Ensenada Mex thru Indio CA
Tuesday March 10th we left Rancho Santa Inez stopping on the way at Mamma Espinosa’s for breakfast. The drive was beautiful over mountains and desert to Ensenada where we returned to Estero Beach RV resort where we had stayed on our 1st stop down.
We had a happy hour and dinner at La Terrazas Restaurant where we welcomed Jack Bowen who had had transmission trouble on the way and left his motorhome along the road to be towed in later.
Wednesday was spent gassing up and spending pesos getting ready for our entry into the States. We had our motorhome and car washed. It was DIRTY!!
In the evening we had an Ice cream social and Tom Stlamack showed my pictures on his projector before the movie of the evening “Wild Hogs”.
Thursday the Montagues and us went to Buffadora to do a little last minute shopping, Winston bought a ring and Carol found a necklace. I finally found a whale tail necklace, I wanted a whale tail pin but happily settled for the necklace. We had to be back for our fairwell diner that was moved to Ensenada from Tecate because the restaurant we were to have it at burned down. We fired up the grills and every one cooked their own meat and were provided a beautiful Mexican plate to eat our dinner on. After dinner we watched Tom Angelini’s photos and the caravan leaders presented plaques and certificates to all.
Five of us decided we would not follow the caravan to the border but would spend the extra money and take the wide toll road to Tecate, and get there before everyone else. WELL, that was a mistake! We missed the turn and ended up in Tijuana. No one wanted to cross there so we weaved our way through the city EEEYOW! And ended up in Tecate after the caravan, and 40 dollars poorer from the tolls! The border crossing went very well and we were in the Escapee park in Aguanga 2 ½ hours later.
Our friends the Kuhns were in Hawaii visiting with Bev’s daughter. We took advantage of the down time, ordering and installing a new water pump. When they got back on Tuesday we had planned a outing to Anza-Borrego state park to see the wild flowers in the desert. Unfortunately a water main broke under their shed and they had to stay home to direct the digging, We went alone and on the way we saw Tom and Judee Stalmack’s airstream motorhome parked at the Warner Springs air strip. We stopped to chat and learned that they were there to take a glider ride, so we stuck around to watch them go up, then proceeded to the desert. The flowers were beautiful but the rangers told us they were waning and some were completely gone having been eaten by worms.
Norm gave Melinda Green, a vender we met at Quartzsite, who lives in Murrieta, two massages. She came to the park twice and we bartered for jewelry. I am going to try to sell some Pandora replicas which is one of her lines. The real things are so popular and there should be a market for these beautiful fakes! She is also into buying gold and thinks we should learn more about that! I’d rather wear it.
On Thursday while Norm was giving her the second massage Lowell and I went to the Warner Springs air strip for what we thought was going to be an airplane ride over the area with a friend of Lowell’s, Kip, who is the current president of the jojoba Hills board of directors. When he showed us the plane we were going up in, gasp and said “I thought this was to be an airplane ride” he told me that was an airplane! It was the same glider the the Stalmacks had gone up in the day before. We were pulled up to 7000 feet then released to glide effortlessly through the sky over the mountains. We could see the Salton sea and Ansa Borrego to our east and should have been able to see San Deigo to the west but it was not quite clear enough to see all the way to the ocean. Kip ask me if I was up for a rollercoaster ride and I said I’d try it once. We dipped up and down and it did feel like you were on a rollercoaster which at that moment I remembered I didn’t like! I soon told him once was enough but felt proud of myself for being brave enough to try it. It was a breathtaking experience and I am grateful for the opportunity to try it.
Friday the 20th we moved to Indio staying at the elks club. We met the Stalmacks for dinner. They were staying at the Outdoor Resorts in Cathedral City.
Sat, Norm went to Desert Hot springs for a dip and I caught up on some shopping. We will be leaving the area tomorrow for Yuma.
Sun23rd
We spent the night on BLM land near Yuma and went into Algodones on Mon to get another pair of glasses The ones I got in Jan worked out fine so I decided to get a smaller pair of frames. The price is right! We also got two bowls to match the two Mexican plates we got at our fairwell dinner. A successful visit and we spent one more night in Yuma..
Wed 25th
Norm searched his hot springs book for some more western Hot springs to hit before we head East. He found one near Phonex and one in Demming NM so we are near Phonex now and he is soaking
Thur 26th -27th we parked at an escapee park in Deming NM for two days. When we pulled in it was so windy it almost blew our door off. Poor Norm, the hot spring had closed so we went shopping at a little mining town, Silver City.
Sat 28th Eastward Ho, and on to another escapee park right along Rt 10 about 100 miles into Texas. We didn’t unhook and took off for Hillsboro Airstream community for the next 2 days.
Hillsboro has many antique shops and a large outlet mall. Unfortunately a lot of the stores were closed I guess a sigh of the economy.
We checked out the park There are 88 villas, 16 very nice brick houses, and 47 open lots. There is also a terraport with about 30 RV spaces all on concrete. There are 13 villas for sale at the time and we looked at 3 of them. They are metal buildings with living quarters, storage, and a roof over the rv, rainging from 24,000 to 90000, a really good idea for someone who wants to downsize. There is a nice clubhouse, but not near the amenities we have at TR. Our two days are up tomorrow Tue 31, so if the weather cooperates we will move on. There is a region 9 rally in Waco, about 30 miles away but we will forgo it to head home.
Take care and maybe well see you soon.
Lois

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