Makes My Monday

This weekend turned out quite fun! We went to the desert to the 48th Annual Terra Del Sol Jeep Run in Truckhaven by Salton City. The weather called for 70% rain on Saturday, so I wasn't so excited about going but we are troopers and we went along with 7 other families.

We woke up Saturday morning to very pretty blue skies and nice weather.


At this jeep run, there are over 1200 jeeps register to go onto a designated path following arrows. Green arrows to stay where it's easy driving and just hanging out kind of fun. There are other colored arrows that lead to more difficult jeeping that Steve and the jeeps went on. The rhino people, including myself, stayed on the green arrows. While going on the more difficult stuff, Kevin broke his power steering pump on his jeep. The breaking of jeeps is a very common problem when you do the kind of jeeping they do with the jeeps. So it took them 2 1/2 hours to fix this. We waited for the jeeps for about 2 hours and were watching the black clouds roll in and decided we wanted to get back to the motorhomes before the rain started. The jeeps came rolling into camp about an hour later, Kevin still broke. It was very cold with a lot of wind that night.

We woke up to it raining in the desert. The ground starting getting saturated with wet sand and we were afraid to wait much longer to get the motorhome out so we wouldn't get stuck in the mud. It was coming down in a good sprinkle.


These are the skies that tell you that it is raining. As Steve started moving the motorhome, we had to go over a little bump and the back wheels started turning and spinning, yes we were stuck. We needed a tow out of this soft sand. Here they are hooking the motorhome up to this Bronco.

The bronco got us out unstuck...Thank you!! The kids actually loved being outside in the rain and spent about 30 minutes watching underneath the cover of the rhino trying to stay dry.


We still had a good weekend and just being with family and friends was fun!

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