On the Road Again! - April 14, 2019

April 8th, I had my medical weight loss appointment. Back in August, I started the program weighing in at about 245. It started as a 1100 calorie a day diet, and now is a full blown Keto eating style. I get weighed in every 2 weeks. This will be my last appointment because we are heading north for the summer. Well, I lost 6 more pounds during the last 2 weeks, weighing in at 190.5. I got to graduate from the program with a BMI of 29.0. I have lost 54 pounds and feel great.


This is Renee, my weight loss counselor.

Donna started the Keto also and has dropped 27 so far. And we are still going strong.

April 10th, with the RV all packed up and ready to go, we locked up the house, and headed out. We hit a little wind, but it felt great to be traveling again. After a nice 223 mile drive north on Highwy 95, we stopped tor 2 nights at the Riverside Adventure Trails in Fort Mohave, AZ. It is an RPI campground and we only paid $11.00 a night.

While there, I had to replace our water pump. What timing! $125.00 later, we had a new pump.

Then we headed out again, not really planning a stop. We drove through some wind and even hail and snow in Nevada. After 355 miles, we found a nice place to stop in Ely, NV at Valley View RV Park. We did one night at $28.10 with Good Sam discount.

It was cold there. A little snow too. The next morning it was 23 degrees. We decided to move farther north where is was at a lower elevation and a bit warmer.

145 miles north on Highway 93, was the Welcome Station RV Park just outside of Wells, NV. Our good friends Steve & Nancy bought this park a couple years ago and have been fixing it up. We decided to spend 3 nights with them. We got 2 days with a Passport America discout, and an additional day with a Escapees discount. Three nights for $47.80 - not bad. And it was fun catching up with them.


The Welcome Station RV Park

I am having a little trouble with our landing gear making a 'crunching/clunking' sound. I think I will be replacing the gear box assembly as soon as we get to Washington.

Tuesday, we will be off again.



The Fergs out .......

About Time for a Post! - March 31, 2019

Wow! Time sure is flying by. It has been over a month and a half since my last post. Time to catch up....if I can remember what all we have been doing. Here goes.

We did some visiting friends. It seems almost everyone who winters in Arizona, eventually makes it into Yuma for a spell. We spent some time with Nancy & Steve and Ed, while they were in town. Another good time. We will stop and see them again when we head north soon they own an RV park near Wells, NV.

Last season, while visiting yard sales around the area, I bought a big set of beer making supplies. Time to try it all out. I purchased a beer kit from Northern Brewer. It is Block Party Amber Ale. I sanitized all of my pieces and parts, and proceeded to make a 5 gallon batch.

It was kinda fun. A lot of work though. I got it in the carboy fermenting, and then I will start bottling in 2 weeks.

I went to the Howling at the Moon at the end of April. It is always the last full moon of each month.

Everyone was having a good time.

Working around our house....
We painted our Arizona room that I built this season.

I also ripped a piece of T-111 and did the trim inside and out. Yay! It is finally done.

And we also went to Costco in El Centro and bought 20 boxes of Laminate Flooring. I ripped out the carpeting in our living room, hallway, and bathroom, and installed the new flooring. That was quite the job. Then I bought new base boards to go around it all. Looks good. Sorry, no pics.

Well, the two weeks have gone by. Time to bottle the Ale.

Now it is a two week wait (at room temperature) before refrigerating and enjoying.

I also went to the annual Yuma Airshow at he USMC Air Base. Lots of cool planes and demos.

Ont of the demos was the A-10 Thunderbolt Two live fire. Awesome!

We packed up the RV and along with Bev & Tim, we all headed to Palm Springs. We stayed 5 nights at the Thousand Trails there.

While there, we visited the San Andreas Fault just outside of Palm Desert.

Cool area. Water seeps up from the fault and has turned the place into an oasis.

Oh, and since two weeks had passed since I bottled my Ale, I took 4 bottles with me. My 5 gallon batch made 27 22 oz bottles. I have been faithfully on the Keto diet for a month and a half (lost 46 pounds), but hey, this is vacation time.

OMG! It was soo good! Smooth and yummy.

While in the area, we met up with Tim & Erik, who were our Team Leaders at the fire camp in Paradise, CA back in December and January. We had lunch at a nice street cafe in downtown Palm Springs.

Yep, Palm Springs is a great place to spend time at.

Interesting stuff all over.


I have been hiking up in the Telegraph Pass area probably 5 times a week. Good exercise and the desert is really blooming.

And we hve blooms on our cacti at our place too!

Right now, we are packing up the RV and getting everything ready to close up the house and head north for the summer. We are planning to head out April 10th. Our route this year will be north through Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, and into Washington. Our grand daughter, Ally just turned 9 months old. Lookin' forward to visiting our kids, grand kids, and our great grandson.
                          




The Fergs out .......