Transitional photo: snakes shed their skin from front to back; I shed layers from bottom to top.
I knew we must be getting close to AZ when I could shed the shoes and socks in Vegas.
Happy toe freedom day December 29th!
Well, we made it back down to the desert and some relative warmth... left on Dec 27th and bailed the motorhome out of jail in Quartzsite on the afternoon of the 29th. We're set up back on BLM land at the same spot we were at in November. We'd prefer to be back on the Bouse side but the poor phone and terrible internet connection just doesn't work for us right now.
Ahhhhh! Desert sunsets again!
Wendy put her back out again after we got here; whether that's because of the long trip in the jeep or the sleeping in the jeep one night or unrelated is a matter of hot debate... but the bottom line is that she's been down and out since the 30th. Good news is that she's slowly getting back to whatever her normal is.
Popped over to the vegetable truck guy in Bouse and stocked up right after we got here.
It was a bit costly ($23.50) but we had nothing on hand so I suppose that's reasonable.
Meantime I have the Shaw Direct receivers installed on both TVs now so we've been getting our fill of hockey - IIHF (go CANADA!) and NHL. The new solar setup is putting out acceptable amounts of juice (0.4 KWH a couple days ago when it was cloudy and dreary all day, to 2.7 KWH yesterday when it was mostly sunny all day. Can't wait to see what it'll harvest on those long sunny summer days in Alberta...). The afternoon hockey games have been great, power wise: by 1 PM the batteries are all re-charged and all the TV watching til dark is pretty much directly off the panels, so basically "free". Anyway, nice to have TV again (besides the antenna channels) as an activity option and also to not have to burn a bunch of diesel to do it.
Hockey in the desert! Awesome!
Also have been playing around with the drone I got for Christmas - a small inexpensive (but amazingly tough) one which is perfect for learning. I'm getting quite the collection of rock videos accumulated... I'll put some video on the youtube channel once my flights get longer than 30 seconds and I have good (ie free) bandwidth to upload. In the meantime here are a few hilite stills from the videos:
Rock videos, bush videos, sky videos... I have them!
But I do occasionally manage to stay away from the ground for a minute or two, and here are a few shots to prove it!
I know I must be getting better, because a) the videos are getting to be less and less close up rocks and more and more far away rocks, and b) I no longer have to walk 2 kilometers back to the motorhome after the drone battery dies. Practice practice practice makes better better better, right Pancho?
Speaking of which, the bronze medal game is on in 1/2 hour and if I'm going to get some flying practice in I'd better get out there! Bye for now!
