Hey, you golfers! Look what's across the street from where we are parked.

Shadow Hills Sun City is across the street. It is a Del Webb community of houses with a public golf course. I went for a bike ride yesterday. It was a nice ride with great scenery. There are only 130 golf courses in the Coachella Valley.

Quince Anos.

Last weekend there was a party in the club house. It was a Quince Años which is the traditional Mexican fifteen-year-old party where the young lady is introduced as a young adult. Everyone was dressed up and a good time was had by all. Check out the dress the young lady wore!

Miss you everyday!

Mom!

Her book is #1.

Sarah's book dedication is:

" Dedicated to all Patriots who share my love of the United States of America. And particularly to our women and men in uniform, past and present ----
God bless the fight for freedom."

She has a website. Donate if you can. http://www.sarahpac.com

Lions, Tigers & Palin...ha!

Oprah's much-anticipated interview of Sarah Palin brought her the biggest "Oprah" ratings in two years.

The Live Feed's James Hibberd notes that Monday's "Oprah" drew an 8.7 household rating and 13 share, the highest since Oprah hosted the Osmonds in 2007.

The tigers were painted on the back of a motor home that was parked behind us.

And of course, Dave & his new book.

Salton Sea trip continues with Slab City.

Just past Salvation Mountain is the entrance to Slab City, “The Last Free Place.” Squatters and snowbirds have taken up roost at an old, abandoned military base, once called the Marine Barracks Camp Dunlop. It was shut down back in 1961. Some military servicemen remained after the base closed, and people have been living there ever since. There is no charge for parking or camping. There is no running water or electricity. Just the slabs from the old military buildings remain. The site has been decommissioned and is not managed by any agency. Salvation Mountain and Slab City are located in Niland, CA, USA. Here you go RVer's it's free..........yuck!

What a day.

I woke this morning hearing Dave trying to throw up in the bathroom. We left in a hurry for the emergency room. But after spending from 7am - 1:30pm with an IV, pain meds and a cat scan they said they could find nothing. Prognosis: here's 2 prescriptions for muscle relaxation and go home. Hum......

A couple signs from yesterday.

These were posted around the Salton Sea.

Beside the Salton Sea lives a man called Leonard.

The first stop was to meet Leonard. He was giving a tour when we arrived at Salvation Mountain. Leonard is on the left.

Why build a mountain in the desert? One man had a dream, a purpose: to spread the message “God is Love.” The red and pink letters that crown the mountaintop spell this message out to whoever comes close enough to read it. Thousands of tourists have traveled to Niland, CA to visit Salvation Mountain. Leonard Knight, the man behind the mountain, lives at Salvation Mountain. He continues to work on it each day, adding more structures, color and messages. Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, National Geographic, The Discovery Channel and other news media have told the story of Salvation Mountain. The media has given it more fame and attention than Leonard could have ever dreamed possible. He has achieved his goal of spreading the word about God in a big way. He has dedicated his entire life to it.

The smooth adobe clay is painted over with colorful images and bible scriptures. More than 100,000 gallons of paint, 25 years of hard labor, 1000’s of hay bales and bucketfuls of adobe have gone into the creation of Salvation Mountain.

A day of adventure.

We jumped in the car today headed for the Salton Sea.

History

The Salton Sea was formed between 1905 and 1907 when the Colorado River burst through poorly built irrigation controls south of Yuma, Arizona. Almost the entire flow of the river filled the Salton Basin for more than a year, inundating communities, farms and the main line of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

Continued filling of the Salton Sink was finally stopped in 1907, when a line of protective levees was built by boxcars dumping boulders into the breach from Southern Pacific tracks. By then, this inland lake was about 40 miles long and 13 miles wide, covering an area of about 400 square miles.

The Salton Sea is currently 35 miles by 15 miles and can be as long as 40 miles by almost 20 miles in particularly wet years. It has an average depth of 29.9 feet and, at its deepest, is 51 feet. It contains 7.3 million acre feet of water and evaporates 1.3 million acre feet each year. There is a five-mile-long trench on the south end of the Sea that is 51 feet deep. The Sea is currently 228 feet below sea level. Interestingly, the bed of the Salton Sea is only five feet higher than the lowest spot in Death Valley.

Presently, the fishery in the Salton Sea is thriving. Salinity is slightly more than the Pacific Ocean. The current salt level of the Sea is in the area of 41 to 43 TH PPM. The Pacific Ocean is about 34.9 TH PPM.. If the concentrated salt level of the Sea increases greater than 44 TH PPM., it is expected that all the fish, except the Tilapia, will cease to reproduce. Tilapia can survive up to 60 TH PPM.

Bird watching is very good at the park, as it is all over the Salton Sea. Migrating birds begin to be seen on the Sea as early as October. They fill the air by January and generally leave by May. Four million birds are estimated to use the Sea each day in the winter, more than any other resource in the nation.

Quack n' birds.

Barney Frank is an idiot. I mean look at the duck and birds on the pond.

The dawning of the day.

I had doggie duty this morning. There was a cool ring around the moon but I didn't get a good photo. I did get a couple neat flag pictures.

Pink sky from tonight.

Here's the other 1/2. WOW....

The sky was crying yellow tonight!

Red sky at night sailors delight. Red sky at morning sailors warning. But what about YELLOW? Half of the sky tonight was pink the other half was yellow. I've never seen yellow like this. All I can say is WOW!!!!

California sunset.

This was last week.

Halloween.

This is part of my costume. I didn't get a picture of Carol & I. We stapled Dixie cups to our clothes & painted our faces. What were we? Dead Dixie Chicks!