OH OH….GOT AN EMAIL FROM THE TOWN OF TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, NEW MEXICO TO-DAY!!

IT’S OUR SPIFFY LOOKING BIG GIRL CHECKERS AFTER HER TRIP TO, ‘ON GOLDEN PAWS’ FRIDAY(Click on any of the photos to enlarge them)

Well, I guess I better start off by doing a bit of back tracking here regarding last night's blog on the town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.  Some of you may have noticed I had a couple comments in Fridays blog comment section regarding T or C's name.  First & foremost  it was never called Geronimo Springs but I kinda like that name anyway.  JERRY first brought the mistake to my attention after I mis-read his blog a few days ago & then came a note from Gina Kelly, Director of Tourism for Sierra County New Mexico.  When I first saw that I thought, "holy smokes I'm in some big trouble now for sure."  And that was the second time this morning I had that feeling but I'll get to the other happening later.  First I'll copy the part in Gina Kelly’s email that will officially set the record straight on T or C......................................

ME OLD  HIPPIE BROTHER-IN-LAW…GRINGO NORM:)))	TESTING ONE OF THE MANY HOT WATER TUBS AT RIVER BEND HOT SPRINGS……….
THE RIO GRANDE RIVER RUNS THROUGH TRUTH or CONSEQUENCES	ELEPHANT BUTTE LAKE WITH ELEPHANT BUTTE IN THE CENTER

 

Greetings from Truth or Consequences! Love your blog & your photos of Sierra County but I feel obligated to comment on the name of our community.
It was never named "Geronimo Springs". The Spanish named it "Ojo Caliente de Las Palomas", which morphed into "Palomas Hot Springs". In 1914 we officially became "Hot Springs". It was a premier destination for the healing arts until pharmaceuticals came along after WWII - and the town's economy died. In 1950 Ralph Edwards of the RADIO show "Truth or Consequences" issued a challenge for a town to change its name for a day to celebrate the show's 10th anniversary & the town took him up on it. "T or C" earned so much free publicity over this that it saw a renewed burst of tourism, so they voted to change the name permanently. There have been votes to change the name back to "Hot Springs" that have failed.  Many towns in America are called "Hot Springs" but there is only one "T or C". People seek us out because of our quirky name. They get here & fall in love with the even quirkier town!
Thanks again! Great blog!!!
Gina Kelley
Director of Tourism
Sierra County Tourism Board
T or C, NM

My personal thanks to Gina for her nice email & letting me down easy.  With inaccurate facts & mistakes like that I just might be very qualified for a job at the National Enquirer. 

And a word to my fellow bloggers........better get it right guys because you never know who the heck is out here reading these darned bloggy things!!

 

ABOVE RIGHT IS OUR BOONDOCKING RV SITE

CHECKER’S IN THE RIO GRANDE RIVER NEAR OUR RV SITE AT THE RECREATION AREA

With to-day's interest in T or C continuing I've decided to post my other blogs & photos from the week we were there & I should also explain why we were there.  Kelly's sister Becky & husband Norm took on a Workamper job in Truth or Consequences at River Bend Hot Springs for awhile that year so we decided to drop in & see them on our way home to Ontario from Arizona & California.  I will include 4 of the 7+ days we were there because I've already blogged about the other days adventures to Hillsboro, Chloride, & Monticello last week.

THE GANG ROLLS INTO TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES           PHOTOS 1

I KNOW WHERE ALL THE HIPPIES WENT    PHOTOS 2

A RELAXING DAY

HIGH WINDS & ANGRY SKIES     PHOTOS 3

THE GANG ROLLS OUT OF TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES     PHOTOS 4

CHECKERS IS WAITING FOR THE CHANCE TO GRAB HER NEW TOY BACK!!

