Harry Rhoades

     This is part of these two that I forgot to add when I posted the last two parts.

    

Hey Folks;      

     Just read the post by green machine about “Texas George”.  Sounds like someone I need to meet.  GOD knows I could use as much help as I can get.  Maybe it’d be an experience I could write about.  Y’all take care now.  GOD bless. 

Later.                                                                                                                 Harry

Hey granny;      

     I can’t post that often because I’m on a laptop with internet service through a cell phone company and my time on air is extremely limited from what I used to have.  Nothing is wrong just can’t get back on the road right now.  Things will get better when I get everything done here that I have to do and am able to leave this place.  My feet are starting to itch pretty bad.  Thank you for your well wishes.  I have to talk to someone from medicare Thursday and after that maybe I can see a doctor and get something to help me get over this cold.  I will post another update as soon as I have something to report.  Y’all take care now.  GOD bless.  Later.                                                                                                                   Harry

Hey russau, hey granny;      

     I want to thank both of you for your suggestions.  I’ve already checked the wiring and the thermostat.  No bad or loose or dirty or sticking connections.  If the other is the problem, I’ll have to get someone that knows a little more about these kind of units than I do.  Its inside under a closet and I can’t even see the pilot light much less be able to get to it to check it out.  I just turned it off completely at the thermostat and got a couple of electric heaters which heat the motor home better than it did anyway.  I’m just glad that they don’t charge extra for electricity at this park.  Thanks again, both of you.  Y’all take care now.  GOD bless.  Later.                                                                                                                        Harry

Hey downhome;      

     Please accept my apology for not responding sooner.  I didn’t mean to skip you.  My mind was focused on the advice that russau gave and I’m afraid I just forgot.  I am sorry!!  The cons from Crisson Mine were the best I’ve gotten so far.  I wish every place produced that amount of gold from the same amount of dirt.  My disappointment is that I paid to get that much and didn’t actually dig it up myself.  Maybe if I’d spent more time in the other places I’ve been I might have found that much and hopefully more at them.  Anyway, I’m not disappointed in the amount I got there.  It was way more than Consolidated.  Take care now.  GOD bless.  Later.                                                                                                                     Harry

Hey granny;      

    

     Send some of that weather this way.  It looks like I’m going to be here at least through a few days in Feb. and I don’t see much change in the forcast.  The only thing I miss about the gulf coast is the tee shirt weather in the middle of winter.  Y’all take care now.  GOD bless.  Later.                                                                                                                            Harry

Hey Folks;      

    

     Just thought I would stop by and say hi to everybody since it’s been about a week since my last post.  After the weather we’ve had in the southwest between here and California I think I know why I haven’t been able to get away from where I’m at.  I think somebody knew where I would be when all this hit and set it up where I couldn’t go anywhere for a while.  From what I’ve seen, I hope all you folks that winter in Quartzsite, Arizona didn’t mind getting your feet wet and it looks like the river is a risin so you folks take care and get ready to break camp if need be.  I hope nobody gets caught up in the really bad stuff.  Looks like it’s fixin to dry out here and turn a little colder again.  Maybe another day or so of rain.  Wish some of that warm weather that granny was talking about would move in.  I hate cold weather.  Well, I guess that’s all for now.  Y’all take care now.  GOD bless.  Later. 

                                                                                                                                          Harry

Hey russau;    

    

     Sorry russau.  I guess I thought I had said so much about trying to get started on this trip over the past couple of years that I thought I had already mentioned the whys and wherefores.      

     I’ve been wanting to take a trip for a long time to get started gold prospecting.  Over the past couple of years I developed an interest in rock hounding and Cowboy Action Shooting after watching programs on the Outdoor Channel and the Travel Channel.  Well as thing would have it, the VA and Soc. Sec. finally got off of their respective astroid orifices and started paying me my disability and finally agreed to pay me back disability from the time they said I qualified.  That finally gave me the money I needed to get started.  Then other things happened and I had no more responsibilities in Mobile.  And, Mobile, the town I was born in, no longer felt like home to me so I had no reason to stick around anymore.  I was jumping for joy.  I wasn’t needed or wanted for anything anymore.  I was free to do a few things I wanted to do so I left and have no reason to go back.  I have lived in California and have a reason to head that way so I figured, why not do a little prospecting, rock hounding and cowboy action shooting along the way.  I have no specific time or date to be there and have been given no reason to rush so, my time is in GOD’s hands.  Wherever HE leads or if HE doesn’t I’ll just travel until HE does or until I get tired of traveling and decide to settle down.      

