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Apr 29

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California Dreaming

April Snow in the Eastern Sierras (click on photo to enlarge)

Driving up Pine Creek Road

Before leaving for Bishop, CA, our final days in Lake Havasu City were relaxing.

Jan’s Art Class via Zoom

CALIFORNIA HEAT

While our relatives back in the Midwest brave the seasonal Spring storms, we’re suffering through an unseasonal heat wave. When we arrived mid-April, temperature high/lows were in the 60s/40s. Then a switch was flipped, and temps climbed to 80s/60s.

Southwest Heat Wave

CALIFORNIA COVID

Bishop is in Inyo County which currently has a low COVID-19 infection rate, especially when compared to the surrounding counties.

That’s good because in Inyo County’s 10,000 square miles there are only two hospitals with under a dozen intensive care beds. We think about this things now.

Infection Oasis

CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE

At 5:10 am today we woke up suddenly as our over 31,000 pound motorhome swayed as if it had been hit by a violent wind gust.

It was a magnitude 3.9 earthquake located about a mile away (USGS Data).

Our First Earthquake

WHAT’S THAT IN THE SKY?

Apr 4

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Besides that, Mrs Lincoln . . .

A few weeks ago I was going to do a write up of our experience putting two new tires on our RV, but, Geez Louise, a “few things” have popped up in the interim. THE PLAGUE!!!

I was waiting for things to “settle down”, but that doesn’t appear to be happening anytime soon, so . . .

February 1

Boat Fire

Imagine, this was a newsworthy event here two months ago.

February 8

Brush Fire

They’ve nuked Havasu! Turns out it was a “controlled burn”.

February 12

During our Jeep ride to Kingman to pick up our RV with its newly installed two front tires, we ran over this . . .

Tire Killer

It took out our rear passenger tire in short order. I was able to replace the tire pretty quickly, but I had an incredibly stupid thought while doing it . . . I thought the flat tire would be much lighter because all the air was out of it. Wow!

Through the Tire and into the Plastic Fender

March 16

And then it started . . .

Paper products?

Social Distancing

Scoring TP Online — Don’t be jealous. It’s single ply (at best), so one roll per poop.

Everyone’s Wearing Gloves and Masks

March 24

The campground Honey Wagon collapses. These things work by suction so what sort of turd plugged its straw?

Honey Wagon Implodes

March 29

Autoformer installation. Basically, I just moved our RV autoformer inside the electrical compartment. I also added a couple of plugs so that I could reroute incoming power in case of component failure. (By the way, autoformers are used to “boost” low campground voltage. Typically, this happens in summer when everyone is using their air conditioners.)