Beatty Nevada is a cool little town known as the gateway to Death Valley.
I love the desert for it’s art. There is a closed Brothel in Beatty named Angel’s Ladies and they have an airplane out front.
Next stop is Rhyolite Ghost Town. These days Rhyolite is more like an artist colony than a ghost town. All photos below are for personal use and not for reproduction! The artists have copyrighted all their art displays.
Stay tune for Death Valley.
This year we’re spending the summer in Oregon. We’ve been standing still in Western Arizona but it got to hot so it’s time to go. We left Monday May 5th and our first stop is the town of Beatty, Nevada. Here’s some shots of the Nevada dessert on the way to Beatty.
More to come from the road; Death Valley, Twin Falls Idaho’s – Perrine Bridge, Shoshone Falls, and more TBD.
A day in the life of Chill’n The Full-Time RVing dog. When we go for a ride Chill’n takes his place on the center console. Today we’re taking chill’n to the river and the dog park.
Chill’n made a friend at the dog park.
Let’s go to Maine today.
Maine
Maine
Maine
So in this time of social distancing and the like maybe it time to post photo’s of vacations or just plan travels. Let’s your best #photocation. Today’s photocation is Glacier National Park.
Glacier N.P. MT
Glacier N.P. MT
Yesterday was that day where you just can’t do the same thing you’ve been doing for another day. That can only mean one thing, we need to take a drive see something different. We started in the AG country in Laughlin NV.
Yup kind of an ugly day but the desert is as green as we have every seen it. We took some back roads over to Route 66 “The Mother Road” and followed it through Oatman, AZ to the out skirts of Kingman AZ.
The colors and textures of a Spring Desert.
We hope you enjoyed this Pic-cation.
We’ve been talking about going to the balloon festival for as long as we’ve been wintering in Western Arizona and this is the year. The wind as been an issue in previous years, but this year the weather is on our side. We get to Lake Havasu City and the Moon is still in the sky and it’s about thirty-eight degrees.
The crowd is growing and so is the anticipation and off in the distance you can see character balloons being inflated.
The moment of truth the Mass Ascension, or not. I guess a lot of the people fill their balloons but they don’t take them up. In the sky at one time, there was probably five or six balloons that launched from all over the city.
But the best was yet to come. We had been talking about rescuing a little dog to travel with us. So while we were in Lake Havasu City we dropped by the shelter and found this little guy.
It’s been so much fun watching him come out of his shell. The funny thing is I’m more of a cat person and Darla is more of a dog person. When we had talked about pets we thought it would be a cat and a dog. Chill’n is the best of both worlds. He likes to hang out in your lap, loves the dog park, and rides in the truck.
This is an opinion editorial based solely on my 60 years of life experience, I have no degrees, life has been my educator.
life seems to have no shortage of things to be fearful about but the healthy fear is based in facts. Healthy Fear can change my behaviors that may cause injury like jumping off a cliff. It’s this healthy fear that helps me grow.
This type of fear (the fear of the unknown) is the most destructive in my life, if left unchecked it grows into worry and before I know it I’m worried sick about things that may happen but haven’t happened yet and frankly may never happen. This fear seems to be rooted in the unknown. The only thing I’ve found that helps me in these times of uncertainty is to focus on what is true and real. So let me apply this to the current fear that has gripped the world….. Coronavirus!
I figure my best shot of surviving the Coronavirus is;
In the end I will either get the virus or I won’t, that has already been decided. But my best efforts can only go so far and worry will not change that in a positive way.
If I give myself over to the fear of the unknown and I worry hard enough I can actually unknowingly make the very thing I’m worried about happen. For example going to the grocery store and stocking up on things that I really don’t need for a crisis that hasn’t happen yet. If enough people do that than the price of items go up and it creates shortages. Panic is not my friend!
In the end lets all be safe. Lets employ the “commons” common sense, and common curiosity. We all have different risk factors so lets do the things that keep us safe. Like most things in life this will soon be a memory.
Here’s some pictures from our stay in Southern California. One of my favorite things to do is take the Balboa ferry. As you can see everything in Newport Beach knows how to surf .
Views from the Balboa ferry. I would not recommend taking full size truck or rv to go on the ferry. Lots of narrow streets to get to ferry and ferry only holds 3 cars at a time.
Crystal Cove is a great little State Park right on the coast.
A couple of random shots taken.
This is our spot at the campground we are staying at in Sam Dimas.
Walking around the rv park you get these great aerial views of Puddingstone Lake. ( Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park)
In the distance you can see Brackett Field a small airport in the city of La Verne.
In our section the wildlife is pretty tame.
The Cactus is what we see when we sit outside. Our site backs up to a hill that has a lot of this type of Cactus.
Full-Timing with Jesus 