Dateland, Arizona and the completion of the desk slide modification (2/4/21 to 2/11/21) Blog post 139

 After spending 6 weeks in Yuma for Neil's Cataract surgery, we are happy to be on the road again. 


We are staying at the Dateland RV Park in Dateland, AZ. When booking this park, it showed amazing pictures of the Date Farm and how you can stay in the RV park next to the farm. LOL Not even close! This is not a town. This is a gas stop. To register for the park, you have to park the rv across the street in the abandoned building parking lot or the Date farm parking and then register with the person at the gas station counter. We are then provided a map on how to get to the park and   choose your own site. We left the parking lot and headed across the street down a dirt, very bumpy, large pot holed road to where the rv park is. There is dirt, dirt, and more dirt. The sites are spacious and had FHU with 50 AMP for $19/nt; The price was so worth it! A majority of the campers were construction workers, so during the day, it was like having the whole area to ourselves.

I booked this park for 7 days, thinking it would be a great place to relax and enjoy the Date Farm. Instead we decided to finish our RV desk renovation/modification. This used to be our dinette slide that we had turned into a Pet slide for our 3 Golden retrievers. Unfortunately we lost all 3 of our  beautiful Golden babies within 6 weeks of our RV journey, so we decided to turn it into a desk and drawers for the kitchen.

Neil is so amazing. He built the base back in July and then built the rest, but ran out of wood to build the last drawer.  I am so impressed with how well the stain matched the rest of the house. 

It took 7 months to finish this project, because not all parks allow this kind of work. I am loving having 3 windows to look out while I am working on the computer.


(Building the Drawers)



(Even spatulas were used for this project)







(NOW FOR THE STAINING)






So Happy with the results and now I have 6 more drawers and 1 left still be done!


Took a bike ride, expecting to ride about 5 miles to the Gila River, except I went west instead of east. At about 5.2 miles and no river, we checked GPS to learn that is 10 mile in the opposite direction. We decided to go look for said river via the truck. We went to where the Gps showed the river to be, but there was no trace of it. Luckily Neil brought the portable air pump, because I kept losing air pressure in my front tire.



I learned that my husband is very interested in train tracks. 
A train went by and blasted us with its horn. 













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