On Saturday, we drove up to Lake Havasu City. Wow! The drive up took about 2 hours, and the scenery was gorgeous. One thing I have found about Arizona, is that the scenery looks different around every bend in the road.
The first place we stopped was Parker Dam, in Parker, Arizona:
They say the Colorado River is the damed-est river in the United States!
Some years ago when I first met my mother and father in-law, they went “out west” every year for a few months in the winter. They were the first ones who told me about Quartzsite, and all the fun they had out there, camping in the desert with their friends, and going to the gem and mineral shows, and the flea markets. I was hooked! Yes, Poppa, it’s y’alls fault!
So, on Friday, I got to go there myself for the first time. I was like a kid on sugar filled kool-aid, I was that excited.
We saw this 1963 Cushman motorcycle at the flea market there. FabGrandpa told me all about how his dad used to work on them at his second job, after he got off work at the Navy.
Wow, it still works, and had the original paint, and they only want $4,000.00 for it. What a great deal.
The flea market had lots of neat stuff. I bought some vintage skeleton keys, and here is what I did with them:
But the best part was going to the bead and rock stores. Lynda and I had such a good time in there. I bought a bunch of stuff, so did she, and we have been spending all our free time in the cargo trailer, I mean Girlie Playhouse, making stuff:
This one is made with polished rocks and glass beads. I have put a lot of new things up in my Etsy store today, go take a look.
We only went for a few hours, but we have plans to go back soon. My head is spinning with ideas for new stuff.
(Lynda at her jewelry workbench)Lynda and Charlie have a cargo trailer that they pull behind their motor home. While they are traveling, they drive their car up into the trailer, and pack up their crafting tools. When they park somewhere, the car comes out, and they set up Lynda’s workshop, where she makes jewelry out of silverware and wire wrapping. She’s pretty good at it. Charlie makes fountains and other stuff.
(My sewing table)Today, we got to work, well, they did mostly, of setting up the workshop. They let me put up my sewing machine and sewing stuff on the other wall. I am so excited about this set-up! Now, Lynda and I can sit out there, in our girlie play-house, and make our crafty stuff, and just have a good old time!
After we got it all set up, I made another Wait Book. This one has is made from a Noah’s Ark print fabric with solid brown. It’ll be for sale in my Etsy store .
So we said goodbye to Phoenix and all her traffic, and hit the road on our way to Salome. Yeah, bye bye, traffic. Bye bye, road construction. Bye bye, airport landing pattern. Bye bye, motorcycle repair school and all those crotch rocket riding fools. We’re headed for the desert.
I have had enough of the congestion, road work, noise, and airplanes flying so low overhead I could read the letters on their landing gear.
Our little Bluebird Of Happiness rides with us everywhere we go. I don’t remember how ong we’ve had him, but he lives up there on the visor most of the time. Although sometimes he shows up on the rearview mirror, or inside the trailer. He is most happy when we are driving down the road.
And at the end of the day, the sky was absolutely gorgeous. This is looking east from our campsite. Not exotic, but nice. Quiet. And they told us not to drink the water when we checked in. Oh, well, can’t have everything, I guess.This morning when I signed in to My Yahoo, I looked at my horoscope, and here is what it said:
“You could be travelling or perhaps planning a journey to an exotic destination. You may even have to decide at a moments notice…”
Hahahahaha!
Yeah, well, we ARE leaving Phoenix today, going on down the road about 100 miles to Salome. For anyone who may be in the area, we’ll be at 3 Dreamers RV Park until April something or other. FabGrandpa and I would love to see you.
I am almost never up before the sun comes up, but FabGrandpa wanted to get the oil changed in the truck today. He wanted to be first in line so we had to be there before 7:00 a.m.!! While he was getting the truck stuff done, I bought groceries. We had everything done and back home before 8:30. Can you say NAP?
Me and Lynda waiting for the next customer to come along.
