Wind chill.....

7:32 am  - Tuesday - December 28th - Anza Borrego Desert, CA - 47° F, 54% humidity, wind 2 mph out of the west by northwest......partly cloudy with light breezes today and a forecast high of 58° F.  On this date in 2018 we were stopped at a Rest Area 50 miles south of Atlanta.....traffic and rain were terrible.....some of the worst traffic ever........↴

After being buffeted by high winds all night we awoke to wind blown skies....you can just see the sun peaking over the top of a cloud bank on the eastern horizon around 7:30 am......  

....it was a day of running the Honda E2000i generator for much of the morning to recharge the batteries until we had enough sun to take over the task, and then maintain them at 100% for the balance of the day.  By 5 pm they had slipped back to 99%.

The windy conditions continued all day making the 58° F outdoor temps feel more like 50° F.  I had to take down the flag pole for much of the day, and probably should have taken it down the night before, but I was being lazy.  Due to the wind chill factor we spent another day inside reading with very occasional forays outside to take care of this and that.

Around 4:30 pm TLE called my attention to the cloud formations surrounding us, and how the sun was lighting them up, so I went out to capture a few images of our 360° view.....

View to the east....

View to the southwest....

View to the north....

.....we spent the evening reading, and I was in bed shortly after 9 pm.....TLE followed a short time later.

We found out Monday afternoon that there is a change in our New Year plans.  Originally our kids, and their friends had planned to come back out to Ocotillo Wells on New Years Eve, but some of them decided not to leave home for New Years, and the others wanted to be closer to home so they are going to a place called El Mirage Dry Lake about 45 minutes from where they live.....as you know the drive out here is about 2.5 hours, so I totally get it.  That means TLE and I will not be moving down the hill on New Years Eve, but remaining here in our beloved Anza Borrego Desert boondock site until around the 12th, or 13th of January making this the longest we have ever boondocked in one place, and most number of consecutive days boondocked ever.  However, our consecutive number of days boondocking record will continue to be extended when we move up to Quartzite immediately after we leave here.

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