Today we left the Happy Traveler RV Park that we spent the month of January in and moved to our new location at the Outdoor RV Resort, in Cathedral City. We have not had to move the rig in over thirty days so it was a real change of pace for us, having to pack up everything move eight miles down the road and set up again. We will be here until March 3rd and then we head back to the coast. I will write more about Outdoor tomorrow and will be better at posting pictures in the future.
This is dedicated to the last couple of weeks we spent at Happy Traveler. We had lots of company the last couple of weeks and that's the main reason I haven't been posting...too busy.
Larry and Rose were here for a few days and we met up with Paul and Michele, who we had met at Larry and Rose's wedding last year. Carol drove over and spent Thursday through Sunday of last week with us. Unfortunately Mark had to work and could not make the trip. Ed and Pat arrived in their Lazy Daze for a week and they were parked across from us.
We went to "Village Fest" on Thursday night and met Betty & Ken, friends of Pat & Ed's that have a place down here they spend a few weeks a year at. We had a nice Italian dinner then browsed the stalls again before walking home. We also spend some time in the spa that stays open until 10pm. We also play some cutthroat "Uno" games going on. Saturday morning we went to the College of the Sun street fair and shopped there. There must be a bazillion booths but there is a lot of variety so it is fun.
After everyone left at once it seemed to quiet down a bit and we settled into life in Palm Springs.
We bought a couple of "water noodles", which are actually foam tubes that support you in the pool so you can float effortlessly. The weather has been in the high seventies and low eighties and should stay there for at least the next ten days. We took Ollie in and had him bathed and clipped. They did a nice job on him and he really seems to like it. We think it makes him look quite a bit younger than his 12 years. He has settled into Palm Springs very well. The restaurant we have breakfast at on occasion lets dogs into the patio area so he loves that. He always gets a bite or two of pancakes, eggs, or both. There are lots of dog people in the park that make over him on his walks and offer him cookies. No wonder he has adapted so well.
Yesterday we took another trip to the street fair to pick up some fresh produce, sunglasses, wind spinners, a flag for Pat and Ed, and a purse holder for Carol. We stopped at a nice Mexican restaurant on the way home and had a really nice lunch. We took a lazy siesta when we got back and then watched some tube that night as we wanted to get up early and get packed up.
We could not check in to Outdoor until noon so we took our time packing things away at Happy Traveler. When we pulled out into the side street at 11am to hook up the Jeep the side street had about half a dozen rigs lined up to pull into the park as we were leaving. February 1st and since you get a better rate monthly today was the big turnover day.
Outdoor is very pretty and we selected our spot several months ago. It is close to the cafe and the main pool and spa that is the hub of the park. There are seven other pools in the park as it has about 1200 sites and the satellite pools are position so everyone is fairly close to a pool. Our site is large and has several citrus trees on it, orange and lemon, and there are palm trees all over the park. We are closer to the desert floor here and so the sun is not blocked by the mountains at 3:30 pm as was the case at Happy Traveler. We do have a great view of the mountains around us though. There are 27 holes of par 3 golf here at the resort, 14 lighted tennis courts, a restaurant (ironically called La Palma. which is the model name of our rig), a convenience store, and seven lakes on the 140 acres here. Very green, lots of flowers, and large sites. The sites are privately owned and subleted when the owners are traveling. The nice thing about a big park like this is they are lots of places to walk without leaving the park. Walking around the lakes on the golf course is really nice what with all the palm trees and you don't have to do the same walk each day. The sites are fun to look at and about half the people here have golf carts to travel the park in. We will stick to the Jeep, thank you. We still have all the windows out of the Wrangler so it is nice and cool with the top for shade but the sides all open and very airy. It is very suited for this climate. We will be shooting some pix the next couple of days of the park as it is so picturesque that it cries out for pictures to be taken.
We had hoped to find an area in the SW that we really enjoyed and could make it our home away from home and thought some artsy little town in Arizona would eventually be our pick but it seems that the Palm Springs area turns out to be our choice. We are already considering when and where we will be staying in the Palm Springs area next year.
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