FMCA Rally

Saturday, January 21, 2017

It has been a couple of busy weeks for us since leaving Casa Grande. 

We arrived in Indio for the FMCA (Family Motor Coach Association) Western Area Rally on Monday, January 9 with the Rally beginning on Thursday the 13 so we had time to poke around in Indio and to visit with neighbors and friends. Friends we made at Enchanted Trails in ABQ two years ago (Tricia and G) came into the Rally with us so they could be parked together with us and our friend Ceil who drove from ABQ to be with us at this Rally and afterwards.  It was fun to catch up on Tricia and G’s travels since we had last seen each other. 

There were over 800 Class A Motorhomes at his Rally spread out over the grassy (more dirt than grass) and concrete areas of the Riverside County Fairgrounds.  Of course, us peons (not VIP’s with FMCA or vendors or disabled) got to stay in the dirt area.  Everything was lovely until Thursday night when it began to have rain and rain and rain until Friday evening late.  The long and short is that the dirt became mushy and full of puddles and lakes and  some of the concrete areas were lakes and rivers.  It was fun stepping over and around all the puddles as we went from place to place.  Friday afternoon one had to be taken into several of the buildings because there was a lake several inches deep just outside the buildings.  What a mess.  Everyone made the best of it and enjoyed the seminars, vendor booths and evening entertainment which consisted of a group playing mostly George Strait music and country western and another the next evening being a group impersonating the Beach Boys.  Both groups were great.  On Friday night pumpers pumped out 7000,000 gallons (that is the right number) from the concrete areas.

Week Two tomorrow.