Donna was busy yesterday. She spent most of the day working on a PowerPoint presentation for the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) conference in Scottsdale at the end of May. Donna will be speaking there. She took a break around 11:30am and went for a walk. She walked about a mile to the RV Resort and swam laps in the pool, then used the shower facility there. When she finished her shower, she called me on the cell phone and I rode the scooter down to pick her up.
Donna made chicken-guacamole wraps for lunch. We had lunch at the covered picnic table near our site. A chipmunk came out to see what’s for lunch. He was unafraid and inquisitive. He sprawled out on the concrete near our table, just waiting for us to offer him something. I eventually caved and threw him an apple slice. He picked it up quickly and ran off into the brush to munch it down.
Lunch time visitor waiting patiently
After lunch, I rode down to the resort and used the shower. The bathrooms and showers are very clean and the water is hot with good pressure. After shaving, I enjoyed a long, hot shower. This is one of the things that’s cool about this place. We’re boondocking on top of a bluff with a great view and no neighbors to speak of – there’s a travel trailer on the bluff, but we’ve only seen the owner once on Monday night. We think he must be working in the area. We have a great view of the lake and marina. It’s quiet, but we’re only a few minutes away from amenities like the pool, showers and convenience store. And we only pay $11/day!
The afternoon was quite warm. The temperature was in the upper 80s and there was very little breeze. I fired up the generator around 3PM and turned on the air conditioners. At 5:30PM we rode down to the resort clubhouse for a potluck dinner. We don’t usually engage in that sort of thing, but we thought we’d check it out. Donna made a salad with leftover jerk chicken and mango salsa. When we arrived, people were already seated and eating. There were only five other couples. They were all older people who live here full time. We heard some scuttlebutt and history of the place. I had things a little mixed up in yesterday’s post. The Lake Pleasant Regional Park campground is on the other side of the lake. Pleasant Harbor is owned by the Maricopa Water District. We enjoyed the meal and conversation and left before sundown.
We walked down to the marina. Donna had been there before, but I hadn’t made the walk out on the boardwalk. We went to the restaurant and looked the menu over, then walked back.
View of our bluff from the marina
Back home, we made cocktails – I had a martini and Donna had a greyhound made with fresh squeezed grapefruit. She’s wishing now that she had taken more grapefruit from the Apache Wells RV Resort. The temperature had cooled and it was pleasant out, so we carried our drinks to the picnic table.
Happy hour at the picnic table
We sat and talked and watched the sunset. There were clouds in the eastern sky that made it colorful.
Clouds in the east at sunset
We watched two episodes of House of Cards before calling it a day.
Today, I want to try to meet up with Curtis from RVilliage.com. Curtis is the man behind this new site. This new website allows members to locate other like-minded members and arrange meets. When I checked Pleasant Harbor, I saw Curtis was here. I found a picture of his Prevost coach and saw it parked in the temporary area. We exchanged messages via RVilliage and he gave me his cell phone number. I’ll call him this morning and see when he might have some free time.
The weather guessers are calling for another warm day, but we should have a breeze to mitigate it. Another pleasant day at the lake.