March 2, 2010

Tuesday 2~~~~Our friends from Alcestor, South Dakota, Don and Velda Zingler(picture) invited us to their campsite in the desert at Quartzite for lunch and a "Jam Session". They are boon docking right out in the middle of the dessert with a whole bunch of other people and it was so quiet and peaceful there. Not the noise you have in the parks closer to town. Dons brother Jim, his wife Sue are camping there also, Jim plays the guitar and banjo with this group of musicians in their camp. There were 12 guitar players, 2 fiddle players, one banjo and one keyboard with people singing a song of their choice. They said to come early so we would have enough time to catch up on our visiting. What a surprise I had when we drove up to find Velda's sister Betty and Jerry Hoing(picture) were there also. I haven't seen them for many years with me living in Oregon and them living at Royal City, Washington. I went to country school with Velda and Betty and Bill and Dale Luke plus a few more kids. I was in the second grade then, we had a great visit talking over old times and how we traded our lunches and the games we played. We all went on to high school in town at Kimball, so we all knew the same people, we caught up on everyone we knew and where they lived and who married who. They also invited Dale and Jan Luke(picture) who are camping in the area at Parker, Arizona, so we really had a bunch of ex-Kimball people all together for the day. The lunch they fixed us was so good, after we ate, we took our lawn chairs over to the jam session where we enjoyed the musicians playing and singing, it made me want to get my guitar out and start playing again. Dale and Jan left early, but we stayed and went back to their camp where we visited for another hour before heading back to Yuma. What a fun day we had connecting with such good friends after so many years apart.