Pat sent me an email which read “72 blogs in 2009 and nothing yet in 2010??? What's happening in your world??”
We have been living on BLM land, which is Bureau of Land Management land where we can park our RV for two weeks in one location before moving 25 miles or more to another location. When we do this, we do not have hook-ups. Without electricity, I can’t spend hours choosing photos and writing on the computer. We do have lights, TV, a stove for cooking, refrigerator and hot water but we use propane and solar power.
Why would we choose to live like this? We camp at CRA (Colorado River Adventure) where we need to be out of the system for one week before we can return for two weeks. We were out of the system at the beginning of January. We only stayed five days at the Yuma CRA Campground before we went to Quartzsite and camped with 134 RVs at a BLM spot called Boomerville. I also went to the Readers Oasis Bookstore to sell my RV books.
Betty Prange led a writers group in Boomerville on Saturday, January 16, 2010 in our RV. Using the writer guidelines of Natalie Goldberg from her book, “Writing Down the Bones,” we wrote using the words “They loved the surprise.” The surprises were all different but delightful. Introductions were given as we exchanged what type of writing each of us is doing along with our future goals.
Why would we choose to live like this? We camp at CRA (Colorado River Adventure) where we need to be out of the system for one week before we can return for two weeks. We were out of the system at the beginning of January. We only stayed five days at the Yuma CRA Campground before we went to Quartzsite and camped with 134 RVs at a BLM spot called Boomerville. I also went to the Readers Oasis Bookstore to sell my RV books.
Betty Prange led a writers group in Boomerville on Saturday, January 16, 2010 in our RV. Using the writer guidelines of Natalie Goldberg from her book, “Writing Down the Bones,” we wrote using the words “They loved the surprise.” The surprises were all different but delightful. Introductions were given as we exchanged what type of writing each of us is doing along with our future goals.
On January 21, 2010, the writers group met at the fire pit in Boomerville and quickly adjourned to the Miller RV because of the wind and spitting rain. Jaimie spoke to us about the new
e-book, which is a guide for beginning fulltimers that she and Alice are writing. George read us his short story, which he named “The Prospector.” After rolling up the carpets, and bringing the slide- in inside the RV, Terry took photos of the windblown and damp group. You can see the difference the slide out makes since we had much more room with the slide out expanded.
Later in the afternoon, the worst storm that hit the area in 20 years, pelted rain and wind throughout Quartzsite. Our weather gauge measured 3.84 inches of rain in one hour. Wind gusts up to 80 MPH were reported in the little desert town. Fortunately, Boomerville received only a lost windsock, a missing front rug and a torn topper over a slide-out RV.
The storm was also a blessing since we didn’t have dust and in March the cactus will have more flowers in bloom.
2 comments:
Welcome back, Darlene! We missed you. Keep on wiritng, books, blogs, articles, whatever.
Thanks for hosting the writing exercises in your rig. I always love to hear the variety of responses to each topic. It is very inspiring.
That was quite a storm on Thursday night!
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