Graduation and Heading Out

June is coming. What happens in June? Well, our oldest grandson, Justin, will be graduating from high school and also be receiving his Associates Degree from the local college. We got a reminder of this when his graduation pictures were sent. Isn’t he one fine looking fella?

He needs someone to pay for the rest of his education. He's decided to let the Navy do it. So, after graduating it's "Anchors Away" for a few years.

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We’ve had a great time reuniting with friends in Yuma. It’s been a real busy time too. The reunion is nearly over and people are heading out in all directions. It’s fun to sit and listen to past travels and future destinations. After all, that’s where the ideas come from for the next trip. Well, sometimes it does. Some places we actually refuse to visit and other places we just may want to visit. If you’re in Arizona in January, it’s hard to want to venture too far or you might encounter a little ice, a little snow and definitely much colder weather.

We had four rigs pull out on Friday and by Monday just about everyone will be gone from our meeting grounds. Some of the folks who are pulling out have decided to stop by Quartzsite. This is the time of year that the little town of just a few thousand hosts their annual RV event which brings in several hundred thousand RVs. The place really is hopping in January with all the vendors, displays and events.

Others are heading on to Lake Havasu, the Slabs by the Salton Sea and some are even sticking around Yuma a while. Well, that is other than, Joe. Joe seems to think that the place to head is California and then on up north to the state of Washington. I think it’s a little early to be going too far north but then again, Joe’s a big boy. He can make his own plans.

Where are we heading? Well, we’re still trying to decide that. The first thing we want to do is go to a park with full hookups to clean out the sand and grit that we’ve accumulated dry camping. We have nothing in mind and our plan is to move on Sunday. With all the snowbirds and RV’ers in Yuma, many places are full. Oh well, I guess we’ll have to cross that bridge when we come to it but we’re not far down the road from that bridge now.

After that …. well, we’ll probably hang around Yuma for a few days, up to Quartzsite for a few more and possibly on to Palm Springs and back to San Diego. Or, we could even head towards the hill country in Texas. The problem with going east is that it’s COLD that direction. It’s hard to let you know where we’re going when we don’t even know ourselves. I’ll tell you though that it sure would be nice to sit on a beach with my feet dangling in the salt water. The more I think of that, the more I like the idea.

Even though our group is getting smaller and smaller, we’re still eating lots, enjoying the company and burning up the last of the wood in the evening campfires.

Things have been good and weather is perfect.