Category: Arizona

Goodyear, AZ – Baseball – Monday March 7, 2016

Monday baseball against the Diamondbacks.  As we were driving into the parking lot the car got hit by a baseball ( thank goodness for plastic side panels ). It took me a while to figure out BOOM was a baseball hitting the side of the car.  The guy behind us saw the ball hit the car and he got the ball.
Section 114
Row H
Seats 11, 12
At the end of the DBacks dugout and one row back.

Nothing is for sure at Spring Training, even the daily lineup is on a whiteboard.

Paxton’s first pitch of the day.

Yes Seager you need to run them all out, it is good practice and baseball is all about practice.

A lonely ball :-(.

ust before Cruz gives it a ride.

Hotdog wins today.

Like I said it pays to run them all out.

I got our flag up today.

Goodyear, AZ – Baseball – Saturday March 5, 2016

Here are our seats for today:

Section 110
Row N
Seats 11, 12

Right behind home plate in the next to the last row of this section.  Set behind a San Diego Scout Spencer Graham and some guy with the Mariners ( don’t know what he does maybe a scout, seemed to be only timing home plate to first base).

Got a couple of pictures of the radio announcers,
And of course Cano,
Watching him move is amazing, he does not waste any energy by make unnecessary movements and he looks smooth when the pictures isn’t even moving.  With all of this he is always in the right place at the right time.
Even at spring training they have mascot races.
Edgar always has his eyes on this hitters.
Oh, wait a minute, maybe he doesn’t always.  This is when they don’t do what he asked them to do.

Ok, so it is not a challenge to get a picture of Seager hitting the ball, but it is fun.
Another nice sunny day in Phoenix/Peoria/Goodyear I think it got to 90 today.
Fun game to watch, we started out with three runs and fell back into the 2015 season when things just didn’t go well in the 7th.

Goodyear, AZ – Wednesday March 2, 2016 “Play Ball”

Today was our FIRST Spring Training baseball game.   We had a great time.

Section 110
Row L
Seats 6,7

This is where we sat.  We have seats for this area again on Saturday.

One things we forgot was our radar gun.  Everyone else in front of us had one.  Our seats were one row back from all the scouts (or at least a lot of them) who attended the game.

It was fun to watch, the pitcher would wind up, all the radar guns would go up, pitcher would throw the ball, you’d hear the ball hit the catcher’s glove and all the scouts heads would go down at the same time as they made a note of the speed.   Looks like they all had the same type and model of gun and they would ALL record/measure the same speed.

I only took a couple of hundred pictures, here are a few:
Got to have beer.
We were close to the field so it was hard to get good pictures of our announcers.
Our new skipper starting his first game.
Remember this guy?  Here he is getting his first hit of the season.
Today’s attendance.
Happy numbers for the day.  It is fun to watch them win on a 90+ degree day in March.
We had a great time and next game is Saturday.  Seattle and SanDiego play again on Thursday 3/3 however it is home game for SanDiego and when I purchased tickets I got tickets for all the Seattle home games ( less the April 1st game, we leave here March 31).   Anyway looks like a fun March.

 

Goodyear, AZ – Tuesday March 1, 2016

Today we drove from Quartzsite to Goodyear, AZ where we will be for the month of March, Mariner’s Spring Training.
Today’s drive.

Aerial of where we are staying for the month.

Ever popular campsite pictures.

This is an 55+ community/resort that was originally design to have small double wide homes put on the sites.  It looks like since the sites have not sold very well the resort rents out  the open sites to seasonal or monthly rentals.  This works out great for use because we have a site which is 60 feet wide. Lots of space and we are across the street from one of the golf holes so we even have some open space.

We are 25 miles from Peoria and the baseball field however Tuesday it only took use 30 minutes both ways traveling on 4 lane highway 95% of the trip.

 

Hi Jolly – Quartzsite, AZ – Sunday February 28, 2016

Sunday was a day to explore the area.  We were out looking at the different BLM lands to stay on.

This is information for future trips into this area.

Hi Jolly 14 day free area is on 95 north Mile Post 112
33 42.4380′ N     W 114 12.6398′ W
Lat 33.707289 Lon -114.210649

Plomosa  Road 14 day free area is on 95 north Mile Post 114.7
33 44.9336′ N     114 12.8839′ W
Lat 33.748884 Lon -114.214725

Dome Rock 14 day free area is west on town on Kuehen Road by Love’s Travel
33°38’57.27″N   114°16’13.37″W

Tyson Wells and South Long Term 2.8 miles south of town on 95
33 37.5875’N   114 13.0340′ W

Weather is great 88 high and 51 low.
We will leave here Tuesday morning for Goodyear, AZ (about 105 miles east) with our first Mariner’s game at 1:10 on Tuesday March 2, 2016.

Hi Jolly – Quartzsite, AZ – Saturday February 27, 2016

Here is our home in the desert:

WordPress as added a  new feature since I’ve posted a bunch of pictures.  When selecting a group of pictures wordpress creates the format.

And this is our view:
Rainbow with no rain.

This rainbow in the thin clouds was really cool, beautiful day 85 inside the motorhome.

Last night I got out and played with the 4.33 inch telescope Brian and Christine gave me for Christmas.  I looked at a planet (don’t know which one) and a bunch of stars.   I also spent a while looking at the moon, know that was cool, I actually knew what I was looking at.  I will get out and look at stars again tonight.  After our drive down here I was really tired last night, the kind of tired where you feel yourself running out of gas.

Buckskin Mountain SP, AZ – Thursday November 19, 2015

I spent some time working on the hot water heater. When Jean washed dinner dishes the other night all she had was cold water.  After testing different components I think the main controller board is out.  When we get home I’ll redo all the tests and than order a new board.  Oh, well.

Tomorrow morning we leave for home.  We will be driving and staying in rest stop and/or Walmart’s until we get home to the cold.  It has been a good trip.

Buckskin Mountain SP, AZ – Tuesday November 17, 2015

Visited Lake Havasu with the primary goal to visit The London Bridge.
We made it to town in time for the Walking London Bridge tour.  It was 90 walking tour around the bridge with a lot of interesting stories.
The bridge was purchased for 2.4 million.  Only the outside skin of this bridge is actually  from the London Bridge.
Here is a picture of the outer shell to show the thickness.  All the stones were numbered and shipped.
They left some of the numbers.
Part of the drawing to track the stones.
What looks like stone under the bridge is actually concrete colored to match the original stone on the sides.
The goal was to give the town a tourist draw and help raise property prices in hopes the town would continue to grow.  The bridge was purchased for 2.4 million and the granite which was not sent to Lake Havasu was sold in Europe for 2.4 million to people who wanted a piece of the bridge.
This is the original color of the bridge after several hundred years of London’s pollution, the bridge was cleaned and sun bleached.
We stopped at Parker Dam, this is the sun lighting up the power transmission lines,