... uh uh... Never even saw one of the ATV's... though their tracks were evident... but for walkers, I didn't see hide or hair... and not much more than a track or two...
Apparently, the biggest part of these folks don't get out of eye sight of their rigs... which is OK by me... leaves the open country more open... for the likes of me!
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| *Mountain View from near Plamosa Road area* |
Me... I get lost in the dang malls... lost and turned around in TOWN... but out here?... I head out... come back and I'm never more than a hundred yards or so off target... yup... genuine Dan'l Boone! :o)
One lil' bit of Housekeepin'... Mark and Bobbie sent us a shirt a bit ago, to commemorate conquering Imogene pass last July. It came with the instructions that it must be Modeled on site! ... so... here it is!
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| *I survived Imogene Pass T-shirt... with the guy and truck that survived* |
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| *Mark, Heidi and the truck on Imogene... I.. .was taking the pic!* |
So... that was a long way from Quartzsite and better than 16,000 miles ago! Whew!
We did take a lil' toot yesterday, on the Raider... maybe 20 miles give or take... down through the La Posa area...
Lots of room down there... but to be honest... I kind of like it here better... to each his own I suppose...
Late in the day we got a lil' entertainment from some zoomies... some folks round-a-bout here are haulin' some of those motorized parachutes...
...and come skimmin' over the desert, just before sunset... looks like fun... except for maybe that occasional lil' gust of desert wind... I'll bet that makes for a liver quiverin' few seconds... when they slide in this low...
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| *The Quarzsite Airforce* |
To grill up our chicken, turn some more mesquite to ashes... and watch the stars come out in the cloudless sky...
... before we got chased inside by the cold... when the thermometer dipped below fifty with the advancing evening... :o) sorry Mark... just couldn't help myself...
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| *Desert Flyers fading off into the Sunset* |
NOT! :o)
I don't think so! Ha hahahahahahaha I'm here and you ain't! :o) just turn up the furnace folks... or point your Radiator south! Ya'll can't blame it on me!!! :o)
Gloating on the Desert
Cruel, Cruel, Brian
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3 comments:
Tap... Tap... Just remember, not all of your readers are shoveling snow this winter. I don't even have to worry about chilly evenings for the most part. However, I do envy the freedom to just get up and go.
Well I will say one thing, that desert has really helped you mellow out. Your thought process seems to be slowing down to "relaxing" mode. That fella Murphy isn't gonna find you way out yonder. How long are you and Heidi gonna stay out there, and where are you planning to go next? Could you tell me something about your solar panels?? Know nothing about them so anything you tell me will be info I don't know. What are you running off of them?
Shadow; well... our Freedom is hindered a lil' bit by the fuel tank :o) ... but it don't cost much at all to roll the Raider... so a pretty good balance! :o)
Sharlotte; The Solar panels keep the battery bank juiced up (mostly) and then the furnace and lights run directly off the 12 volt...
I put in a 2000 watt inverter that makes 110V to run the microwave, my computer, her hair dryer, TV, the coffee maker (some would say use a reg. percolator on the propane stove!) and charge up all the camera batteries...
I also put in a small 400 watt inverter... for when all I want is to power the computer... and charge the lil' stuff... it's more efficient and uses less power itself, than the big inverter...
I had to use the generator yesterday for the first time here... to top off the battery bank... our batteries are in their last year I think (4+ years old) and aren't working quite as well as they were... along with I never got the complete array of panels installed... so, for less than half the full planned array, they work pretty darn well.
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