Now for the other reason I felt I was in trouble this morning.  I was outside beside the motorhome doing some stuff when I was aware of a car pulling up & stopping on the road near me.  Heard a voice so figured it was someone needing directions to somebody's place in the park here.  I walked over to the car & the driver shut the engine off.  Oh Oh!!  A big tall fellow stepped out, looked directly at me & I heard him say the words, "your blog."  Geeeeezzzz, now I knew I had to be in some kind of trouble for sure.  Oh no, was this the mayor of Truth or Consequences come to get me for last night's blog.  But then I heard him say the words, ‘Titanium Travelers’ & that immediately rang a distant RV bell for me.......and besides, he was smiling.  Always a good sign when the other person is smiling!!

His name was Doug & along with his wife Sue they have a Titanium 5th wheel  & live south of Cambridge Ontario.  Said how much he enjoyed my blog & has been following along with us for quite awhile.  Said he had sent me an email last winter so that's why I probably remembered that name plus he has a blog himself.  Doug & Sue were in the area on some business so had taken a drive through our park because he knew from our blog where we lived.  Nice chatting with them.   Co-incidentally, about an hour after they left & while sitting in downtown Bayfield’s Cafe Da Vinci having a coffee, Kelly walked in the door & they recognized her right away from our blog so Kelly got to meet them as well.  Thought that was really nice of them to stop by & say hello to-day.  You can find their blog here.....TITANIUM TRAVELERS

PHOTO AT LOWER RIGHT SHOWS A FLEETING SHADOW PATTERN ON ONE OF OUR KITCHEN CUPBOARD DOORS FRIDAY MORNING

Sure wasn't a nice weather day & I can't help but feel bad for the whole wedding party over at Deerpark Lodge who were there this afternoon for an outdoor wedding.  Cold & raining so the bride & groom are going to be off to a cold wet start.  Kelly's been busy getting things organized this week because it is Deerpark's first wedding ever.

Kind of takes me back to the day Kelly & I got married years ago.  It was a cold windy day in May & we never told anybody about it except our dog Max.  We asked a nearby Senior retired farm couple to stand up for us, grabbed ourselves a minister guy in St. Mary's Ontario & had a little wedding ceremony on the nice grounds of a rambling estate where I did part time grounds work.  The estate owners were still at their winter home in Portugal.   Kelly pretty much organized the whole thing & we had that minister guy in & out of there in under an hour.  No fuss, no muss, no bother, & no people.  Now, that's the way to do a wedding:))..........10-4!!!!

AND THIS IS WHAT CHECKER’S WAS LOOKING AT IN THE TOP PHOTO…….CORA’S GOT CHECKERS NEW TOY & WON’T GIVE IT BACK:))

GROANER'S CORNER:((  If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know?

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SOMETIMES RAINY DAYS MAKE ME GRUMPY

BLACK CAP CHIC-A-DEE

It's a cold wet drizzly damp day here in southwestern Ontario & I think even the birds are too depressed to fly except I did just see 2 Nuthatches & a Downie Woodpecker.  No doubt some of the birdseed in the feeders is a little on the soggy side.

SQUADRON OF GEESE LIFTING OFF THE POND

Our Hyundai Santa Fe passed it's pre-trip inspection & tune-up with flying colors this morning.  That car has turned  out to be one of the best vehicles we have ever had.  It's a used 2003 & I was a bit leery about it because of Hyundai's poor quality control years ago but after a lot of reading & research on the internet a couple of years ago I decided it was a good buy because  Hyundai had really turned things around & ranked right up there with Toyota in the quality control department.  Our Santa Fe is a good example of that & we are very happy with it.

OUR SURE FOOTED LITTLE SANTA FE MOUNTAIN GOAT  TREKKING THROUGH THE CHIRICAHUA MOUNTAINS IN ARIZONA…..MARCH 09

JERRY & SUZY are heading out in the morning from Benson, Arizona with their big rig on a two week jaunt over into New Mexico to an area Kelly & I had spent some time in during the spring of 08.  I recently blogged about 2 little ghost towns in the area by the names of Chloride & Monticello.  The other rugged little old west town we stopped in there was Hillsboro on the road between Truth or Consequences & Silver City, New Mexico.  It was a rough & ready mining town with a wild west track record.  Our blog for that day is HERE & our photos are HERE. 

