We are in Palm Desert!

On April 8th we made the move to the Palm Springs Thousand Trails which is actually in Palm Desert. We will be here for 5 days.

Here is our site #5 at Thousand Trails. We are on the 30 amp side of the park because we can use the JTB power solutions that Bill Gehr installed for the magazine article and also plug into the amp on the pedestal.

Site 5

We prefer the 30 amp side over the 50 amp side because the 30 amp side are pull through sites. The 50 amp sites are tighter back-in sites with more date palm trees and can be difficult to get satellite reception. With the JTB we truly have our choice here, even when it is HOT!

The Sam's Club here has a GREAT Jerky that is only $6.98 for an 8 oz. bag. I have not found it anywhere else but at THIS Sam's Club. We are not members now that we are full timers, but Sam's allows you to buy twice a year with a coupon you can get online. With Patty and I each getting the coupon we can go 4 times a year. I stock up on the jerky when I am in town! :)

Sam's Jerky

When we are in town we make Southwest Church our home church. Nothing compares to New Life of course, but we are still blessed here. We find that it would be a mistake to try and compare our home church to others while we are on the road! We would be missing blessings if we did that! Each church is unique and we need to be open to God's leading.

Southwest Church in Palm Desert

We were leaving to Ehrenberg, Az on the Colorado River on Sunday morning. We normally don't travel on Sundays, but because of us leaving Ventura a week late we are having to make up some time. Southwest Church has Saturday night services so we attended then so we could leave Sunday morning.

Early Saturday evening the winds came up. I don't know if this would classify as a haboob, but it was a terrible dust storm! You could not see 100 yards!

Dust Storm

Sand was just in the air. The wind was blowing each way. It was not necessarily blowing east or west. The trailer was not rocking from the wind. It was weird. The trailer stayed clean inside, so it is pretty air tight. Good to know. In the morning the Asphalt you see on the road was all dirt!

Here is our truck. You can see the road behind the truck is covered with dirt.

Dirt everywhere!

It was a fine dust. As you drove even slowly the dust just blew off. Of course it will take a good wash job to really get rid of the dust film.

As we drove the trailer away, it looked like smoke was coming off of it.

We will have the truck and trailer washed again when we get to Cottenwood, Az.

Well that's it for today.

God Bless you all,

Brian and Patty