Good Morning on February 9, 2010. This should have been posted last night, but couldn't get any signal last night. I am only posting a writing at this point. Can't load the pictures at this time, with the signal problem it takes too long to try to get one picture downloaded. Some real good pictures.

We traveled to Oatman, Arizona yesterday. We had visited this area 10 years when we were in Arizona. This is a very old mining town. Nothing much has changed in the structure of the buidings since the mining time. You travel 25 miles through desert and beautiful mountain area. At a later time I will download some pictures of this area. Ate at a old saloon and shopped in the stores.

Not planning anything for today. Sunny weather, but expecting rain later today and tomorrow. Seems like most of the USA is having problems with rain/snow issues. We would rather have the rain.

For the third time I'll try to send this. LOL

I'm finally back on the blog. At one point since being on we didn't have much going on. Spent time with neighbors in the park, had happy hours and outside cookouts with them. Nice time, exchanged email address. One couple is from British Columbia the other from upstate California - near where my Aunt Vena lived. They are hoping that we return to that resort next year at the same time. Time will tell.

We left that resort yesterday and we are in Lake Havasu City, AZ for the next two weeks, which is only 90 miles from where we left yesterday and still along the Colorado River. Not sure how much computer usage I'll have. Yesterday had trouble getting on-line but thought it might be the weather. It was very cloudy and rains moving in and out. This morning more blue skies with little white clouds.

Was noticing yesterday that the NASCAR Dayota 500 race starts at noon in EST and PST at 9:00a.m. So we can see it at 10:00 a.m.. Seems really odd to start watching it in the morning. Wish I knew when they actually start racing.

Not much happening yesterday and today.

I did find I have a very helpful doctor's office in Milan. I knew I had bladder infection yesterday. Called the doctor's office and after a few calls back and forth they called a prescription to a Rite Aid store here. So doing fine with five days of medicine to take.

Today we did the laundry again. But after that we were very relaxed out in the sun on our concrete patio. The temperature here is probably around 70 degrees. But the sun is very warm and the sky is very blue.

We had a very full day today. We left here this morning and drove about one hour into California.

We went to Joshua Tree National Park. We knew they had a tree there by that name, but otherwise wasn't sure what we'd see. It was very interesting. It probably took us about three hours to drive through this park, stopping in some areas to read the signs. The different types of cactus, mountains, and just sites.

We also stopped at General Patton's memorial Museum. We seen a film showing that he had started the training center here to train the guys in the army in order for them to fight in the weather conditions in Africa and overseas. It was very interesting.

This is the beginning of the Joshua Tree National Park.

This is a blossom on a Cholla Cactus.

This is the Cholla Cactus. They say don't touch or even let clothes touch the cactus because it will just grab hold. If it gets into the skin it is very hard and painful to get it out. They had what they called a path through the Cholla Cactus Garden, so you had to be careful.