THE ‘BARBER SHOP CAFE’ ABOVE & KELLY CHECKS THE BREAKFAST MENU IN THE ‘STORE CAFE’ ACROSS THE ROAD….BELOW

And I might as well throw in my two cents worth about the name 'Truth or Consequences' as a name for a town because it has always bugged me!!.  This place once had the proud name of Geronimo Springs until some wizenheimer decided to name it after that silly game show on television years ago.  Can't believe the townspeople went for that except I think the host of the show came to town one day & everybody got caught up in the moment & went all ga ga goo goo & then changed the name of their town.  I think if I had to live there I would be leading the charge to change the name back to Geronimo Springs.  Even the name of their State Park, Elephant Butte, is far better than what they have now.  I hope the host of, 'Deal or No Deal' or 'Your Face or Mine,' or 'Beat the Geeks,' or 'Dating Game,' or Wheel of Fortune,' never comes to Bayfield because if they do......I'm gettin outa town!!!!  Can you tell I do not like television game shows!!!!  And thank heavens I'm married to someone who feels the same way about them as I do.....10-4!!  (It's a rainy day so I think I'm kinda on the grumpy side)

NEW MEXICO’S TOWN OF TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES IS KNOWN FOR TURTLE BACK MOUNTAIN JUST ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE RIVER.  I TOOK THIS PHOTO PRIOR TO A STORM & THE LIGHTING SHOWS THE TURTLE WELL.  FLIPPERS ON LEFT, HUMPBACK SHELL IN THE MIDDLE WITH HEAD DROOPED DOWN THE MOUNTAIN TO THE RIGHT

ALIEN SPACSHIP OVER RIVERBEND HOTSPRINGS IN T or C?? …………………. NOPE, JUST A LAMP  REFLECTION IN THE WINDOW:))

We have a very talented woodworking fellow in our park here who specializes in turning, laminating, & segmenting wooden bowls, vases, cheese trays & pepper mills.  In other words Hank finds himself a fine piece of wood & proceeds to turn it on a lathe to a desired shape & then segments or implants other types of wood with it to form a fine finished product.  Some of his bowls can have over a hundred pieces of wood in them.  For anyone in our area looking for an original handcrafted gift you might want to have a look at Hank's Picasa web album site to see these one of a kind works of art.   Just click on RIVER ROAD WOODCRAFTS & for the best product view just press 'Slideshow' when you get there.

GROANER’S CORNER:((  If you think there is good in everybody, you obviously haven't met everybody yet.

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A LOOK BACK TO LAST WINTER’S ‘PAWS & HOOVES’ RANCH

TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER!!

Frost warning for our area to-night so old man winter's icy tentacles are beginning their first slow probing reaches into our area of southern Ontario.  Furnace has been coming on a few times & we've had our gas fireplace toasting up the cozy sunroom.  Only birds left at the feeders in the front yard now are Blue Jays, Black Cap Chic-a-Dee's & some Morning Doves.  The squirrels & chipmunks are still active & I'm still catching a few remaining frogs in the pond.

HI, MY NAME’S FRED…..DIDN’T MEAN TO SCARE YA

Kelly had most of the day off so we ran around doing a few errands in Goderich.  This afternoon she spent time working the phones getting things organized for our trip south soon.  She made arrangements for our Cable TV to be put on hold while we are away as well as our Bell Telephone account.  She is still phoning around gathering quotes for our medical coverage while in the States.  That alone will cost us over a thousand dollars.  Our ERS (emergency road service) comes up for re-newal shortly & that's another $200 gone.  She got us signed up with Ontario Hydro our electricity company so we can monitor our monthly bills on-line while away.  Hopefully this will prevent them from ripping us off again this winter.

MY NAME’S PAL & I AM THE BIG NIGHT TIME YARD BOSS!!

