"The Oasis of my Soul", Seventh year on the road... - Page 11

BeemerChef · 01-12-2007, 04:47 AM

It rained all night, we, I say we!... slept late... kept raining and there was not much sense going to Tucson trying to find another place to camp... 80 miles away, I thought, leave early tomorrow morning and have a do nothing day!
Well, the skies cleared up, and actually for the first time I cannot write it all in one Blog!
So this is part one of what end up being a full day...

Be well...

Ara & Spirit

GB · 01-12-2007, 04:49 AM

The journey in motion continues!! Thanks for the great commentary and pics!! Don't be shy about PM'ing me again to update the title, I'm at your service

BeemerChef · 01-12-2007, 05:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gadget Boy

The journey in motion continues!! Thanks for the great commentary and pics!! Don't be shy about PM'ing me again to update the title, I'm at your service

As usual as you always have been, you are the true gentleman!
We are going... going...
I am truly excited about the West Coast... no that I have never been there... but all those deserts... and DVDaze I know is going to be something else... I have I have enough space on my hard drive for all the pictures!!!... Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

Be well...

Ara & Spirit

BeemerChef · 01-13-2007, 08:21 PM

A quick overnight in Gila Bend, AZ, and here we are now in Anza Borrego, California! I will spell it for the first time...
A day, or was it two days ago?... returning from the Chiricahuas the sunset was magical... as so was the ride up, all in the Blog.
Feeling always like a kid in a candy store... that is me today... new maps, new roads with the knowledge that I will be here, in this area anyhow, till it starts warming up a bit...

Be well...

Ara & Spirit

VIVID1 · 01-14-2007, 03:51 PM

That last pizza looks really, really yummy

What happened with the deal in Chicago? Anything?

My mom thinks you're cute

I showed her my trip pictures today.

DawnBreaker · 01-14-2007, 04:30 PM

Good to see you are still enjoying your ride. I wish I could join you. I dream of the times I am on the road on two wheels.

Wayne

BeemerChef · 01-14-2007, 05:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by VIVID1

That last pizza looks really, really yummy

What happened with the deal in Chicago? Anything?

My mom thinks you're cute

I showed her my trip pictures today.

No word yet... yes, THAT Pizza was very cute... I mean good!
I guess we will leave it at that... remember someone's comment that evening?
And please... pm if you remember...

Wayne... right now in the warmth of your home... I don't know... sounds appealing!!!

Be well...

Ara & Spirit

BeemerChef · 01-15-2007, 06:41 AM

Leave some space I always think... with a load like mine the braking effect is just not the same... specially when second in line to a minor fender bender... What was really funny and I wish I had a picture of it, but we had to move along as this happened... We had to wait a while for the accident to be moved. A cop arrives coming the other way... parks and crosses the median by foot...
They are making some space for us to move along... as we leave... he sprints back to his car as I almost run over him, I look... and the brushes under his car are on fire!!! flames are shooting 3 to 4 feet by the time he reaches the other side... myself wondering what he is going to do... he jumps in the car, gutsy move... and drives it forward! Gets his extinguisher and puts the fire out... his car was not burning... yet! Wonder... wonder... I bet he will never throw that cigarette again down when getting out of his car!!!
It was down to 19 degrees last night!... I will not complain, I know I am at about the most southern point there could be and everyone else has to be colder. So you will not hear about it... anymore! Instead I will write my day in the Blog, my first day in this unusual State Park...

Be well...

Ara & Spirit

rustynut · 01-15-2007, 08:42 AM

Hi Ara, Glad you and Spirit are having a great time. Especially glad that you were behing the wreck. As a word of caution to everyone, I saw a car burn completely in a similar situation recently. It was caused when the catalytic converter sparked the grass fire.

Continue to be well, Ara and Spirit!

Billy

BeemerChef · 01-15-2007, 08:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jkam

G'day Ara.

See you at DVDaze in a few weeks. Looking forward to finally shaking your hand.

Why no Baja? It's a great time of year to be there and the food is pretty good, not much in the way of local markets but still some interesting food to be had. Fresh caught fish made into tacos right before your eyes, a cold cerveza and the beach, what more could you ask for. I'll be headed that way soon.

I was wondering if you where going to be there!
Baja?... yes, it does sound good... very good... I have all Spirit's papers in order and would leave the rig/camper/trailer in San Diego...
We can talk... I coud... we could use some warmth!!!...

Lookng forward... the 26th!!!

Be well... and again thanks for stirring me into this camper!... would have been real real rough otherwise for an old man and his dog!!!

