A day in the life.....

7:01 am - January 3rd - Wednesday - GNHS - 49° F, humidity 73%, wind 9 mph out of the east by southeast.....cloudy today with a chance of rain around mid day, and a forecast high of 60° F.  On this date in 2016 TLE and I arrived at Rock House Road for our first Anza Borrego Desert boondocking experience.....we were with Michael Vaccari (foreground), Steve and Linda Dempsey (their motorcoach is in the background)....we have returned many times since.....↴ 

After a very laid back New Years day TLE and I decided to drive into La Quinta for the first time in a few weeks to do some shopping, and pay a visit to the local Supercuts....it's been 6 weeks since my last haircut, and I was getting just a little shaggy, to say the least.  We left GNHS around 8:55 am, and arrived at the La Quinta Supercuts at 9:55 am, just in time for their 10 am opening.  Within 5 minutes I was seated in the barber chair, and getting my ears lowered.

We like to take a walk each morning, so on this day, since we were headed to La Quinta early, we decided to take a walk up and down HWY 111 after my haircut, then get an early lunch....I've had a hankering for a chicken Caesar Salad for a while....and were doing just that (walking) when I received a call from Casey Harper, one of our bosses at COA, that there was a potential customer in the park that wanted to do a rental beginning at 1 pm, and would we be amenable to taking care of that?  TLE and I agreed to be back by 12:30 pm, so we turned around and headed back to the VW, and drove down to the local Ralphs Supermarket to do our shopping, and then head for home. By the way, we covered around 1.26 miles on our walk averaging 3.1 mph.  We arrived back at GNHS around 12:30 pm, put away the groceries, then got our customers on their way a tad after 1 pm.

Back from our 1.26 mile walk sporting my new coif (Supercuts in the background)

Since I didn't get my Chicken Caesar Salad TLE bought one for me at Ralphs to eat after we got our customers on their way.....what a woman!  We just hung out for the next 3.5 hours....I with my salad, and TLE with her book, and by 4:30 pm we could see our four seat RZR coming up the street....right on time!  Our customer had planned to watch the sun go down at the Bat Caves, hence the 1 pm start, and didn't know they had to be back by 4:30 pm when they made the reservation, so their rental only lasted 3.5 hours.  All was well, and for another day at least, there were no incidents, just smiling, happy customers.  As I tell TLE all the time, we are in the business of selling smiles.

Thankfully, we received our gasoline delivery Tuesday, so after bidding our customers adieu we drove four of the RZRs down to the fuel station to fill them up.  We've got rentals going out Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, so we need to be ready.  So far we have no bookings for Saturday, but I am sure we will.

TLE and I closed out the day with a fire on the 'lido deck', and then headed inside around 6:15 pm for dinner, a soup which consisted of celery and onions with a side of cheese toast.  Just another 'day in the life'.

Thanks for stopping by!