Nov 6
Ah!
Lake Havasu living.
We left Bishop, CA last Tuesday. Then we stayed in a campground in Hesperia, CA for a night and took our motorhome to Colton Truck Terminal in Colton, CA for our yearly servicing.
We left Colton on Wednesday and stayed overnight in a Palm Desert campground.
Finally, we arrived in Lake Havasu on Thursday . . . we’ve been moving back in for the last few days.
Here’s how Flirt handled the journey . . .
Oct 30
We’re getting ready to leave Bishop and return to Lake Havasu, but we just had to take one more drive up the mountains.
Saturday was a perfect day for the drive — low cloud deck and clear skies.
By the way, we used a photo taken from our drive as the new header image on each of our web pages. The photo shows Mount Tom taken from Line Road outside of Bishop.
Here are a couple of movies from our trip plus bonus footage of Flirt in the local dog park . . .
Oct 2
Bishop to Mammoth Lakes Trip (click to enlarge)
About a week ago we drove to Mammoth Lakes with our friends Bev, Herb, and Katy the dog to check out the Earthquake Fault in the Inyo National Forest.
We also took our dog Flirt along who enjoyed it enormously.
Here are some photos from our trip (click on a photo for slideshow) . . .
Sep 29
Full time RVers under age 65 (pre-Medicare) who have to purchase their own health insurance, really need a PPO health plan with a nationwide network of doctors, hospitals, clinics, etc.
Because if you’re traveling around the country in an RV, it’s not practical to return to your home state every time you need to see a doctor. (If you’re over 65 and on Medicare, your health care plan works in every state.)
Also, just because a health plan is called a PPO doesn’t mean the plan has a national provider network. Make sure your PPO plan has a national provider network. Typically this means a Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) health plan.
In fact a national provider network is probably more important that the plan type (PPO). For example, currently BCBS offers EPO plans in Florida that provide a national provider network. Always look at the plan details!
So if you’re under 65 and need to buy your own health insurance, you basically have 3 options:
For Option 1 (Obamacare), here are the states with PPO plans for 2015-2016:
These plans will be changed on January 1, 2017. Remember, not all PPO plans offer nationwide networks.
What do CalFire (California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection) and KPOP (Korean Pop music) have in common?
Nothing.
It’s just that both are on my radar now.
CalFire
These are the folks who put out all those CA fires. We’ve only been in CA two summers, but there are a lot of fires — big ones — out here.
In the Midwest where we grew up, it was tornadoes. Out West, it’s fires.
The latest is the Owens River Fire just north of us in Mammoth Lakes. A few days ago it was a 500-acre fire, now it’s 5400 acres. We typically don’t learn about local fires from the news, but from our nose — we smell smoke. Last summer the smoke was as thick as fog from one fire. So far this year, not so bad.
This photo is of several CalFire vehicles in the parking lot of a Bishop hotel and restaurant.
KPOP
Black Pink is the name of a KPOP group I’ve been following since 2012. They just debuted and they’re killing it.
They released two music videos — Boombayah and Whistle — both of which have multi-million YouTube views.
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