Getting Ready to Head to the Southwest

Preparations for our 2011 travels in the southwest have begun.

The Molly II has 3/4 of her skirt off and stored. Several bins of supplies not needed in the southwest are now in storage. Cabinets have been cleaned out of unnecessary items. The tool chests have been prioritized. The propane tanks are filled (and will be topped off before we leave.) Mail forwarding has been scheduled. And numerous other tasks are almost completed.

Larry will be received into Boise Presbytery on February 5, then we leave for Pahrump, Nevada on Sunday, the 6th, pulling the Molly II to Jackpot, NV, for the night and then on to Ely, NV for a second night, and then it's on into Pahrump, located 40 miles west of Las Vegas. Pahrump only got electricity in 1963. It's located on the edge of Death Valley and we will take some extended trips into the desert. My favorite golf course in just outside of Pahrump -- the Mountain Falls Golf Course. Beautiful landscaping, luscious fairways and greens and lots of sandy roughs and traps. A lake guards to 18th green. Toughest hole of the course and in a dozen rounds there last year I only parred the hole twice.

Our dear friends, Floyd and Rubye, are meeting us in Pahrump. Will be wonderful to see them again and do some things together.

After a month in Nevada, we will head on down to southern Arizona to the Desert Gold RV Resort in Salome, AZ. Come April we're not sure where we might go (though we know we are not heading east this year.) Likely, we will move into northern Arizona to see friends and then into a portion of California.

My brother David and wife Beth will be in Vegas in mid-April and we hope to see them while they are there.

We will return to Idaho in mid-July.

We have enjoyed a six month stay here in the Boise, Idaho area, specifically parked at Ambassador RV Resort in Caldwell, ID. We've had some wonderful times with our granddaughters, Emily and Molly; we've volunteered at West Canyon Elementary (where daughter Anna teaches), at the Boise Rescue Mission, and at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Boise where Helen, Anna and the girls are members and where we all worship. We flew to New York for Christmas with Todd and his kids -- Erica, Aaron, Ollie, Graham and Audrey -- great time there in the snow. Larry played golf weekly with buddies here until the snow and cold set in. (That Mississippi bayou boy is looking forward to some warm/hot weather!) We've both read dozens of novels when nestled in front of our fireplace.

Now it's time to move into the southwest. New travelling adventures await us.