ROCKWOOD WEST

FEBRUARY 2015

NEWSLETTER

 

 

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE:

 

Wow what a great start we have for 2015! Thank you Bernie and Carol for putting on the Quartzsite Rally. This has been one of the very best turnouts we have had since Mary Lee and I have been been with Rockwood West.
Again a warm welcome to our new members, Bob and Teddie Opteyndt, it was great seeing you at Quartzsite.

Some of our group went on to Alamo Lake State Park where we continued a good time including evening campfires along with movie time supplied by Nick and Ramona Escamilla. (Billy Crystal in City Slickers and Robin Williams in The Bird Cage). Nick has a video projector with a "huge" screen. Thanks Nick.

At Quartzsite I mentioned that we need to add more rallies for the 2015 calendar. Cookie and Hal are working on the Imperial-Yuma event and will have a flyer out soon.  I know others have volunteered to have a rally but we don't have them "cast in stone" yet. Please get your commitments to Mary Lee so we can get them on the calendar.

See ya all soon,

Steve Smith

President



Editor's Note:  No meeting was held at the January rally and therefore there were no minutes.  The following report is from the January rally in Quartzsite, AZ.


WAGONMASTERS' REPORT:

Quartzsite 2015
 

Thanks to everyone who came to Quartzsite. We had 12 motor homes and 2 trailers. The weather was good every day but one when it was windy. We had a bonfire every night except for the windy one.  A lot of shopping was done during the week, everything from the usual to the Murrell’s motor home, to Strobel’s new antenna. Dick and Kathy Hug (our friends from CO) bought new batteries, had a hitch repaired and numerous other things after a very adventurous trip to the get-together. They told us they enjoyed themselves even after their trip out. The trip home for them was a normal trip. There were a few windshields repaired and Escamilla’s had the motor home windshield replaced.  As usual we had a lot of great food and visiting, getting caught up with everyone.Thanks for all the firewood. We even had some left for the ones that went to Alamo Lake.  It made our first time experience as wagon masters a great one.
 

Bernie and Carol Juliar

Lake Alamo Sunset, top 4 photos by Rich Strobel

Looking down at our camping area

Rock House

Rockwood West "Explorers"

Movie at Lake Alamo, photo by Gary Kuske