Havasu Lake California, Tonopah Arizona, Wilcox Arizona and Las Cruces New Mexico, Balmorhea State Park Texas and Schertz Texas.

  Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! It's been a while so I apologize. We have been in several places since we last talked on the 11th, so I'll go over the some of the highlights.

  While in the Barstow area we did manage to do a little sight seeing. I know, some of you are thinking "aren't Barstow and sight seeing mutually inexclusive?", they are not. We went to see the Calico Ghost Town. An actual old mining camp with a few of the building still standing. We had a fun afternoon going through the stores and exhibits.

  From Barstow we headed towards Havasu Lake California, which I'm sure you can guess is across the lake from Lake Havasu City Arizona. This was a very nice park right on the lake. Actually it was Havasu Landing Resort and Casino. The weather was very nice and Wonder loved walking on the beach so we stayed a few more days.

  Since we were so close we took the ferry across the lake to Lake Havasu City to see the sites there or at least the site there. For those of you who don't know it is the home of the original London Bridge. It was bought in the late 50s and brought over piece by piece and reconstructed here. The story is much more exciting than the actual site, but at least we can say we've seen London Bridge, and contrary to popular belief and song it is NOT falling down.

  After Havasu it was a series of one night stands, beginning with Tonopah Arizona,  which is as big as it sounds. We stayed at the Saddle Mountain RV Park which was a good park with all the needed amenities. Wilcox Arizona was our next stop, landing at the Fort Wilcox RV Park, a much smaller park but not very crowded. The best part being the camp hostess sold pies that she had made from scratch, we bought an apple and a cherry and they were both delicious! From there we headed to Las Cruces New Mexico and the Sunny Acres RV Park, not in the best part of town but serviceable for a one nighter. The next morning we were in Texas again! By afternoon we stopped at the first state park we've been in since Alabama.  Balmorhea State Park is home to the largest spring fed swimming. It's 1.75 acres of the clearest water, part of the pool is 20' deep and although the sides of the pool were concrete the bottom was natural but it was still crystal clear. The water temperature stays around 76 degrees year round. It was only in the low 70s weather wise when we arrived so we passed on swimming but others were in the pool.

  Now some of you may remember our issue with the washer connections not being connected to anything but the washer, so a few few days earlier we contacted an Evergreen dealer in New Braunfuls Texas about doing the warranty work to finish the connections. We told them what the issue was and that since we lived in the RV we needed the work done in one day. After a couple of phone calls and an email with photos of the problem we were told to be there Thursday morning and they'd take care of us. YEAH! Nothing is EVER that simple. So after leaving Balmorhea on Wednesday morning we were in Schertz Texas about 10 miles south of the dealership on Wednesday evening. Bright and early the next morning we take the RV to the dealer who, only after we unhook it from the truck and are about to leave for a few hours, tells us they won't get to it today and we'd have to leave it with them. To say we were pissed is an understatement.  We promptly hooked back up and left. When we got back to the RV park we decided to go another route and started calling mobile rv repair companies that would come to us to do the work. We knew that we may not get all of the bill paid for under the warranty because an Evergreen dealer was not doing the work but by this time we didn't care. We found a guy who could come out that same afternoon. It was after 4 when he got there and by the time he figured out the best way to complete the work it was after 5. He told us he had a roofing job the next morning but would be here early afternoon to do the work. The next day it rained off an on all day, and by 3:30 our guy was still not there. At 6 his brother calls to say the weather has really slowed them down, could they come in the morning? That didn't work for us because we were due in Mission Texas that afternoon. So close and yet so far. Which pretty much brings you the reader up to date. We are here in Mission Texas at the Mission Bell RV Resort. We will be here until the 20th of December when we'll head towards the DFW area for Christmas with family and some doctors appointment. As far as the washer goes, we have another guy coming Monday to take care of it, he's already been here to survey the work, so hopefully by Tuesday we can do our laundry without having to leave the camper with a bag of quarters.