Family Visit in Blythe

Sunday, the 19th, we traveled west on I-10 the 20 miles to Blythe, CA. We went to visit Donna's son Scott and his wife Melissa, along with their 2 children, Brock (10) and Mia (6). We had not seen them in 8 years. We had a wonderful visit. It was so good to see them again.

This visit was one of the main reasons we chose this route south for the winter. The kids were great. We talked and talked. We are thinking of swinging through here every year,

We were visiting while the Broncos were beating the Patriots. Then we had to head home to watch the Seahawks win. I had the DVR set for that one.

I had the inverter on all day, and with the overcast skys and maybe the coffee making, my battery State Of Charge (SOC) was down to 60 percent in the morning. So Monday morning I got the generator out (Honda 2000) and fired it up for about an hour. I usually just run it monthly a few minutes to keep it healthy and really never had to use it. I shut it off and with the sun charging us at 27 amps, we were back to a 100 Percent SOC by 4 PM.

We were going to visit the big tent today, but the place was a mad house and we saw no parking within walking distance so we will try again tomorrow. We did drive over to the Scaddan Wash area to visit Boomersville. The SKP group 'Boomers' holds an annual rally here every year. Maybe next year we will plan half our time here with the Christian Fellowship BOF group, and maybe a week with the Boomer group too.

Donna is trying to kick a cold she picked up (probably from me). Good thing we went to Mexico for some drugs the other day. She is using the anti-biotics we bought there already.