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| March 25th and on the road again from Tucson to west of Phoenix and Salome... We saw this beauty at a truck stop on I-10 while having our coffee and cookies... But disaster for Mrs Blogger, my SLR camera wouldn't work (this taken with my compact) and it's broken, I'm devastated, me thinks an expensive visit to Reids Photographic on return to Blighty..... This is a route we have travelled several times before and when we head off across country (Salome is in the middle of nowhere) there are cattle grids and signs for "free range cattle"...Yorkieman commented that we had never seen a cow near this road and within 3 minutes there is a dead cow on the side of the road !!! We then spotted several cows and another 3 dead ones....we hadn't realised the road is locally known as "Dead Cow Road" !!!! with the size of some of them we hate to think of the damage to the vehicle, but it's a straight road and cows don't exactly leap out like deer !!!! |
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| One of the lovely sunsets at Desert Vista RV Park, Salome... We are here for 6 days to catch up with camping friends. We had a lovely surprise on arrival as a couple we had not seen for a couple of years stayed on a few extra days when they heard The Brits were headed to town !!!! |
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| These stunning flowers only last a day or two especially as the daily temperature is now mid to high 80's..... |
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| Camp Harris...and it's hot hot hot...warming our bones ready for the cooler climes next week.....I had good news that I have work at the library for another year so one happy bunny..... |
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| Not a very good picture of one of the many hummingbirds attracted to our neighbours feeder....we were quite fascinated watching them, as well as learning there are many different types it was interesting to see the "pecking" order !! We were lucky enough to see a "brown rufous" which is quite rare in this area... Had my SLR camera been working I could have done a better job..... |
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| I missed getting a pic the day there were 6 engines pulling the "cars" on our local line, I was walking back from the club house without a camera...hey ho..... |
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| A beautiful rising moon....just a smidgen from full... |
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| Yorkieman and Wally as we head over to the clubhouse for the evening game of Fastrack.....a great strategy board/card game.....we are now proud owners of a board that Wally very kindly made for us.... |
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| Saturday March 31st..... The long and not "winding road" as we say farewells to our camping buddies and head west on SR72.... |
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| We cross back over The Colorado River into California to head north on US95 to Nevada.... |
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| We could have headed north through Arizona and Lake Havasu and as much as it would have been good to see the London Bridge again this is a quieter route .....and we have a full tank of diesel so don't have to pay "Californian" prices !!!! |
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| Our Hawaiian Bradda Ed is still happily shaking his booty...... |
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| The vibrant city of Las Vegas is on the other side of that hill.... |
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| And here we are once more back at Hitchin' Post RV Park in North Las Vegas all packed and ready for storage tomorrow and our flight back to Blighty... It's hot and we are not looking forward to the cooler climes but we are very much looking forward to seeing family and friends.... We shall leave you with a heart felt thank you for following our blog and travels it means a lot to us..... Until the next time it's bye for now from Yorkieman and Mrs Blogger..... |
