CIBOLA NWR 5.
Day 125 – We’ve been gone from home in NY for slightly over 4 months now. We’ve spent the last month in Arizona. Tomorrow we cross the border into California. We’ll be doing a major restocking of food and supplies while we are there, in addition to visiting friends and family.
Continue readingPETE GOES KAYAKING.
Day 124 – Pete has become quite the kayaking dog! He had an exciting paddle today and behaved like a champ. The high today was 85 degrees. We went out in our kayaks with Cathie and Pete in the morning before it got too hot. It was perfect out at that time.
Continue readingCIBOLA NWR 4.
Day 123 – It was a hot one today – 85 degrees, sunny without much of a breeze. We took a couple of drives – having the windows down helped with the heat. We went into the small town of Palo Verde to get gas in the Honda – $5.39 per gallon! Yikes!
Continue readingHAPPY SECOND BIRTHDAY, CHARLOTTE!
CIBOLA NWR 3.
Day 122 – The high today was 82 degrees, sunny with a nice breeze. We spent the morning working on reservations for the next portion of our trip. Many places were booked up. We successfully found a couple of places to stop over between this campground and southern California.
Continue readingCIBOLA NWR 2.
Day 121 – The high today was 83 degrees with full sun. It cools off rapidly as soon as the sun goes down but is warm enough to not use the heat most nights. And most of the time there is a nice breeze. Spring appears to have already arrived here. During the day, a Hawk replaced the Heron in the tree outside our RV – guess it’s a great viewing point of the water below.
CIBOLA NWR 1.
Day 120 – This morning we went to Cibola National Wildlife Refuge; we saw lots of birds in 2018 when we were here previously and hoped to do the same this year. Today we were there about 2 hours and had only gone about 1/10 of this section of the Refuge because we spent lots of time on the 1-mile hiking trail. Were we successful? Yep.
Continue readingTRAVEL DAY
From: Desert View RV Resort, Needles, CA.
To:Oxbow Recreation Area BLM Campground – Cibola National Wildlife Refuge, Cibola, AZ.
Day 119 – We departed Desert View RV Resort at 9 a.m. (Pacific Standard Time) and drove south near the California/Arizona border for most of the trip, crossing back into AZ (and Mountain Standard Time) right before reaching our destination near the Cibola National Wildlife Refuge.
WE JUST CAN’T MAKE UP OUR MINDS!
Day 141 – Beginning of Week 21. Rob was up at 6:15 a.m.; I got up at 6:45. 44 degrees and sunny, but a little haze. We didn’t want to hang out too long because we had the potential of a long drive ahead of us today. This was a really good campground, and the environment here was excellent for us to unwind. We really appreciated being so close to the NWR since we visited so many times. We hope to find more of the same.
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BIRDING 101, THE LIFE & TIMES OF A BIRDER.
Day 140 – Another beautiful, clear night – the sky full of stars. This place could grow on you. 6:30 a.m., sunny, 38 degrees. The girls were quite the group of rambunctious kitties, running from one end of the RV to the other, and dragging along the toys that Ron, Sophie, & Maple gave them. Wee Haw!
Day 139 – Okay, so I’m re-evaluating my initial opinions of the desert. I’m totally a tree-hugger & really had no desire to travel through or stay at desert sites, thinking they were just barren, flat, sandy places of no color other than shades of dry brown. Wrong. We paid the campground hosts for an additional 2 nights, and we may stay longer than that, who knows? (The same thing happened when I was dreading the so-called flat & boring middle States. Wrong again. Not all flat and certainly not all boring. The U.S.A. has so much diversity and variety to discover. Slap me silly next time I am Captain Bringdown saying I don’t want to go here or there!) We love it here.