Author: harrylange

Corning, CA – Sunday May 3, 2020

Today was the long drive so we were up early and rolling at 6:00 a.m. Got here at the rest stop just north of Corning at 4:00 p.m. with 490 miles.

Gas pricing Bakersfield: February $3.20. May $2.30
Dunnigan: February $2.94. May $2.54

The only place we had traffic was between Stockton and Sacramento. The traffic in downtown Sacramento was wide open with a little congestion by the airport then wide open again. Monday looks to be 400 miles.

Boron, AZ – Saturday May 2, 2020

We got an early start out of Quartzsite this morning. We had wheels rolling at 6:00 a.m. I wanted to get north of Joshua Tree National Park and on our way to Barstow before it got hot. I don’t really like to over working the coach by driving in really hot weather. Quartzsite and Palm Spring are going to get back to 100 and Boron is getting to 82.

We got gas at the AZ-CA boarder in February for $2.70 and in May for $1.80.

Here is today’s drive and tonight stopping point the Boron Rest Stop, 296 miles.

Tomorrow will be the long drive to Northern California.

Goodyear, AZ – Thursday April 30, 2020

Tomorrow we are heading north to the big house and cooler weather. Highs here have been over 100 for the last several days and or going to stay that away until September. Phoenix get 110 days with temperatures over 100.

Did I just get caught?

Yes you did.

The next question is has she done this before and does she know how to get down?

Goodyear, AZ – Wednesday April 1, 2020

Well we are still here in Goodyear. With all the virus things going on we decided to stay here for April. It was a hard to decide what to do. The coach is our traveling home and it feels like home however with the upheaval it would be nice to be in our big house home of 43 years. We were able to move to another site so the refrigerator does not have the afternoon sun.

Big house weather is still cool/cold and wet. Both Brian and Tanya sent us pictures of hail in their back yards yesterday.

Goodyear weather for the first part of April. Traveling is becoming difficult with all the state parks closed and more and more federal parks closing every day. I saw on an RV news letter that their are more people at Quartzsite now than they had in January. The current plan is to return to the big house in May and see what is going to happen after that.

Campsite pictures, in site 365 facing north.

Lots of open spaces. The only thing open here at the park is the laundry room, but at least we have a place to be and the monthly rate is $20.00 a night.

Goodyear, AZ – March 12, 2020 – No More Baseball

Things have changed a lot in the last week. I got this off a friend’s Facebook Page. This is from a State that has a governor who Trump called a Snake a couple of weeks ago because the governor was not following Trump’s lies.

America is so damned lucky that C19 landed in Seattle first.

Our leaders were the first ones in the country to tell seniors and the compromised to stay at home.

They were the first ones to close a college campus, cancel a big national convention, and shut down sports arenas and theaters.

This week, they will be the first ones to use the unemployment insurance system to keep families with sick members afloat.

They told the insurance companies, flat out, that yes: you ARE covering all C19-related costs. No deductibles, no back talk.

They’re now taking the lead in making sure that businesses and the poor also have what they need to get through.

Meanwhile, on the medical side, the folks at Fred Hutch pioneered the use of genetic mapping to track the virus’s spread.

The University of Washington didn’t wait for the CDC; it made its own tests early on, which is why we’re testing more people than any other state.

At Kaiser, they’ve got the world’s first vaccine in clinical trials starting this week.

The Gates Foundation has kicked in $100 million for research, and will have a home test you can order online available sometime next week.

And I was at UW hospital today, which is preparing for a deluge of cases that’s expected to hit in about another nine days. They’re cancelling elective surgeries, training staff, preparing wards. And the PA I saw mentioned that their pharmacy is inventing its own hand sanitizer formula, to ensure that they’ll have a continuous supply no matter what.

This is what competent leadership looks like. We are not waiting for the CDC or the Trump administration to do the research, set the policy, provide the tests, develop the vaccines, or call for quarantines. Our leadership is determined to stay out front of it, and bring the rest of us along.

It’s what all of us, not just those of us in a rich blue technology capital, deserve. To get the full horrifying picture of what the GOP’s policies have stolen from Americans, and the kind of competence and trustworthy leadership we all need to fight to get back to, look to Seattle. At this point, every hour is providing new examples of what a real government looks like, and what it can be mobilized to do.

3/12/2020 Wednesday

This is a quote from Trump during the first part of the week.

“I’ve been briefed on every contingency you can possibly imagine, many contingencies,” the president said. “A lot of positive. Different numbers. All different numbers. Very large numbers. And some small numbers too, by the way.”

He gave an Oval Office speech last night and the Dow went down another 2300 points. Dow is now down almost 30% from it’s high just a few weeks ago.

Today all major sporting events are on hold, schools are closed in three major counties in Washington until April 24, in New York-Broadway is closed, many many things have changed in the World.