Month: February 2017

Spring Training – Monday February 27, 2017

No pictures today.

I did not take my camera because of the forecasted rain.  The game was in the second inning when we got to the ball park.  Because of the rain forecast they started the game at 12:10 rather than 1:10.  The Mariner’s had sent an email at 9:10 a.m. announcing the change however we don’t always see our email, we will be sure to check for announcements  the next time the weather is iffy.

The game was called at the top of the eighth and we were way behind.

After the game we did get to have a late lunch with Brian Larson and had a great time.

Spring Training – Sunday February 26, 2017

Another great day of baseball.

Section 109
Seats  9 & 10
Cano getting ready for the season.

Second day of Spring Training and Nellie’s second home run.
The hit
The bye bye

And the happy totals.

This is a new scoreboard and they are still learning to use it.  The day’s attendance did not get shown, I think it was in the 4,500 range.

After the game we drove out to Tempe and had dinner with Richard and Vickie.  They have been in Yuma and were in Phoenix for the weekend and are now on their way to Tuscon.

White Tank Mountain Regional Park, AZ – Thursday February 23, 2017

We are at a nice park west of Phoenix and a couple of miles north of Goodyear where we will be for the entire month of March. 
When we left Goodyear last Spring I got us a site at the RV Resort in Goodyear for the month of March 2017.  When I purchased Spring Training tickets in early December I needed to find a place to stay for the end of February. This is a nice place with well spaced sites and we have a great view of the valley and the city of Phoenix.  In 2016 we got here the first of March and only missed the annual charity game, however this year the charity game is 2/25 with games 2/26 and 2/27.  In December this park had 7 or 8 sites still available thus here we are for a week. 

We are in site 38 until the first.

Medford, OR – Monday February 20, 2017

Stopped early today the weather south of the Siskiyou’s is windy, restriction on high profile vehicles.  We will get up early and head south they are talking about snow at the pass after 10:00 am.

Today’s campsite; Southern Oregon County RV Park, site F5. 

7:30 pm update; News said the weather in Medford and Siskiyou is going to get cold and all this rain is turning to snow for the next two weeks.  Left Medford at 5:30 and got to the rest stop in Weed at 7:00.  The drive was fine, had some good head winds the last 10 miles.  Their is a flashing yellow sign at the rest stop saying that Hwy 97 from Weed north to Oregon is closed to RV’s and vehicle with trailers. We are on I5.  Weather dot com says the wind will drop down in the morning so I think we leave at first light.  It is much easier to drive in the wind when it is light out.

Spring Training – Saturday February 18, 2017

It is time to move into our small house and head toward the sun, warmth and baseball.
We have spent parts of the last couple of days getting ready for our Sunday departure to the Phoenix area for the month of March.   We will be at White Tank Mountain Regional Park from the 23rd through the 28th and move to Goodyear on March 1st.

I have done a few things to the small house since we got to the big house in November.
We will be towing the pickup this year so that entails a few additions: new canopy, towing base plate, braking system along with tail & running light system.  I also put in a new water pump with hopes it will take care of the water system over pressurizing itself. The last thing we did was new tires on the motorhome, we should be good to go for another 50 – 60,000 miles.
We will be back to the big house for Easter, then on to Yellowstone in May with a month of fishing in Montana on the Madison river in June, to the Garcia’s for Jack’s birthday and back to the big house in July.  We have some great travel planned for this year.