I reported in to my unit via my sponsor and am now stamped to look for housing, (usually a week.) Since it was such a cold surprise the first two nights without power I was/am strongly considering taking post housing.

However, if I do that, I lose $36,000.00 during my stay here if I am here for the planned 3 years. Safety comes first though, not comfort.

When the RV office opened on Tuesday at 10 am I made my way there and was very happy to realize the spot I'd been eyeing as I drove by for the last two days was recently available due to a contractor moving out!! Score!! Even though they only offer weekly parking with a month maximum there is one exclusion. Since I am a nurse and need to live close to work, all I need is a letter from my commander saying I am stationed here as a nurse and that gives the RV park permission to allow me to homestead here while stationed! Very nice!

Next my neighbor came home for supplies at lunch and he is a married contractor who knows RVs and electric and he gave me advice and helped me with my heater so I could get through another cold winter night. Thank goodness!!!

I was also very pleasantly surprised that the park does have clean port-a-potties throughout the park, that helps too.

Today I have to caulk all my trailer windows, batten down some hatches and get a few more things ready. I plan to check with housing to see if there is a deadline where I am able to get on post housing, just in case I get further into the year and feel it isn't viable for me and Marco to stay here. However, I do not want to take housing just out of convenience because this trailer is nice, I'm comfy in it, I'm never home anyway other than to sleep, I never have visitors and throwing away $36K just to have an apartment isn't attractive to me. :)

Todays pic is my new spot for my time here.

As I settled in for a very cold night I couldn't help but remember how nice, warm and sunny it was my last day in Arizona for my photo shoot with Armando Kimaya, (my furnace would not start, I'll make next entry back to the trailer.)

Armando and I shot in a beautiful place. It was a trade/test shoot with no pressure since we were just meeting each other. I'll share a link to one of the shots he took of me. http://iconosquare.com/viewer.php#/detail/1176190438553517899_586163166

It was such a gorgeous place I took some quick shots while walking to our destination from the very crowded parking lot. I also asked Mando, (Mondo,) if I could take his picture too. He agreed and here is one I took of him. Wonderful photographer, I highly recommend him.

I headed out of the warm Arizona weather in the morning and had a very pretty drive all the way to Needles via Rt 10 to 95 and once on I 40 the wind was very strong. The truck handled the trailer very well. The storm I'd hoped to miss was in sight, to the southwest, and to the direct west was a huge cloud of dust. This was the first time I ever saw this and it was impressive.

Driving was slow up the elevation and with the wind, thankfully the over the road semi drivers were keeping the pace. Again, this trailer is very aerodynamic and the truck was strong enough to haul it without any undue concern from me, at all.

Marco rode like a boss again, lucky me!

Just after getting off of I-40 I ran into some rain but the sun made a brief visit and a full rainbow literally had one of its ends directly on the road I was driving too. Nice sign.

I made it to the RV park on post here around 5 pm, they were closed for Sunday and Monday so I picked an overflow spot way on the end, with no hook up and got the trailer backing in just in time for a very cold rainstorm followed by strong wind. That storm I saw all day was powerful and apparently I'd been driving just ahead of it!

The first wave passed and I saw more sun, then a double rainbow! I jumped out to take a shot just before our second downpour of the night. Oh, it was a very windy night too. The trailer was swooshing and shaking like a carnival ride but, thankfully it is aerodynamic. I finally figured I was safe to go to sleep because there were about 50 other trailers here, (and one like mine.) I figured we might wake up in a slightly different space thank we parked but, this was it.