And what did I do to-day you ask.  Well, raked up a bunch of pine needles outside & cleaned the interior of our Hyundai Santa Fe.  Didn't want to take that Ontario dust all the way to Arizona with us.  They have enough of their own!!  The Santa Fe goes into the Bayfield Garage to-morrow morning for a tune-up & pre trip inspection & Checkers, our black & white border collie goes in for her semi-annual tune up at the local doggy groomers place in Varna called, ON GOLDEN PAWS.  The Motorhome was at the Bayfield Garage yesterday & everything checked out A-OK.  It always seems to cost us more money before we ever leave home than the whole 6 months away does.  This snowbird RV lifestyle is not for the cheap & faint hearted I can assure you!!

THESE LITTLE FELLOWS SPEAK WITH ENGLISH ACCENTS

While ranch sitting near Douglas, Arizona this past winter we were fortunate to not only see a lot of the surrounding territory but we did get to meet some mighty fine people as well.  Just east of a little place called Sunizona & just west of the mighty Chiricahua Mountains sits a small ranch by the name of, 'Paws and Hooves.'  I think this charming little place may have been the inspiration for the term, 'Animal Farm' because the Mother & Daughter team who run this wayward home for lost animals look after & care for quite a collection of critters.  In total they have a 106 legged family (give or take a few legs here & there) & one member (Fred) who doesn't have any legs at all.  Kelly & I dropped into see the Paws & Hooves gang on March 1rst of this year & you can read my blog for that day HERE & see the photos HERE.  We will be spending the American Thanksgiving in November with Rosanna & Carol at our friend's Jeanie & Ray's ranch near McNeal, Arizona.  In fact, about a month from right now we will be somewhere between here & there on our way down.  Probably closer to there though. 

AL CAN’T REMEMBER MY NAME BUT THAT’S OK…..I HEAR HE’S ONLY WEEKS AWAY FROM 65 NOW

Between phone calls this afternoon Kelly was loading more stuff in the motorhome so things are slowly coming to-gether at last but it won't be until we get down to the last week before we leave that things really get revved up & exciting.  I always like that final week before departure because the countdown is on, the rocket is fueled, checklists are complete, & the rig is waiting for the pilot, co-pilot & 3 furry crew members to board, ignition on, shift lever into gear, pedal down, & with a whir & a roar the big wagon wheels begin to roll.   "Westward Ho:))"

BRING YOUR FACE OVER HERE MISTER & I’LL PUT A BIG SLURPY ON YOUR NOSE

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Money will buy a fine dog, but only kindness will make him wag his tail.

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THINKING OF A 12 STEP PROGRAM

BAYFIELD’S PIONEER PARK SCENIC VIEWING STAND & STAIRS TO THE BEACH BELOW

In RICK'S BLOG to-day he brought to our attention Microsoft's recently released new anti-virus program called Security Essentials.  He is currently trying it out & I decided to give it a whirl as well.  Uninstalled my current AVG anti-virus program & downloaded Microsoft's Security Essentials.  Ran a scan & everything came up fine except it said we had some banana spiders in the utility shed & a flock of termites in the wood pile outside.  Oh well, guess that's better than a herd of turtles in a cloud of heifer dust.

EARLY MORNING CLOVER

I had left a comment on fellow blogger Rick's blog yesterday & the last two words I used in that comment kind of stuck with me for the rest of the day.  As human beings we are all prone to many forms of addictions.  Some of them serious, some funny, some permanent, & some that may only last a short time before giving way to the next passing addiction.  Many years ago cigarettes & alcohol were a couple serious ones for me but have long since been eliminated from my life.  Peanut butter & honey sandwiches are a yummy ones for me now.   Most of us guys have been addicted to girls at one time or another & for a couple years in the mid nineties I had a MacDonald's carrot muffin & vanilla ice cream cone thing going for quite awhile.  Ever been addicted to Oreo cookies??  Ya....thought so!!  With all the current addictions making the rounds it occurred to me recently that some of us out here in cyberspace may even be in the early stages of............."is it possible, could it be,"  Blogger addiction!!!!

