The Golf Joke

Wind TurbinesThe Wind

April 20 &21 – Most of you know, I do like my golf. So here we are in Sands RV & Golf Resort in Desert Hot Springs, California, in a beautiful Resort with it’s own golf course, and I didn’t even pick up a club. The problem….the wind was blowing hard all the time and gusting up to 80 km/hour throughout the day and night. Even with our stabilizers down, the RV was shaking for the 48 hours we stayed there. I guess we should have figured it out when there are acres of large wind turbines lining the hills around us. We spent most of Wednesday cruising around the Palm Springs area. Went to Bermuda Dunes Country Club to have a look but they wouldn’t let us past the gate. I played Bermuda Dunes 30 years ago when 5 of my hockey buddies and I went there on a golf trip. I guess times change??

GO CANUCKS GO!! – The series is tied at 2 - 2!

April 22, 2010

* We woke up to a cool morning as snow was ½ way down the surrounding mountains and we left Desert Hot Springs. The weather was overcast all day so it kept the temperature down all the way through Arizona (66 F was hottest), perfect for travelling. We stopped in Ehrenberg as we crossed the border into Arizona, and great news, the price of diesel dropped below $3.00/ gallon. Last Spring Break, Laurie & I rented a car and drove from the north to south end of Arizona, spending considerable time in the Phoenix and Tucson areas. We feel like we have a pretty good understanding of this State, so we drove straight through from west to east, along Hwy 10. Tonight we are in Benson, Arizona, some 65 miles from the New Mexico border. We are dry-camping in a lot at the Saguaro SKP Private RV Resort. The weather system from California is following us and it is cloudy and cool tonight.  We travelled a total of 444 miles today.

Sands RV and Golf Resort

Snow in Palm Springs

April 23, 2010
We left Benson Arizona at 7:45 am and headed for New Mexico.  Today we crossed the Continental Divide and headed for Las Cruces, New Mexico.  Again a cloudy day but we had a tail wind and our MPG rose dramatically.  Before we left, I reviewed the New Mexico Tourist Guide and to tell you the truth, their was not a lot to see along our route.  We decided to go into Las Cruces, but I missed the Hwy Exit so we just kept on going to El Paso Texas.

Las Cruces N. Mexico

El Paso, Texas has just under 700,000 people but the traffic is crazy.  We drove through at 1:30pm and traffic came to a stand still numerous times, for no apparent reason other than merging traffic.  Go figure.  We stopped in an RV campsite south of El Paso and we plan to explore the town tomorrow.
We only travelled 300 miles today.