Another step North!

We started this week near Quartzsite by going to breakfast in Bouse.  Now Bouse is a very small community about twenty-five miles from Quartzsite.  The road is very scenic and can be enjoyed as long as you don’t have to drive (which we didn’t).  The  breakfast is a fund raising effort by the community and is every Monday morning.  For a whole $5.00 you get an egg, two pancakes, and a sausage patty – can’t beat that. 

I finally got to spend a couple of days sewing X’s on pairs of squares that I had cut out earlier in the year in my endeavour to make a couple of quilts.  It was a good week as I managed to finish sewing the 364 X’s that I had tried to complete earlier in the year.  Now, in the next couple of weeks, I will have to get them all sewn together so I can go home with completed quilts. 

On Thursday we went up to Lake Havasu to once again, camp on the island for a couple of days.  Sometimes in the New Year, it was all posted for “No Camping” so we went to plan B, to just north of the airport – a nice quiet, lovely spot. 

Molly

Plane wreck

We contacted Glenn and Barb,  friends from Regina who have now moved to Victoria but were in the area.  We had a great visit and lots of laughs.  Our plan was to go off-roading but a day of intermittent rain and some thunder showers changed our minds.  Instead we went to a movie, and we decided to extend our stay by a day so we could still go off-roading the next day.  There is a trail to a plane wreckage that contains the remnants of a WWII TB-25J twin engine bomber that crashed while on a training flight August 11, 1945. All five crew members were killed two of which were believed to be brothers. While there isn’t much left of the site, there may never have been a lot since the wreckage was likely scattered quite a distance.  The trail to the site goes past some dry falls which supposedly are quite spectacular when water is running.  We had hoped that we would get to see this site as a result of the rains yesterday, but no luck. We did see/meet a fair number of vehicles - mostly ATV's.  One, in particular, caught out eye.

The wildflowers are starting to bloom, particularly around Lake Havasu.  The area apparently has had periods of rain throughout the winter months.  Instead of our saying – “April showers bring may flowers”, down here it is more like “winter showers bring wild flowers”.  It is a wonderful site to see the showy flowers pop up out of the dry, arid soil. 

While being around Lake Havasu has been great fun, internet access is frustrating, to say the least.  While the signal is great, it is next to impossible to connect to the internet.  This means it is just like the old days – run to the nearest Wi-Fi a couple of times a day to check your email.  But it is time to move on again.

 

We have now moved to the Avi casino for a day before we carry on.  So far we have both had a little luck - enough to buy the .99 shrimp cockail or a hotdog.  Hopefully it will continue.

 

Sorry I am a bit late in posting this - the lousy internet is to blame.  Hopefully, from here on in, it will be much better.