Halloween was our last day in California.

Hi friends and family,

(Happy Birthday Susan!)

Halloween was our last day in California.

Happy Halloween from Palm Springs!!!  We started off our day hoping to have a last breakfast at our favorite place; the Rock Garden Cafe.  It has closed and is for sale. On our last visit there, the owner had mentioned retirement, so we are not sure what actually happened, but we have our memories.

From there we decided to take our last hike in the Indian Canyons, but because of the recent hard rains, the entire area was closed.  Sad!  But, again we have our memories and pictures from many prior visits.

We then decided to take a walk in the downtown area of Palm Springs and enjoyed a wonderful cup of coffee at a sidewalk cafe that is still alive and well. 

There is a beauty here that no other community has and we feel so lucky to have lived in Palm Springs at one time and to have had a final walk, lunch and a cool drink before saying goodbye.

Boo!

Yvon decided he didn't want to drink any more...

But, he's not going to drink any less.

Memories from the canyons

Ultra wide angle

Looking back from the canyon towards Palm Springs

You can check in any time you want, but you can never leave...

but we did.

There must be thousands of these wind mills in the Palm Springs area.

One great landmark that is still here!

Last rest area in Cali

That's one strange RV.

Checking out our next stop on the map before Phoenix

Beautiful rest area in Arizona

Until next year...

Miss you Cali!

Desert Valley R.V. Resort

Fantastic visit to these ancient ruins

Casa Grande, meaning Great House

Built by the Ancestral Native people from the cultural period called 

Hohokam.  " First Masters of the American Desert."

Ancient Art Work still preserved by the park.

Small model shows what the ruins once may have looked like. It was four stories high and 60 feet long, with a platform mound filling the first floor. It is the largest known structure of the Ancestral People of the Sonoran Desert.

This gives you a clear picture of how big the Casa Grande is.

The beauty of the Sonoran Desert is everywhere.

Tomorrow may be a day of relaxing by the pool area and visiting with the many R.V. travelers that are spending the winter here.

Thanks for visiting again,

Anne & Yvon

Finally left Victorville (No Regrets) and travelling across the Country.

Hi everyone,

My email: brqyvn@gmail.com

It took us a little over a Month to wrap-up our business in Victorville. We left Wednesday and hopefully will never have to go back. Victorville is looking good...in my rear view mirror.

Good Bye Victorville. I'll think of you as a fading bad dream.

We traveled South from there and stopped in Temecula for the night. We stayed at Pechanga RV resort and Casino. That was a super nice campground. The service was impeccable. They had shuttles that would bring you to the Casino, or even to the Grocery store. People were friendly and although we were there two days only, we will come back on our way to Palm Springs.

We were surrounded by half a million dollar RV's, but we are proud of our fifth wheel.

  

About 28K for our truck and fifth wheel plus a lot of hard work fixing both to our taste, versus 360K for the bus next door. That's 12 times more expensive and we both can go to the same places. You don't have to be a millionaire to Full Time RVing.

I haven't been feeling that free for my whole life.

Anne looks like she's taking her new life pretty well.

This is the day we bought the fifth wheel, July of 2012.

This is the day we left Victorville, a little over one year after purchasing it; New decals, new tires and wheels, new position lights, newly painted rocker panels, all new white plastic yellowed accessories, and about 10 coats of wax. We did a lot more to the inside, but that's for another day.

Our ultimate reason for this blog, is that we want to show that you can retire with a limited budget and still enjoy what the Rich people enjoy. We will share the places we visit, stories and challenges we encounter, interviews with some of the nice people we meet, and plenty in images taken with my precious Pentax photographic equipment.

Old and new friends and family, you can find out where we are at all times.

Next stop: San Diego, California.

Thanks for reading,

Anne and Yvon Bourque