3/12/2017 - 3/18/2017 Welcome to Mesa, Arizona

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Tim and Linda Bunyan

TIME is the currency with just a few hours spent in the chaise recliner, we are departing Emerald Cove RV Park to: MESA, Arizona to "Stan's Place": Mesa Regal RV Resort.

Through Quartsite and on I-10 for 100 miles to Phoenix.  Bob Wills and the Playboys singing on the radio: "Bubbles in my Beer" and 1983 Kenny Rogers and Dolly (now 71 years young) remain: "Island in the Stream".  We find comfort in friends joining us on our RV 2017 Tour; not so alone and others enjoy it.  Mike greets us at the entrance to guide us to our site for the week in Stan's playland.

Welcome to MESA Regal Resort, ARIZONA road signs: 

"AR does not Spring Forward; We Buckle UP"!  

We are glad to be vagabonds and nomadic as we go from place to place without a home or a job.  "Backroads" by Little Feat, plays on the radio.  Stan's playground is open to us as we converge for a fun week of events Stan (and Mike & Sherry) have planned for us.  Stan has turned to be quite a "cruise captain" .......same week as his boat, back home in Sacramento, has sold.

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!