On to Kingman

The Mom.  Last week she had 3 beautiful little puppies.  She live next door to us (not the new place)

2 Females and 1 male.  This little one is my favorite. 

Hasn't rained in Kingman for weeks!  This is our first day here, and we getting large drops.  It's 109 degrees out right now, so this rain will raise the humidity nicely! (it only lasted a couple minutes, and dried almost a fast as it came down.

It was 105 in the shade when we got to Kingman.  After a visit to the Real Estate Office, we headed to the place we usually stay here and got the Swamp Cooler going. Pat drug out a huge fan and turned it on "blast".  Julie loved it!  She stood here and let her ears blow for several minutes.  We have a LOT of work to do.  But, it's suppose to only be in the mid-90's next week.  We will be able to move into the new house on Monday  the 29th.

There are dozens of planes in the "bone yard" here in Mojave, CA.  They were mostly all flown in.  Some are used for parts, most are sold to private parties or foreign countries.

This is one section of a pole that will hold the working parts of a wind generator. There are hundreds, even thousands, of these big babies in Southern California.

Each railroad flat car holds just one section of the big pipe. The train was VERY long, you couldn't see both ends at once.

It takes a special permit to haul just one propeller blade for the huge generators.  A big tractor with 2 flat bed trailers to hold one section.

Maybe not a lot of ambience, but the electric works good for A/C.  We'd use more than $20 worth of gasoline running the generator all night to keep cool.  So, here we are in beautiful Mojave. The ONLY RV park in town.  No one on duty, you pay on the honor system.

Very little "greenery" in town, so this is a special place :-)

We walked 2.5 blocks to McDonalds for a McFlurry after out meal in the Minnie.  We passed this jewel of a trike on the way.  Probably not much chance of Lil Doc wanting to trade her Harley Trike for this one :-)  Although, Mango would look good in the "King" seat!

A very nice clean McDonalds. They even had table decorations.  The lemons were a little stale though.

Early morning on Hiway 101, North of San Francisco.  Road and bridge consturction have turned the road into a parking lot.  It' took us a long time to get out of the Bay Area this morning.  It was also cold and wet.  What a difference 600 miles can make!