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Wheels and Doris Wheeler

WBCCI # 3436

Hobo Rally January 2013



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We left for warmer southern climates on Jan 23. We stopped in Beatty the first night then on to Lake Havasu City for 4 days to visit Doris’ brother and his wife and her sister and her husband. It was a good visit. Monday we left for Blythe. Our departure was delayed a little past the planned time as I tried to fix the bolt lock on the trailer. I didn’t get it fixed then and I have been working on it since I have been home and may get it fixed before the Overland luncheon. We arrived at the Hobo Rally about 1:30 PM. They had rain the day before and the grass parking area was wet and muddy so they parked us in a back gravel area. There were nine rigs in this back area. One was a 2010 long (I think 34 foot) toy hauler like trailer. It had an upward swinging door and a ramp in the back end which allowed them to store their motor cycle and peddle bike there. It looked big enough for and ATV. They said there were only 19 produced. In all I think there were about 93 rigs at the rally. We were parked next to a pair of Aluminum motor homes from Canada. They were great neighbors. Surprisingly, there was not a large Vintage contingent there. There were many trailers and motor homes there for the IBT.

Monday was sign-in by unit and sign-up for activities. Activities included: Indoor and Outdoor games, Hobby/Craft Show, Swap-N-Sell, Pet Show, Tours of Prison and Palo Valley, Wheel Bearing Seminar, Hitch Seminar, Hobo Stew Can construction, Women’s hair demonstration, Driver safety program by CHP, Quartzite Shopping tour and SkyMed presentation. They collected toys for the children of prisoners in the Chuckawalla Prison. We attended a First Timers (first time to Hobo) seminar on Monday. There was nothing new in the seminar. We had daisy chain water service and very limited (they said 3 amp) electrical power. I ran the generator once so Doris could us the microwave.

They provided some sort of breakfast each morning and dinner 3 of the 5 evenings. They had a Social/Happy hour everyday at 4 – 5 PM. They put together a small band that played almost every evening after dinner. Each evening at 7:15 PM the pertinent announcements for the next day were made. This was usually followed by some sort of entertainment: Blythe High School Band, Bingo, Robert Stansbury signing concert, Jerry Prunty singing and guitar concert and Saturday the Fairgrounds had a car race on their Race Track.

Each day was taken up by the activities listed above. There was plenty of free time. I played mostly indoor games. Doris showed off Andy (our Sheltie) at the pet show. We found time to do the laundry. We didn’t go on the prison tour. That was a mistake. Doris’ nephew works at the prison and volunteered to greet the tour members that day hoping to see Doris and me.

Saturday was the big day with the Hobo Parade (about half a block), selection and coronation of the Hobo King and Queen, selection of the best (33 day old) beard topped off with the Hobo Stew feast served in your own custom built Hobo Stew can. The judges for the selection of the Hobo King and Queen and the best beard were three Fair Ambassadors (three High School Senior girls that won the fair contest for Fair Ambassadors). The surprising thing was that your president was selected the Hobo King. Doris wasn’t selected but she competed well. The selected Queen was from Washington. I was a runner up for the beard contest but not selected. Besides the great honor of being selected Hobo King and Queen we were crowned by the reigning King and Queen, presented a very nice trophy and a very nice captains chairs with Hobo King (or Queen) 2013 printed on the back. I’ll bring the trophy to the Overland luncheon for everyone to see. I’ll have the chair at Lahontan rally.

We departed Blythe early Sunday morning and stayed at March ARB FamCamp in Riverside that evening. Monday morning we braved the Los Angeles valley traffic and travelled to the Wine Country RV Resort in Paso Robles for a 4 day rally with a military RV group I belong to. We left there Friday and traveled north to Travis AFB in Fairfield CA and stayed overnight in their FamCamp. There my LP Gas Detector failed. It flashed a yellow light and chirped every 30 seconds. The book says these symptoms indicate a system fault and may be reset by the test button, if not call the manufacturer. As you might expect it would not reset and when I called they said it had to be replaced. For $88.75 they sent me a new one. Of course, it is a slightly different shape than the one I had and I had to enlarge the hole in the panel to get it to fit. Thankfully it wasn’t much smaller. We had an uneventful return home over I-80. We were all happy to be home. See you all soon











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