We Mesquiters expect our first 100-degree day within the week.
It has been a fairly cold, dry and windy Winter and Spring. I’m not sure if we’ve had two inches of rainfall since last Fall. Amazingly, most of the vegetation in the area seems to have survived.
May and June should be relatively pleasant in terms of weather; we will have a lot of 100-degree days with low humidity. By the time the temperatures get up to 110, we should be on our way to Oregon in the RV.
Our trip there this year will be different: we will be meeting up with friends. Our neighbor Sandy Rose is going to rent a small cabin up in the Coos Bay area where we will be staying (Oceanside RV Resort in Charleston) for a week. Other neighbors, the Carnacellis, are purchasing an RV and will be joining us at Oceanside for a spell and then will meet up with us later when we stay in Brookings (Driftwood RV Park). Also, we will rendezvous with our good friends, the Quinns, up in Oregon.
All of us will be keeping cool courtesy of the wonderful Oregon coastal climate. I particularly like the 60 degree evenings; I really sleep good up there. The beach (which is right next door) is great for strolling and playing with the dogs off-leash. It is usually foggy or overcast in the morning, followed by sunshine and a sea breeze in the afternoon. It’s delightful, particularly when considering the alternative in Nevada.
Thinking ahead to the following year, we are again going to absent ourselves from the Mesquite frying pan in the really hot months (July and August) by heading east in May, visiting our son Jonathan and his family in Lexington, Kentucky, and then traversing the country to spend a couple of months in Oregon before returning to Nevada around the beginning of September 2022. That would be a 7,700 mile trip.
At least that is the plan as of today. As we’ve all learned from 2020, tomorrow isn’t guaranteed to anyone.
So, our future traveling plans will depend upon health: our own, and the soundness of the RV. We’ve spent some money this Spring repairing and rehabbing various interior items, and the rig is currently at a Freightliner shop in Hurricane, Utah undergoing some air bag leveling system repairs. Hopefully, that work will resolve some air loos issues that we’ve encountered over the past year.
We will be taking the repaired motorhome on a “test drive” to Colorado (660 miles) next week to visit our adopted 5th son, Jason Friedman. We will chill there (in Arvada, elevation 5,344’, where it snowed a few days ago!), do some hiking, and maybe sneak in a round of golf.
From mid-May until the third week in June, we will enjoy the Spring flowers, spend a lot of time in the backyard under the pergola, and wear sunscreen.
It’s fryin’ time again.