Winter Trip - 2010

Sunday, Jan 10th, Jim and I started out on our winter trip to find warmer weather. Our first stop was Gaffney, SC. Jim had an appointment with Freightliner to have our RV serviced. It is still cold here 43 degrees but at least it is warmer than Virginia's 19 degrees. They have a very nice lounge here with WiFi so I have spent the morning cleaning up my emails. I sure was behind. Jim has spent the morning on the phone pestering GARMIN with hundreds of questions regarding his new GARMIN GPS that he got for Christmas. By the way, we made it to Gaffney yesterday with FOUR GPS ladies telling us what turns to make. I have one, Jim got a new one, and the motorhome came with one and of course Jim still has his old GARMIN IQ that he can't bear to let go. It was comical when a turn came up and all 4 GARMINS starting yelling out directions! Anyway from Gaffney we are heading west on I20 to I10. Our first destination is Quartzite, AZ for two weeks. Quartzite is west of Phoenix off of I10 near the Colorado River. It is located in the Sonoran Desert. It currently has a population of approx. 3650. But Oct-Mar there is a big RV festival in the desert and the population goes up to approx. 1.5 million people. We are told it is a must do for RVers. We've traveled thru Quartzite before and I wasn't too impressed but Jim has assured me it will look quite different with thousands of RVers attending this festival. We'll see. From Quartzite we will head to Las Vegas, NV. We are hoping that Jim's brother, Mason and his wife Judy will join us for a weekend. We plan on staying for 2 weeks and are looking forward to it. Our son, David used to live here and we enjoyed spending time with him, but he is now back in VA so it looks like we will be on our own on this trip. You know what they say, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas so with no son to supervise our visit -- who knows what we'll get in to. It would be nice to hit a jackpot or two!! From Las Vegas we plan on heading to San Jose, CA to visit my aunt and cousins. From CA we will head for Harlingen, TX. There we plan on meeting up with friends and doing a little shopping in Mexico. After Harlingen we will do two weeks with Habitat for Humanity somewhere in Texas, Louisiana or Georgia and then head home.