Desert Games and Birds

Monday  was a beautiful warm day without much wind so we got in one last game of golf at the Westwind Golf course.

After golf we noticed this group of seniors playing cornhole.  As you can see they set up their Monday cornhole games on the bocce ball courts.

On a recent walk behind our RV park the desert looked pretty bare and uninhabited.

But this tiny bird caught our attention..

It was a Hummingbird....

...and he was very cooperative about posing for pictures when we walked up closer.

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Cleanings at Westwind RV Resort

We will soon be putting our Cougar Travel Trailer into storage for the hot summer months to come, so we decided to get her washed and waxed.

We called Roadrunner RV Wash and Wax.  These two young men came over and washed and waxed our trailer and out truck for a reasonable price.

Here is a sight we have only seen at Westwind RV Resort, and we see him running up and down the paved streets every day.  He is the park street sweeper.

He stopped to talk and Bill asked him if he had ever driven a Zamboni?

He said no.

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Garage Sale and Lawn Ornaments

A recent visit to a Yuma RV park-wide Saturday garage sale did not turn up many results.

This was a typical offering.

It was hard to find any good stuff.

This road-side ornament sale had a lot more to offer.

We almost bought a flying Wood Duck.  Almost - but we were afraid it would not hold up under Michigan weather conditions.

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A Shriners Golf Outing

Shriners International is a fraternity based on fun, fellowship and the Masonic principles of brotherly love, relief and truth.  In the Westwind RV Park the Shriner membership are active and we were invited to buy raffle tickets for a drawing they were having on Saturday that included three new bicycles as prizes.

We bought some tickets and attended the drawing that was held after a morning golf outing in the park.

Neither of us won a bicycle, but one of Bill's tickets was drawn and he walked away with this nifty bag of dice games, LED hat lights, and trinkets.

Mr. Lucky!

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Seniors Acting Like Kids Again

Many retirees forget that they are getting old.

Therefore the RV parks cater to their childish notions.

Westwind has this sand volleyball court and it gets used every day in this 55+ RV resort.

No bikinis however. 

Recently a street was closed off for seating during this one-man concert.  (See the guy on the left with the white cowboy hat)  What we appreciated was that the people in the front rows were not standing.

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A Different Kind of Travel Trailer

Here is an advertisement from 1959.

In 1955 Avion Coach Corporation was formed in Benton Harbor Michigan.  The company built these self-contained travel trailers and people who bought them were known as "Tin Can Tourists".

The silver Avions were built until the 1990s when the company was sold to Fleetwood who decided to build them with conventional materials.

 We recently saw this Avion unit in a nearby RV park.  We seldom see them.  Back in California we talked to a man from the state of Washington who told us he owned and used an Avion trailer for eight years.  When he  sold it he said he got $300 more than what he had paid originally.

Just like an Airstream - they are holding up well.

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Back To Yuma

On Tuesday morning 2/20/2018 we packed up in Quartzsite and headed south on Arizona State Highway 95 through the desert toward Yuma.  It was about a 90-mile drive.  Along the way we passed the desert proving grounds of General Motors.

For our last week in Southwest Arizona we decided to try another RV resort that was rated high by Woodall's Official Campground Guide.  We are familiar with the east side of Yuma so Westwind  RV  & Golf Resort was easy to find.  We grabbed a site and moved in.

Signs like this one above in the park made us quickly feel right at home.

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