FEBRUARY 2005

We put our name back on the list for a lot at the Escapee park in Sutherlin, Oregon. We'd had our name on the list before, but had taken it off when we bought the lot in Quartzsite. But we've decided (for now, at least) that we probably won't want to stay in Quartzsite year round when the time comes that we either don't want to travel, or can't. Although it does get cool and rainy in Sutherlin during the winter, it doesn't get really, really cold and it's comfortable in the summer. It's also close to the Interstate making it easy to get to the places we like to travel the most. It will probably be six years before our name makes it to the top of the list.

We received a call from Claude Singleton from the Alturas, California BLM office to confirm that we will, indeed, be hosting at Pit River Campground near Fall River Mills. We were originally going to camp host during the months of August, September, and October, but Claude said he'd probably need us for the months of May, June, and July instead.

One of our satellite receivers bit the dust, so we went by the local satellite dealer to purchase a new one plus a wireless router for our satellite Internet system. I later ended up returning the router, because in trying to install it, the program asked me some questions I didn't know the answer to, and I couldn't find anyone who could give me the information...the people at Satellite Advantage, where we bought it, were of no help whatsoever!

Ron and Donna Monroe came by for a visit on the 13th, and the next day we went out to visit them where they were parked out on BLM land.

Earl went to the doctor in Blythe to get a renewal of this prescription for Pravachol. The doctor had a whole bunch of Pravachol that he gave Earl for free...enough to last almost a year!

We took our Averatec and our Toshiba laptops into Sue Sites in Blythe for repair. There's not much they can do for the Averatec since it's the screen that's going bad, and to have that repaired would cost more than it's worth. We took a trip to Yuma to purchase a new laptop since we can't rely on the Averatec to last much longer...and I like to have two laptops available to have one as backup. We were originally going to buy another Averatec at Sam's Club, but they were completely out of stock. So, after doing some shopping there, we stopped at the Staples to get an Ethernet PC card that we could put in an older HP laptop we have. It turned out that Staples was having a sale on a brand new HP Pavilion laptop for less than $600, so we ended up with it!

We were planning on going to the Lazy Daze Caravan Club's get together at the LaPaz County Park north of Parker. But, the day it started, we had a real doozy of a thunder and lightening storm, so we decided not to go.