As luck would have it, we are 20+ hours drive from home and as you can see from photo….. each direction has severe storm warning 🤔. To top that off, we are at Lake Mead and the wind is howling at 20 mph. White caps….

Yesterday it was closer to 30 MPH and so we spent the whole day indoors. I should point out that we love our Motorhome and it is plenty big enough for us, however the size IS dependant on going outdoors during the day. It IS a small space to spend 24 hours.

What to do? Make sourdough….

NAP…. manoman am I ever bored….

BOOOOOOrrrrrreeeed

Or maybe work on Blog,…. 🙂

We are at Stewarts point …. a far east and north part of Lake Mead. Lake Mead is the reservoir created by the Hoover dam, and is a massive lake. It HAS been much more massive in previous years, and less massive last year when we were here.

We have been gone now for 2.5 months and are looking for a route to get home. Big storm across the west coast all the way, it seems, from Canada down into California. Apparently the Sierra Nevadas got 10 feet of snow. I am sure that Lake Mead WILL be much higher when all that snow starts to melt. But we only got wind and just a little bit of rain.

We have had a great winter, with a few exception type situations, but cannot really complain. In Fact I even have a funny story to tell about the day the transmission went in our jeep.

make no mistake it WAS a bad day…… We were going into Yuma from where we were camping, Ogilby road which is about 20 minutes drive out of Yuma. We just got into Yuma and Ken realized that he could not get the jeep in gear and with a whole lot of finagling, he managed to get the us parked right in front of a transmission lot. (most days we are off …. miles from any known roads, so at least it happened in a good place). We WERE going in to Yuma to have lunch with Kens cousin Morley and his wife Ruth. They very kindly came to pick us up while our jeep underwent “further testing”. After a wonderful lunch we came back to find out that all was good, as long as we had a spare 4900 dollars….. gulp… to spend on rebuilding the transmission….. and a week to hang around and wait for the “procedure” to be complete. SOOOOO. Morley and Ruth gave us a ride back to where our motorhome was parked. We got there and Ken realized that he had left the keys to the motorhome back in the jeep (at the transmission place in Yuma)

AND worse information, the only window that we left open was this tiny window above the sink

Ken felt quite certain he could fit through this opening (bear in mind it is only HALF of the shown window as half does not move) (I pointed this detail out to Ken, but he was STILL confident that he could get through the opening). So Morley backed his truck up to motorhome….

Now THIS is where medical knowledge comes in….in babies…. usually once the shoulders have been delivered all goes well…. and technically that may not be true for many of us……. but turns out it is true for Ken

Things look a bit iffy here…. but Ken was still quite confident.

SO the Shoulders have been delivered INTO the motorhome…….. and technically, I believe this is where I would get stuck… but not Ken…..

Now how many 69 year olds can you name who could pull this off….🤨🤨…. and slither down over the counter and onto the floor… YEA KEN

So we waited the week and got our Jeep back and headed north…. We have really enjoyed the wonderful places we have camped this year. I always am so impressed with the views, but rarely am I able to get pictures that reflect what I see. This year I DID get a few….. This is from Ogilby road, where we spent about 10 days this year.

…. and THIS ONE is another photo I got while a thunderstorm was passing. The desert is just SOOO BIG that you can get the whole half of the rainbow….

We shall see how soon we make it home and if there are any more adventures left in this trip.

Bye for now, much love Janet, Ken and the very bored Tucker dog….