Ara & Spirit

BeemerChef · 01-15-2007, 08:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rustynut

Hi Ara, Glad you and Spirit are having a great time. Especially glad that you were behing the wreck. As a word of caution to everyone, I saw a car burn completely in a similar situation recently. It was caused when the catalytic converter sparked the grass fire.

Continue to be well, Ara and Spirit!

Billy

So that's what it was!!!... I just wish I would have had the camera ready then... ot better a video...

Be well...

Ara & Spirit

flux_capacitor · 01-15-2007, 10:03 AM

Just wanted to say HI ARA! Oh yeah, and HI SPIRIT!

BeemerChef · 01-16-2007, 06:59 AM

I have not been able to settle since I have been here, unlike other places that I have been, I have dug deeper and deeper and very slowly some mental answers are, vaguely I have to say, taking some various shapes. I watched a short movie this morning at the Visitor Center about the Marshall Family that lived here on Ghost Mountain for 15 years... hiking for 14 miles they brought wood piece by piece to built their home... their water came from miles away 12 gallons at the time... They had 3 children and they end up with a divorce in later years. Can we change so much, from one extreme to another? I miss the simpler years... of course I can go back to them as right now nothing prevails but truly the matters of the mind... ABDSP is an enigma to me as I wonder why it has brought up all these questions in my mind? Is it because it is so vast?... so much land with the freedom to live on it anywhere one likes?... the invitation sure is there... I will probably take it after my stay here in the Park... that is what I have been longing for...
I got to ride some of those areas today... much land... and much sand!
The Blog.
Be well...

Ara & Spirit

* Hey Flux!!!... now I am going to say,,, you NEED to ride here also... this is where real skills are needed for two wheel off road riding... Lets start a Tour Business... I cook... you guide!!! Hi Jan... Hi boxes... What boxes!!!

Jack Daniel · 01-16-2007, 07:34 AM

Hey Ara

and Spirit

I sure am enjoying your Blog

By the time you get out'a the desert you ought to have a plan to make your hack two-wheel drive, huh?

+ And those pizza really look good

I sure wish I could get the hell out'a this office and go for an extended trip; at least being able to keep up with you is better than nothing

Motor31 · 01-16-2007, 11:59 AM

Ara,

It was great to meet you in Tucson when you were here. Heck of a coincidence being at that Wallyworld. I'm going to have to do ome backtracking on the thread here to see where you strted it from.

Stay warm and stay safe.

01-12-2007, 04:47 AM	#151
BeemerChef ^OP Wandering Homeless Joined: Jul 2003 Location: Living under the Stars... Oddometer: 3,204	The Magic of the Chiracahua's It rained all night, we, I say we!... slept late... kept raining and there was not much sense going to Tucson trying to find another place to camp... 80 miles away, I thought, leave early tomorrow morning and have a do nothing day! Well, the skies cleared up, and actually for the first time I cannot write it all in one Blog! So this is part one of what end up being a full day... Be well... Ara & Spirit __________________ Our Journal "The Oasis of my Soul" "One-Pan Recipe" eStore, outdoors, indoors... Smugmug, the Photos

01-13-2007, 08:21 PM	#154
BeemerChef ^OP Wandering Homeless Joined: Jul 2003 Location: Living under the Stars... Oddometer: 3,204	Part II of the Magic of the Chiricahuas... A quick overnight in Gila Bend, AZ, and here we are now in Anza Borrego, California! I will spell it for the first time... A day, or was it two days ago?... returning from the Chiricahuas the sunset was magical... as so was the ride up, all in the Blog. Feeling always like a kid in a candy store... that is me today... new maps, new roads with the knowledge that I will be here, in this area anyhow, till it starts warming up a bit... Be well... Ara & Spirit __________________ Our Journal "The Oasis of my Soul" "One-Pan Recipe" eStore, outdoors, indoors... Smugmug, the Photos

01-14-2007, 03:51 PM	#155
VIVID1 Ducatistanna Joined: Apr 2006 Location: Fort Collins, CO Oddometer: 1,619	That last pizza looks really, really yummy What happened with the deal in Chicago? Anything? My mom thinks you're cute I showed her my trip pictures today. __________________ BLOG: excessivelocity.blogspot.com XT225 \| ST3 \| 954RR

