John and Elizabeth called to say they were going for a job interview in Nevada. We made plans to meet in Death Valley. Our first stop was in the Mohave National Preserve Visitor Center, an old railroad station. The trees were in bloom and the bees were busy! The Preserve featured rough granite mountains as well as sand dunes and volcanic cinder cones. The next stop was the China Ranch Date Farm, which was an oasis of date trees tucked down into a valley between desolate mountains. The trees had pajamas and other coverings on the ripening dates (I suppose to keep those pesky bees off). We foundered on the rich dates, they were so good! Finally we met up with John, Elizabeth and William in Death Valley. He is only 4 weeks old in these pictures and had grown so much! He has these little smiles that come so quickly and are gone! Beautiful Elizabeth is so good with him, he really has wonderful parents and he traveled fairly well for being so little. What a treat to see the little guy and his parents – thanks John and Elizabeth for going the extra mile to make that possible!
The exciting news is this: Ron and I will be camp hosts in San Mateo Campground, a campground in San Onofre State Beach by San Clemente, California! We start next week and will work there through the winter! We are so excited to be by the beach! Also, it will be wonderful to be close to David and Joanna as well as Ron’s sisters and family! So we’re hanging up the gold prospecting for a while. We are saying goodbye to our friends here by Lake Havasu and getting things prepared for our trip there. If you pass that way, be sure to look us up!
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