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Yuma, Arizona, United States

We did it!!!!!

We made it to downtown Yuma by 7 a.m. this morning to view the Balloon Ascensions that started at 7:15 a.m. It was something to see. We were able to walk around on the field among the participants. It was chilly there this morning, but warm again this afternoon.

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Yuma, Arizona, United States

We have arrived in Yuma at 3:30 p.m.

The Yuma Balloon Festival begins tomorrow morning, with the first launch at 7:00 a.m. and who thinks we will be there for the first launch? On Saturday and Sunday they launch at 6:00 a.m. We decided we wanted to view these balloons way back in Texas, it was only the day before yesterday that we saw the whole schedule. We hope that we can view them from our campsite that is 7 miles out of town.

The weather here is warm, in the high 70"s today. It is very dry here, that works good on Bonnie's sinus', but, we are getting static shocks all the time.

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Marana, Arizona, United States

We found a nice park for an overnight stay. It has nice showers, wi-fi, cable TV, a heated pool and a hot tub. All for only $16.46 a night including tax. This is the cheapest park so far and definitely one of the best. It is getting warmer. Last night we swam in the outdoor heated pool.

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Silver City, New Mexico, United States

Silver City seems to be a nice town, there are a lot of small shops open downtown, including a food co-op with a storefront, a bicycle shop, motorcycle shop, etc. There are some old hippies here and a few yuppies too.

Last night we walked into town and had dinner at Nancy's Restaurant, a small Mexican place. It is the same place where Bill used to eat Breakfast on Sunday mornings. In fact, our waitress is the daughter of the waitress who was there 26 years ago.

Today we went for a long ride to the Tyrone Mine, where Bill worked on building the processing plant. Then we drove up into the Gila National Forest, over the continental divide, then back over it again. It was a beautiful drive, although a bit too cold up there for us.

It was cold here last night, our water hose froze.

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Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States

We stayed at Bonnie and Sal's on Saturday and Sunday night. We had a great time, and hope that they will come to Michigan this summer. Bonnie is still the same, we laughed a lot. Salvador is a lot of fun, we drank beer and talked a bunch. They have such a nice house, Salvador has done a lot of work on it.

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Clint, Texas, United States

This is definitely the worst campground we have stayed at. Next time we will remember and take our time to visit the shower-house before we pay. It was to dirty to use. The ground was covered with little pickers that stuck to my shoes, one even came through my shoe to poke me. Oh well, live and learn.

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Pecos, Texas, United States

Today it was warm outside and we met campers in the park who were traveling. Up until now there were a lot of workers in the campgrounds.

We have traveled 1600 kilometers since Bill reset the GPS in Indiana. We could have traveled 35,000 kilometers by the time we return home.

We drove 60-70 miles today. We passed many oil wells and a wind farm.

We stopped in Wink, TX at the Roy Orbison Museum, where he was born. It was much less than we expected. The door was locked, City Hall was a few doors down and they said that they would come down and open it for us if we wanted them to. We declined.

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Andrews, Texas, United States

Thank you to our veterans!



We are camping for free with full hookups, behind the Chamber of Commerce building. Bill was able to connect to wi-fi with his antenna. This is a great free camping place. We walked down to the City Lake and around it, about a mile, that is a good start for us. It was full of ducks, one swan and one white duck with a puff of white down on top of its' head.



There is a Veteran's Memorial next to the C of C office. It is quite impressive, we took some pictures. The C of C building is surrounded with American Flags for Veteran's Day.
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El Reno, Oklahoma, United States

Free camping with full hook-up at the edge of the parking lot. We had a fun time in the casino, they gave us each a $10 coupon to gamble the first night. We managed to win $52 the first night. On Tuesday it was ladies day and Bonnie received another $10 coupon. We won another $100 on Tuesday. With the winnings, Bill bought a converter to enable us to plug in the computer while going down the road. On Tuesday we took a ride on the scooter, stopped for lunch, and when we came out the scooter would not start. Now we have to get it fixed. Fortunately there was a surplus store next door for us to waste some time hoping the scooter would star if we waited, it didn't. Bill hitchhiked back to the Casino to get the truck, Bonnie waited with the scooter.
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Lubbock, Texas, United States

We pulled into the RV spot and the people next to us had a scooter. Bill asked him if there was anyone in Lubbock who worked on scooters. Our scooter was built in China and Bill has been unable to get anyone to work on it. Well low and behold the neighbor was a mechanic and said he could fix it. That was Saturday, so on Monday morning, Bill took the scooter to his shop and on Tuesday he was able to fix it. So far it is still running and hopefully will run for a long time now. It was an electrical problem and very hard to find.
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