HIGH WINDS MAKE FOR BREAKING WAVES OVER BAYFIELD’S PIER

I am finding myself at the computer more than ever these days with blog ideas in mind.  My morning shower thoughts of the coming day's practical activities have given way to upcoming blog topics.   My morning walks have turned into blog searches for photos & my mind is alert & aware for anything out of the usual happening in my world that might make for an upcoming blog post.  My sole purpose for leaving the house some days is to scrounge up a blog idea somewhere.  Maybe it's a stop along the road to watch some deer in a field or maybe it's a drive up to Goderich to a an old car rally or a motorcycle ride along the country roads looking for something to write about.   Maybe down to Bayfield's pier for some wave photos or Pioneer Park for a sunset.  Yes, I just might have become addicted to some of my favorite hobbies alright & I have this strange blogging phenomena to either thank or blame for it all. 

AUTUMN COLORS ARE SLOWLY MAKING THEIR WAY INTO THE FORESTS

Hmmmm, which one is it, which one will it be??  To thank or to blame.  Well, no contest as far as I am concerned.  A big thanks to all the computer programmer & software developer folks out there for putting this wonderful technology out here for a lot of closet key bashers like myself to express our thoughts & feelings, our creative sides, our humorous sides, & sometimes our sad sides.  What a great way to pass on information & ideas.  What a great way to keep the brain active every day & what a great way to meet other like minded folks out here in cyberspace who at this very minute are sitting at their keyboards, brains in high gear, furiously typing up their daily blogs.

HEAVY DEW THIS MORNING

What a great constructive & productive pastime this is, but it may not be seen that way by everyone.   There may be a dark horse lurking in the corner. There could be an angry spouse waiting for some things to be fixed around the house.  An employer looking over one's computer station shoulder wondering why production is down.  Grass is getting long, gutters need cleaning, car needs to be washed, & the garbage needs to be taken out.  But, here we sit at our keyboards with blog ideas in hand smokin up the keys!! 

ALONG THIS MORNING’S FOREST TRAIL

Somewhere down the road as this blogging addiction runs it's course with us all we may be faced with a dilemma.  Friends & family close to us may feel we definitely are in need of help.  Maybe even an intervention!!  Maybe even a twelve step program!!

VACANT SPOT……MOTORHOME IS IN GETTING IT’S PRE-TRIP INSPECTION TO-DAY

Aw yes, that good old twelve step program some of us are so very familiar with.  It all started with Alcoholics Anonymous years ago & since then the twelve step program has been adapted in several ways by many specialized addictive groups.  And so that brings me full circle around to the final two words I left in Rick's comment box last night......Blogger's Anonymous!!!!

 THE PINE NEEDLES CONTINUE TO FALL

Went to the bookshelf & dusted off one of my good old AA books this afternoon, sat down at my keyboard & opened the pages.  There before me was the official Twelve Steps To Recovery.   Thought about it for a few minutes then added, altered,  and eliminated a few words here & there & came up with.................................

                        Bloggers Anonymous

Step One:  "We admitted we were powerless over blogging - that our lives had become unmanageable."

Step Two:  "Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to our lawnmowers."

Step Three:  "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of our Spouses as we understand them."

Step Four:  "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of our thought patterns & blog archives."

Step Five:   "Admitted to our Spouses, to ourselves, & to another blogger person the exact nature of our blogging woes."

Step Six:  "Were entirely ready to have our Spouse remove all nasty posts from our blogs."

Step Seven:  "Humbly asked Her/Him to remove our shortcomings, our spell checkers, & our publish buttons"

Step Eight:  "Made a list of all fellow bloggers we had commented to, and became willing to make amends to them all."

Step Nine:  "Made direct amends to such bloggers wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them, their rants, or their blusterings."

Step Ten:  "Continued to take personal writing inventories and when we were wrong promptly didn't blog about it."

Step Eleven:  "Sought through humbleness and fear to improve our conscious contact with our Spouse as we understood Her/Him, begging only for knowledge of Her/His will for us and maybe our keyboards back to carry that out."

Step Twelve:  "Having had a blogger's awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to all fellow bloggers, and to practice these principles in all our restructured blogging affairs."    10-4!!

Hi, my names AL & I am a blogger:))

GROANER'S CORNER:((  The key to happiness is a bad memory!!

