December 18, 2005

December 18, 2005

Yuma, Arizona

YEAR 2 DAY 184

 

Today was cloudy and cool. We've been on the road for a year and a half, travelling over 49,000 kilometres.

This morning I did some travel accounting and records keeping ( see above ). Then I did a bit of minor maintenance on the propane tanks. We set off for a visit to Imperial Date Gardens in Bard, California, about 15 miles northwest of Yuma. We drove through Yuma, across the Colorado River into California, then on Hwy. S24 alongside lettuce farms in the Bard Valley to Imperial Date Gardens. The "gardens" are a large grove of very tall Date Palms. Quite attractive. First thing we did when we got there was buy a date milkshake to share as we shopped in their retail outlet. It was delicious ! We bought 2 types of honey, some date butter for making milkshakes, date pastries, and of course, a bag of their fresh Medjool dates. MMMMM ! We drove back to Yuma, and stopped at Fry's for some groceries.

Back at Kofa Co-op we had lunch. I bought a Sunday newspaper and read it for awhile before falling asleep for an afternoon nap. In Canada the huge newspaper of the weekend is Saturday, but here in the United States it's Sunday. When I woke, we went outside, got the ladder out of the "basement" pass through storage compartment, retracted the slides, and finished up the cleaning and waxing of the trailer by doing the areas over the slides. We forgot about those areas the other day, and had already folded and put away the ladder. I did today's accounting, then started working on today's journal entry.

Joanne got a roast started, then we went to the park's regular Sunday evening ice cream social. Afterwards, while Joanne finished preparing supper, I wrote postcards. We send 5 post cards every 3 months, to the last two PET VALU stores we owned in Ottawa, our Ottawa doctor, Joanne's breast cancer exercise class, and friends who own a PET VALU store in Kingston, Ontario, the Malleys.

We had a great, traditional Sunday night pot roast dinner. We watched a bit of TV, and read the newspaper. When Joanne was finished washing dishes, the kitchen grey water tank was full. I went out late in the evening and drained it. It usually requires emptying only every 5 days. It was filled a day early.

DSK