MARCH 2005

On the 4th, Lazy Daze owners, Tom and Yaeko Johnston spent the night at our place on their way to Mexico. We had met Tom and Yaeko last year at the Northwest Lazy Daze group's get together when we parked right next to them at the RV park in Sisters, Oregon. They also have a red and white Twin/King model like ours. We all went out to dinner at Taco Mio.

We took the Honda in to the Ford dealer over in Blythe for an oil change and tire rotation. We also had a filter change done in the Lazy Daze that was part of a recall.

One of our neighbors, Joyce, was thinning out the cactus in her yard, and offered us some. We planted them, and hope they make it through the summer...they won't have a chance to get as well established at the other cactus we planted shortly after returning to Quartzsite.

I had my eyes checked and ordered new glasses. They ordered the progressive bifocals (the kind where you can't see the line) that I hated! I tried them for a couple of weeks and could never get used to them, so they ordered regular bifocal lenses for me.

On the 16th, we left Quartzsite early and headed for the Lazy Daze Caravan Club's get together being held at the Stagecoach Trails RV Park in the Anza Borrego Desert. We stopped in Brawley for lunch and did grocery shopping at Von's before arriving at the RV park. This was the first Caravan Club get together we've attended, and we had a lot of fun. There are people who go to every single one, but we probably won't go to more than one or two per year.

While at the get together, we took a trip into Julian where I bought a purple T-shirt with a picture of a red hat on it to go with the red hat I'd purchased previously. This in preparation for the LaDeze (women Lazy Daze owners) get together at LaPaz County Park north of Parker.

On Sunday, we left the Lazy Daze get together, and headed for the Escapees Spring Escapade being held at the Imperial Valley Expo Grounds in Imperial, California. While there, we did shopping at Costco and had dinner at Applebee's. We also had dinner at Lucky Chinese Restaurant with Ken and Debbie Toth, George Bruzenak, and Lloyd Triechel. We had a King Dome satellite dish installed, bought a Grill Guard (which Earl really likes...well worth the money), and joined Passport America. We also saw friends we haven't seen for quite a while: Ron & Anita Wilson, and John & Barbara Ragland (all New Horizons owners).

The Monday after returning from the Escapade, I took off for Parker and the LaDeze get together. As I mentioned earlier, the LaDeze is only for women Lazy Daze owners...no men allowed! The first night, we had a wine tasting and Lorna provided dinner. We had several presentations throughout the get together: tires, how to change the side mirrors, traveling to Mexico, an art lesson, gadgets, etc. I gave a presentation on traveling to Alaska. We also had dinners every night...from Lorna's dinner on the first night, to a potluck one night, and a brunch another day.