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MARSHAL SOUTH, GHOST MOUNTAIN, THE JULIAN CEMETERY, AND DIRECTOR JOHN McDONALD

Not sure why the MARSHAL SOUTH & Ghost Mountain story captivated me so much, but it did.  We were boondocked outside of Borrego Springs in the heart of California's ANZA-BORREGO DESERT STATE PARK back in January of 2008 when we drove to the Park's nature center in Borrego Springs to check on day trip adventures in the area.    A ranger behind the information desk told us of many sites to see & mentioned something about a family that had lived atop a mountain back in the 30's & 40's.  Said the site was over in Blair valley, there were a few ruins of the old cabin left, & it was a wee bit of hike to get up to the homestead.  That thought stuck with me & a week later we were on our way to Blair valley in search of Yaquitepec on GHOST MOUNTAIN.

THE LONG ROCK STREWN NARROW PATH LEADS UP THE SIDE OF GHOST MOUNTAIN FROM  BLAIR VALLEY BEHIND ME

 BLAIR valley is about a 40 minute scenic drive west of BORREGO SPRINGS through the Yaqui Pass. You can read about our first trip to Ghost Mountain HERE & see our photos HERE.  A few days after that visit Kelly picked up the book, MARSHAL SOUTH & THE CHRONICLES OF GHOST MOUNTAIN.  I immediately set about reading the book & finished it a few weeks later while we were boondocked over in Quartzite Arizona.  I knew at that time I wanted to not only return to Ghost Mountain again but also wanted to see if I could find where Marshal South was buried.  The book said his final resting place was in the little mountain town of JULIAN not far from Blair Valley.   We also found out a documentary had been made by director John McDonald & a second more detailed documentary DVD by the same director was due to be released shortly but not until after we had already headed back to Canada.  I definitely wanted to get a copy of that DVD somehow.   Little did I know that less than a year later director John McDonald himself would actually contact us, meet us at the foot of Ghost Mountain, & give us a signed copy of his DVD documentary, ‘The Ghost Mountain Experiment.’

OUR FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE MARSHAL SOUTH HOMESTEAD AS WE ROUNDED A CORNER ON THE TRAIL

In January of this year we once again found ourselves boondocked near the CLARK DRY LAKE BED close to Borrego Springs at the foot of the Santa Rosa & San Ysidro mountains.  I mentioned in a couple of my daily blogs that we were going to head over to  BLAIR VALLEY for a second trek up to the Marshal South site on Ghost Mountain.  And I also blogged about our day trip to the little mountain town of JULIAN in search of Marshal South's final resting place.  That day's blog is HERE & the photos of our visit to Julian & the cemetery are HERE.

MARSHAL SOUTH’S STONE IS THE FLAT ONE IN CENTER FOREGROUND BELOW, WITH THE TOWN OF JULIAN IN THE BACKGROUND

IT WAS A COLD RAINY DAY FOR MY SEARCH IN JULIAN’S CEMETERY

About this time we received a surprise email from the documentary's director JOHN McDONALD.  Said him & his wife Lydia were camping in the area & could meet us at Ghost Mountain if we liked.  He said our BAYFIELD BUNCH site kept coming up on his computer & he had known of my interest in the Marshal South story for quite awhile.  He has a program on his computer that alerts him whenever Marshal South or Ghost Mountain are entered into a search engine, so people clicking on our site kept bringing up the Bayfield Bunch on his computer.  He began to wonder who this Bayfield Bunch was & decided to email us.  Assuming that is how that search program works you may be reading this blog right now John, so a big 'Hello to you & Lydia from the Bayfield Bunch up here in Canada:))'

JOHN & LYDIA McDONALD WITH GHOST MOUNTAIN IN THE BACKGROUND.  YAQUITEPEC IS JUST ATOP THAT RIDGE ABOVE THEIR HEADS

The blog for our second visit to Ghost Mountain & meeting John & Lydia McDonald can be found HERE & the photos from that day are HERE.  We did pick up an autographed DOCUMENTARY DVD  from John that day as well.

