Over 14 years now.....

7:25 am - Wednesday - April 24th - LPG&RVR - 44° F, humidity 82%, wind 1 mph out of the northwest....heavy cloud cover today with a forecast high of 62° F, and rain again later this afternoon.  On this date in 2022 I played my first 9 holes of golf at LPG&RVR.....

After a leisurely early morning which consisted of a great cup of coffee, and the composing of my latest missive TLE and I took another of our 2 mile out and back walks.  I talk about how we love the scenery, but rarely ever post pictures about that of which I am speaking....here are a few....

Outbound

Inbound

.....we continue to average around 3.2 mph.  Surprisingly, there is about 80 feet of elevation gain from the entrance to the park to the Newell....I would not have thought that....

....rain was forecast for sometime early evening, but it actually came around 12 pm, not too long after we returned from our walk.  I had planned to play 9 holes of golf early Tuesday afternoon, but with the rain also came the death of that vision.  We spent the balance of the day indoors enjoying the pitter patter of rain on our riveted aircraft aluminum roof.  While TLE read, I caught up on some of my YouTube channels.  There was also a unexpectedly long nap during the afternoon...probably over an hour...at least that's what TLE says....lol!

Soon it was time for dinner.  We had planned to grill a salmon steak early Tuesday evening, but the rain put the kibosh on that idea, so TLE baked the salmon steak, adding a lemon caper butter sauce over the steak, which was placed upon a bed on saffron rice, plus avocado slices on the side with a touch of lime juice, and salt....it was such a pretty plate I had to memorialize it....

.....not to mention how delicious it was....the salmon just melted in our mouths.  And with that another LPG&RVR day came to a delightful end.

TLE and I both continue to be in good health.  It has been years since either of us had more than a head cold.  We are sleeping well at night, and sometimes during the day.....lol!  Living in rural America seems to have the benefit of not being exposed to colds and/or flu on a regular basis, and even when we have been around folks who have been sick, we never caught what they had.  We both have to acknowledge that we are almost 75 now, and we have slowed down somewhat, but we are trying to remain as active as possible with daily 1-2 mile walks combined with stretching and strengthening exercises, plus still working a few days a week.  When we first began our nomadic life back in 2011 we never expected to still be nomads 13+ years later, but here we are in our 13th year of traveling full time, and 14th year of living full time in the Newell, with no thought of settling down in once place, or moving back into a sticks and bricks home in the near future.  Our 1982 Newell Classic, 36' diesel pusher continues to stand up well to full time occupancy.  Our 2001 VW Beetle's odometer just registered 190,000 miles while we were on our way into Alturas on Monday.  We bought her with just 124,000 miles on her odometer back in March of 2014, and she continues to serve us faithfully.  This is the longest we have ever owned any car.  For that matter, we have now owned the Newell for 16+ years.

On the technology front our Starlink, generation 2 continues to perform flawlessly, day after day.  We continue to stream over 90% of our TV programming making our Winegard satellite dish more and more irrelevant.  I haven't cut the proverbial cord to DirecTV yet, but we are getting close.  We will probably just switch over to the DirecTV Streaming service in the near future, which is way less expensive.  Having dependable internet technology is such a blessing, but we know that can all disappear in an instant, and then we will be back to needing books to get vital information.  To prepare for that possibility we have been acquiring books on many relevant survival topics such as growing and preserving our own food, etc.  Right now you can just do an internet search (we use DuckDuckGo) and have the information at your finger tips, but if the electrical grid goes down you need an alternative way to obtain this valuable information, and books and/or local knowledge will be the only sources left.

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