01-15-2007, 06:41 AM	#158
BeemerChef ^OP Wandering Homeless Joined: Jul 2003 Location: Living under the Stars... Oddometer: 3,204	Anza Borrego Desert State Park (ABDSP) Leave some space I always think... with a load like mine the braking effect is just not the same... specially when second in line to a minor fender bender... What was really funny and I wish I had a picture of it, but we had to move along as this happened... We had to wait a while for the accident to be moved. A cop arrives coming the other way... parks and crosses the median by foot... They are making some space for us to move along... as we leave... he sprints back to his car as I almost run over him, I look... and the brushes under his car are on fire!!! flames are shooting 3 to 4 feet by the time he reaches the other side... myself wondering what he is going to do... he jumps in the car, gutsy move... and drives it forward! Gets his extinguisher and puts the fire out... his car was not burning... yet! Wonder... wonder... I bet he will never throw that cigarette again down when getting out of his car!!! It was down to 19 degrees last night!... I will not complain, I know I am at about the most southern point there could be and everyone else has to be colder. So you will not hear about it... anymore! Instead I will write my day in the Blog, my first day in this unusual State Park... Be well... Ara & Spirit __________________ Our Journal "The Oasis of my Soul" "One-Pan Recipe" eStore, outdoors, indoors... Smugmug, the Photos

01-15-2007, 08:42 AM	#159
rustynut Sr. Adventurer Joined: Jan 2006 Location: CSA Oddometer: 24	fire!!! Hi Ara, Glad you and Spirit are having a great time. Especially glad that you were behing the wreck. As a word of caution to everyone, I saw a car burn completely in a similar situation recently. It was caused when the catalytic converter sparked the grass fire. Continue to be well, Ara and Spirit! Billy

01-12-2007, 04:49 AM	#152
GB Mod Squad Joined: Aug 2002 Location: Toronto, ON Oddometer: 53,466	The journey in motion continues!! Thanks for the great commentary and pics!! Don't be shy about PM'ing me again to update the title, I'm at your service

01-14-2007, 04:30 PM	#156
DawnBreaker ride earth then mars Joined: Dec 2006 Location: Fort Worth, TX Oddometer: 23	Good to see you are still enjoying your ride. I wish I could join you. I dream of the times I am on the road on two wheels. Wayne

01-15-2007, 10:03 AM	#162
flux_capacitor I know a shortcut! Joined: Sep 2004 Location: Dawsonville, GA Oddometer: 9,478	Just wanted to say HI ARA! Oh yeah, and HI SPIRIT!

01-16-2007, 06:59 AM	#163
BeemerChef ^OP Wandering Homeless Joined: Jul 2003 Location: Living under the Stars... Oddometer: 3,204	This is real Desert, a reminder! I have not been able to settle since I have been here, unlike other places that I have been, I have dug deeper and deeper and very slowly some mental answers are, vaguely I have to say, taking some various shapes. I watched a short movie this morning at the Visitor Center about the Marshall Family that lived here on Ghost Mountain for 15 years... hiking for 14 miles they brought wood piece by piece to built their home... their water came from miles away 12 gallons at the time... They had 3 children and they end up with a divorce in later years. Can we change so much, from one extreme to another? I miss the simpler years... of course I can go back to them as right now nothing prevails but truly the matters of the mind... ABDSP is an enigma to me as I wonder why it has brought up all these questions in my mind? Is it because it is so vast?... so much land with the freedom to live on it anywhere one likes?... the invitation sure is there... I will probably take it after my stay here in the Park... that is what I have been longing for... I got to ride some of those areas today... much land... and much sand! The Blog. Be well... Ara & Spirit * Hey Flux!!!... now I am going to say,,, you NEED to ride here also... this is where real skills are needed for two wheel off road riding... Lets start a Tour Business... I cook... you guide!!! Hi Jan... Hi boxes... What boxes!!! __________________ Our Journal "The Oasis of my Soul" "One-Pan Recipe" eStore, outdoors, indoors... Smugmug, the Photos BeemerChef screwed with this post 01-16-2007 at 07:10 AM

01-16-2007, 07:34 AM	#164
Jack Daniel See Ya At The Scrub Joined: Sep 2005 Location: Weeki Wachee, FL Oddometer: 11,813	Hey Ara and Spirit I sure am enjoying your Blog By the time you get out'a the desert you ought to have a plan to make your hack two-wheel drive, huh? + And those pizza really look good I sure wish I could get the hell out'a this office and go for an extended trip; at least being able to keep up with you is better than nothing __________________ Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans JOHN LENNON The Scrub The Swamp Jack Daniel screwed with this post 01-16-2007 at 07:53 AM

01-16-2007, 11:59 AM	#165
Motor31 Beastly Adventurer Joined: Nov 2006 Location: Wherever we park - full time RV'ers Oddometer: 1,917	Ara, It was great to meet you in Tucson when you were here. Heck of a coincidence being at that Wallyworld. I'm going to have to do ome backtracking on the thread here to see where you strted it from. Stay warm and stay safe. __________________ Wherever we go, there we are. DEFINITION OF A VETERAN A Veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life." Author Unknown

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