 

JOHN AUTOGRAPHS THE DVD JACKET

We will probably be back in the Borrego Springs area sometime in January of 2010 & if we are you can be assured I will once again strap on my hiking boots, throw a camera over my shoulder, & head on up the mile high old rocky trail leading to Marshal South's Yaquitepec atop Ghost Mountain.  As I mentioned at the beginning of the blog, I don't know what it is that captivates me about this spot but it's as if I sense something special when I am there.  Being the totally logical person I am I certainly am at odds with my feelings about all that...........but, in a nice sort of way.

REST IN PEACE YAQUITEPEC

GROANER'S CORNER:((  If you don't have a sense of humor, you probably don't have any sense at all.

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A HARROWING MOTORHOME DRIVE OVER MINGUS MOUNTAIN IN NOVEMBER OF 2007

A WINDY STORM TOSSED LAKE HURON ALONG BAYFIELD ONTARIO’S SHORELINE

RV NET is our favorite website for keeping tabs on the pulse of the traveling RV public & it's the place to go with all your RV questions, curiosities, & comments regarding the lifestyle.  Many topics in the forums & any RV problems you have can be answered here by fellow RV folks.  Always people ready to lend a helping hand.  There is no cost to join the site, just register & away you go.  We've been members since 2002. 

ALL THESE BAYFIELD HARBOR BOATS WILL SOON HAVE TO COME OUT OF THE WATER FOR THE WINTER

It was while I was perusing through some of the topics yesterday morning that I came across a post from some folks thinking of buying their first RV. They were trying to decide on what length of an RV to buy.  The fellow mentioned that he didn't want an RV that was too long or it might limit them to certain parks & he didn't want to get into towns or places that were too small to get his RV out of.  He mentioned the MINGUS MOUNTAIN  town of Jerome, Arizona as an example & that immediately reminded me of an accidental wrong turn & harrowing ride we had over Mingus Mountain right smack dab into the narrowed streets of Jerome on November 26th of 2007 with our 33 foot motorhome.  Our blog for that day is HERE & the photos I took while trying to squeeze through the streets of Jerome & still leave some paint on the rig are HERE.  Additional pictures of Jerome, Arizona are HERE.

SQUEEZING THE MOTORHOME THROUGH THE STREETS OF JEROME, ARIZONA

When we think of Autumn we generally thing of falling Autuman leaves, & that's a common thought.........unless you live in a pine forest!!  Before moving here we never thought of pine trees dropping their needles in the fall.  Not all of them of course, but a lot of them.  Always a big huge pine needle clean-up in the sping.  It is windy here to-day & it almost looks like a lite snowfall with all the pine needles falling from the trees.

THE YELLOW PINE NEEDLE  ROAD IN FRONT OF OUR HOUSE

Had a few questions about yesterday's Ikea blog & the furniture we bought there for the motorhome.  A resounding 'yes' to the question about whether the furniture has worked out well & do we still like it. 

POANG CHAIR….2008	VERY HAPPY WITH EVERYTHING
THE PAINTING BEGINS	BORREGO SPRINGS 09

ONE PICTURE SHOWS MAX RESTING ON A BIG CHAIR IN THE CORNER….THAT CHAIR FOLDS OUT INTO THE  COMFORTABLE SINGLE BED LITTLE CORA IS SITTING ON

While boondocking east of Sierra Vista last winter we met a fellow on RV Net who worked on the army base at Fort Huachuca.  We called him Sergeant John.   The ‘Sarge’  & his wife Jackie live in the little town of Elfrida.  They are an RV couple & the Sarge’s hobby is his 2 Hudson Hornet cars.  They have traveled to many car rallies over the years & I think John may have been President of the Hudson Hornet Car Club at one time.  The photo album below shows the Sarge’s cars in storage at his home.

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It has turned out to be a very windy & gray rainy day but I did manage to slip over to the lake earlier & grab a few photos before the rains returned.

THE FISHING BOATS EVEN STAYED IN HARBOR TO-DAY

A VIEWPOINT AT BAYFIELD’S PIONEER PARK OVERLOOKING LAKE HURON & THE BEACH BELOW

GROANER’S CORNER:((  The nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow.

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