Well, we spent 2 nights in Hesperia, CA just south of Victorville, and about a couple hours northwest of Desert Hot Springs. Found a nice campsite called Desert Willow, near lots of stores and just barely off US 395. They have pull through sites which makes it easier for us to park and camp. Lots of permanent folks living there in the campsite.
Spent a couple of lazy days there, cruising stores and putzing around. They had an International House of Pancakes and Marie Callendars, both restaurants that we enjoy. Highlight of our visit was 2 trips to Walmart and a trip to Super Target. We don't get out much!!!!! Too cool to use the pool though. It's kind of high desert there.
Only took us a couple of hours today to get to Desert Hot Springs, to Catalina Spa Resort where we are members. Didn't take us long at all to hit the pool and hot tub. Temps in the high 70s during the daytime, gotta like that, but at sunset, around 4:45 PM or so, the temps go down very quickly once the sun disappears.
Big wrinkle in our plans was that we had to show Lary's drivers license when we arrived here and checked in, OH OH!!!!!! both his and Di's licenses expire this year on our birthdays, that means, in December!!!!!. We hadn't even checked them before leaving home. Of course we checked the passports for expiry dates, but not the drivers licenses. Drat.
So Lary has made plans to fly home via Westjet this weekend, into Vancouver, and then renew the license on Monday, and fly back. Thankfully Westjet flies into Palm Springs, though on the way to Nanaimo he has to go from P.Springs to Calgary, sleep overnight in the airport, then leave Calgary early the following AM for Vancouver, then catch the rapid transit train, then the bus and then the ferry to get home to the island. Ah me, island living.
Di will renew her license later, it's not quite so critical. When he comes back, the timings work better, and he flies direct from Vancouver to Palm Springs, though he may end up spending an overnight in Vancouver airport, due to a somewhat early departure that Tuesday morning. How daft can we be?
This is the Thanksgiving week, I think kids may be off school in the U.S., and we have already booked our Thanksgiving Dinner here in the campground at the upper clubhouse, $10 each for turkey and all the trimmings, hope it is nice. The early dinner is way too early, the late sitting is 4 PM. Hmmm.
The campsite seems to be about 1/2 empty at the moment, it may fill up later after Thanksgiving, we're not sure. We want to extend here once our first 2 weeks are up, and pay for our "out week", so that in the end we will be here 5 weeks consecutively, and not leave til Dec. 28th or so. Being members it costs us $5 per night, and it's really a nice campground, for us both it feels like home with tons of stuff to do.
That's about it for now, Lary is happy because he will be able to watch the Grey Cup now at home or in Canada. It might not be shown down here on t.v.
He said he would have watched it on our computer, we have WiFi here in the park, and the external antenna, G-Sky that we bought last winter is serving us well this trip, too. We have WiFi in our trailer, and the external antenna makes it much faster.
That's it for now.
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