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 7:24 am - Wednesday - December 29th - Anza Borrego Desert, CA - 42° F, 69% humidity, wind 4 mph out of the north by northwest.....partly cloudy today with a forecast high of 61° F.  The view this morning......↴

Looking west.....

Sunrise in the east...

.....on this date in 2018 we were arriving at Sunset Isle RV Park in Cedar Key, FL.....one of our all time favorite places.....↴

The winds continued Tuesday unabated, but not as bad.....just bad enough to make it undesirable to be outside longer than it took to take a couple of pictures.  Our batteries were down to 79% when we awoke, so we turned on the big Kohler 7.5 kw generator for about an hour to push some electrons back into our house batteries, and then switched over to the Honda E2000i generator to finish the job.....it was slated to be overcast all day, and it was.  Ultimately I turned off the Honda when the house batteries hit 97% around 11:30 am.  It appeared we would get some afternoon sun, but it never really materialized long enough to finish charging the batteries.  There was, however, enough sunlight to keep the batteries at 97% the rest of the day.  As I have written previously, it's not imperative that the batteries get back to 100% every day, but they should return to 100% at least once a week, which is not an issue as we have gotten to 100% about 90% of the time we have been boondocking here.

The sunrise Tuesday gave some promise of a lot of sunlight, but the clouds quickly rolled in after these pictures were taken....

.....one of the rare times I was outside for any length of time I noticed that we had lost the left front wheel cover on the Newell during the heavy winds Sunday night/Monday morning.  We also lost the solar light off the top of the flag pole, but I found that within minutes Monday morning....it had flown through the air around 100 feet directly to the southeast.  I did not realize then we had also lost the aforementioned wheel cover.  Anyway, I began to walk out toward S-22 scanning the scrub brush for the black tire cover, and ultimately crossed over the highway walking about 200 yards out to the south.  About that point I remembered the direction the flag pole solar light had flown, so I shifted my search more to the southwest.  Just about the time I had lined myself up with the flag pole and began to walk back, still looking for the wheel cover,  I heard TLE call my name.  She had seen me out looking for something (for what she did not know at the time) so she came out toward S-22 and immediately saw the wheel cover just on the south side of the highway, which is why she called my name.  I looked over and saw her holding the black wheel cover....it was right in line with my direction of travel back toward the trailer, and flag pole!

Searching for the wheel cover was about as exciting as it got for us Tuesday as we continued to hunker down inside the warm interior of our home on wheels.  We both spent most of the day reading......

.....around 4:15 pm I noticed we might get a little peak at a sunset so I went outside to memorialize it as best I could......

.....we have now been at our current boondock site for almost 5 weeks, and a total of almost 6 weeks since we arrived in Ocotillo Wells back on the 23rd of November.  The sunrises and sunsets begin to blur one into another, and the peace and serenity we feel deepens with each passing day.  We are in our happiest of happy places when we can spend days and weeks living off the grid as we are doing now.  I'll leave you with this recording by the Coasters.....

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