Author: Larry Hemmerich

April 6th The Galveston bird Festival called Feather Fest starts on Thursday.  Jayne has signed us up for a few of the events, mainly the groups going out to see birds. The first one is with a guy named Greg Miller. He is a famous birder and a movies was made about Him a few…

Broad-tailed grackle in full bloom. Rascal. You should hear them, make very strange sounds. Mercedes, TX.               So long you long legged creatures.         Time to go, heading north today to a spot by the ocean. Going to be a windy drive. Waitin” for the sun…

March 13th We have been driving to San Antonio from Castroville the last few days.  Seems there is a lot to see. We followed the trail of missions today to the Alamo.  Mission San Jose today. San Antonio, TX.What an impressive sight.   This is Mission Conception.     Was admiring all the characters in…

It is a short 150 mile drive from Stockton to the Seminole Canyon State Park. Seemed longer, maybe because both of us were tired from yesterdays long windy drive. When we left this morning the Sat TV would not store…got out the emergency instructions and as Jayne read them, I punched the codes in…it worked…was…

March 1st About 100 north of Las Cruses is Elephant Butte State Park. Up at the North End is a campground that we saw last year when here, a place that has been on Jaynes bucket list. Space 19 at the very end over looking the Rio Grand and Elephant Butte Lake. Its a great…

TIP…..you can tap on the small photos to enlarge Wed, Feb 22nd We sadly left Motorcoach Resort heading to Apache Junction to have a small air leak looked at.  We stopped at the Sams parking lot and met a guy to weigh all four cornors of the coach.  He had portable weighing equipment.  He provides…

Arrived in Indio with no issues.  Great to be in civilazition! This is a first class resort! ….Home for the next few weeks Drove around this afternoon to see what has changed since our last visit 2 years ago.  A few place have gone out of business, a few new buildings, but overall , the…

Up 95 from Yuma is the famious Qusrtzite.   Out in the desert with 1000s of RV all around on the BLM land. As we got closer to Quartzite we began to see cluters of RVs  We chose to stay at a Park about 13 miles East, Desert Gold. You never know what they are…

Just got to Ajo late yesterday, out in the boonies, close to the border. What a interesting town, built around mining and now trying to hang on by making it an artist’s center and history of the mine. Some amazing buildings built by the mine company to attract workers, many little bungalows are now for sale,…

Dec 29th… We having been wanting to try a little more remote camping. This is a great county park about 15 mile west of Tucson. Close to the Desert Museum. The is only 30A power and no hookups. We filled the water tank and emptied the holding tanks before we came. This is a learning…

Saturday, Dec 17th Ever hear of Chiricahua National Monument. I had not, but Jayne had….We started out just to go to Wilcox to see the area. Stoped at a great barbaQ place for lunch. It was in a old railroad car that had bee added on to. I could tell Jayne did not want to…

Reminder….tap any picture to see it larger Sunday, Dec 4 Went down town where found the old hotel CONGRESS that had a great Restaurant. We were surprised to find in the lobby a 3 piece trio that was GREAT.  There was a bar where they made custom Bloody Marys. You had to fill out this…

We arrived in tucson on Sunday afternoon the 20th…stayed at the La Posada Lodge.  It was an old place but nice. Monday We went to see the Bus and get the new cell antenna installed. Found the bus to be in great shape…I had it waxed and found a few places that needed touch up. They…