3/3/2017 - 3/11/2017 Emerald Cove @ Parker, AZ

 Emerald Cove RV Resort at Parker and Lake Havasu, Arizona.

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Tim and Linda Bunyan

We have reached our home away from home at our Club Member RV Camp located at Emerald Cove RV Resort at Parker and Lake Havasu, Arizona.  This week-long respite is a nice dose of retirement as our RV Club Membership pays for our 8-day stay and dinners are served at the clubhouse.  I enjoy daily water aquatic classes, and Tim found leisure in putting on new tires on our bikes.  Our dear friends JIM AND LINDA DRINKARD joined us and we traveled around in their Sidekick, Suzuki to nearby stores, bars, marina's, and the house where Linda spent some of her young adulthood.

Lake Havasu is as a mirage in this desert.  The Colorado River has gifted this lake to the locals.  A delightful town has grown up around it with boating, kayaking, and swimming.  Jim and Linda Drinkard have met up with us on the road.  We celebrated by enjoying a 5-crafted beer tasting and survived walking across the London Bridge.  This 1831 bridge is gifted from the Scottish McCulloch family.




  MIKE AND SHERRY have joined up with us in some "State of Mind", so we took their brand new, shiny truck to the quirky, rustic
Desert Bar (built on the site of a former mining camp.)  Upon departure, Mike went straight to the car wash!!!  

3/1/2017 - 3/2/2017 Rancho Mirage @ Mike and Paul Rancho Mirage

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Tim and Linda Bunyan

Departing Aguanga, CA 92536  (San Diego area to: Palm Springs/Rancho Mirage)

March 1, 2017, To Rancho Mirage for an overnight visit with brother Mike and Paul .....a great destination for: Sunnylands.  

Nothing like I-10 heading East for a change of state of mind.  This place has a way of making the sunshine and palm trees sway of another place to 'carve-out' as your own.

Woodstock, the kitty cat, is carving out a place of his own, sipping a water drink from the patio pool!

Here is Mike carving out his place at Rancho Mirage near Bob Hope Drive. 

My brother, Mike, making cinnamon rolls just like mom's.  YUMMY!!

The men direct the direction on our walk.

A walk near the neighborhood where we discover an adobe fence and house in Rancho Mirage.

Mike and Paul have prepared the Coco's Condo for cousin Sharon to take up residence from Boston.

Paul has just returned from Bellingham, WA 
to post the Sale Sign there as they begin the build of their ocean view house for
 their next home. 

We walked around the park with Mike and Paul; Sofie (the puppy dog) stayed relaxed pool-side at home.








Life is moving and changing quickly so we march onward through the desert.  We drive as under the direction of the memorial statue of General Patton. 
17 miles to the east of Palm Springs he trained his men to live and fight in the desert at Camp Young (1942-1943) in the stark, hot conditions to test and develop tactical methods to fight in the North African campaign.  OK, we can do this as we head East from CA to Arizona!

2/25/2017 - 2/26/2017 Patterson, CA @ Flying J and Lebec-Rest Area and JoJoba Hills RV Resort

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Tim and Linda Bunyan

Being with Those You Love MARCH 2017
Tim has said goodbye to those office 'antlers', et al, at Unger Office with the theme song: "On The Road Again" playing in the background to his sendoff ceremony.  We are bringing a whole new level of interest to our outdoors and living in the structure of aluminum.

 See you later Family!

This is departure day from Sacramento Shade, our home for the past several months which we chose as the best RV Park on Auburn Blvd.  Heading out in CasaRoll, our 30' Travel Trailer, from CubeSmart Storage (lending itself useful with a goods exchange) we place the bikes on the back platform of the RV.  The platform is manufactured only by Tim and is winning enough to be pitched on the tv show: "Shark-Tank".

Our daughter, Angela, played a 'blast off' role in securing the perfect course of cell and hotspot ability for those full-timers that still require to be in charge of their own destiny.  So we are now on the road after many dreams, plans, friendships, and strong family support to fill this Blog with content.

WE FOLLOW OUR BLISS south on Highway 5 with Vince Gill's gospel, country steel guitar serenading:  "If you want to see how love should be just look at us.....we are making our history!"

Along CA Highway 5 the Ag country paves the corridor on this yellow brick road which will lead us to the Wizard of San Diego, CA for our visit with Janice Sharples, a long-time friend and family of a professional baseball player, Phil Nevin, for the SD Padres and now is NY Yankees 3rd base, Manager.

We nestled in our FIRST night off-grid next to the Amazon Fulfillment Center, ironically across the expansive parking lot.  Visually WOW-ing us even more than their online services: the Amazon Fulfillment Center continues for 1/4 mile with rows of warehouse buildings.  2M square feet filled with satisfying items!

The Flying J becomes another best friend as we are welcomed members with enticing fuel discounts.  The diesel truckers are corralled for a restful night as if the Pony Express remained on-going.  All this industry we are leaving to many miles of road surrounded by almond trees........nature made by mankind abounds!

300 miles South of Sacramento on Hwy 5 is Lebec, CA:  Almond orchards serve as nature's fence here along Hwy 5.   There are 6,800 CA almond growers that promise $13 Billion annually to the CA economy.  The canal lift station serves water to those nuts and others in dire need in South CA.  
This second day of travel on the road takes us through 4000' elevation at Tejon Pass to the fog of the Los Padres National Forest.  Marooned in fog, we walked to breakfast near Castaic City, CA: a pioneer oil town. 
We passed by Hungry Valley SVRA thinking of the fun our friends: Rob and Sandy and Steve and Rita experience on their 4-wheel drive razor machines.  Hungry Valley is the third largest unit of CA St Park Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Divisions.   A moment of what the world once was.  We ended our day near Temecula at the beautiful "people of the sunny slopes" located at
JoJoba Hills RV Community: an SKP Resort, non-profit, active 55+ cooperative.  Membership in the co-op entitles the member use of a specific site. Escapees hideaway which I thought we need never leave.