     I’ve been where all my time was obligated to other people or jobs or some kind of circumstance to where my time was never my own.  I always had someone or something else that came before me and what I wanted.  Now the only one I answer to is GOD.  And, that makes me REAL happy.  I’m pretty sure that the reason I’m still in Hatch, NM is that is where HE wants me right now.  For whatever reason I don’t know yet unless it’s because of the bad weather that’s been west of here.  HE probably knew where I would be when it hit and decided HE didn’t want me there when it did.  Anyway, I’ll get on with my trip when every thing is finished here that I know about unless something else comes up.  But, when it’s HIS time, I’ll get back on the road.  I wish everybody only had to be responsible to HIM.  I think this world would be a lot better off.  If everybody started putting HIM first before everybody and everything else, it would be a start.  They might find out that if they did, HE would take care of everything else and make it work out the way HE want’s everything too.  I hope I’ve answered your question.  If I left anything out, let me know and I’ll try to answer it.  Take care now.  GOD bless.  Later.                                                                                                                             Harry       

Hello Folks;

 

     You know it seems like it’s one thing after another.  I woke up in the middle of the night Friday night and my heater wasn’t running.  So Saturday I took it back to the dealer and had them look at it.  The shop man checked it out and said it was a loose wire.  The salesman that sold me the thing said that was the last time they would repair anything on the RV without charging me.  I left and it worked fine until Monday morning about 4 O’clock.  I noticed it wasn’t running again.  I checked the wires the shop man said were the problem and everything was connected.  Looks like they only do temporary fixes.  Instead of going back and them charging me for fixing what they didn’t fix Saturday, I went out and bought a couple of electric heaters.  Good thing you don’t have to pay extra for electricity at this park. 

 

     I also noticed that when I left the driveway leaving the park that my rudder was dragging bottom.  It seems that my aft was low in the water because of the load I was carrying was all stored astern.  For all you landlubbers, that means that my trailer hitch was scraping cement because the back bedroom in the RV is my storeroom and I had too much weight back there causing it to ride low.  That explanation is just in case there is someone out there that didn’t know what I was talking about.  So, I figured instead of just sitting around on my intelligence, I would get up off of it and re arrange things to eliminate that problem.  I won’t go into detail about what all I’m doing but I’m re-arranging my whole living quarters in the process.  Needless to say, I’m staying kinda busy.  Just thought I give you an update to let you know that I’m not just sitting here twiddling my thumbs.  The time goes a little faster this way and it’s hard to stay bored when you have to use your imagination to get everything stored in a way that you still have room to stand up and turn around.  I hope everybody had a great Christmas and New Year Holiday season.  I can hardly wait to get back on the road.  As soon as I find out about locations, I’ll be deciding where to go from here.

    

     Well its a few days later and I’m still sitting here.  Good news is I got my GPAA Mining Guide Thursday afternoon, started reading it Friday and realized my prospecting permit needs to be updated.  It also got down to somewhere between 15 and 19 degrees by Saturday morning.  My little electric heaters don’t work as well as I hoped they would.  But, it didn’t kill me.  I went out and got some weather stripping to go around the door where most of the air was coming from but I didn’t get enough and Saturday night got down into the mid 20s.  Brrrrrrrrrrr.  Anybody got any extra heaters?  Just kidding.  I’ve go some more work to do to this thing and get my permit and get things straightened out with Social Security and maybe see a doctor if I don’t feel better before time to leave.  I’m also looking around for a Single Action Shooting Society competition in the immediate area.  I went out and got my Cowboy Clothes, my guns and some ammo before I left Mobile and haven’t run across one anywhere near where I was whenever I stopped someplace.  With the exception of the one in Truth or Consequences and the one in Las Cruces right after I got here but my circumstances kept me from going.  Meaning the condition of this RV.

     Maybe the man that runs the rock shop in Hillsboro will be back in his shop by the time I get ready to go but I think I might still have to go by that Gov. Agency in Silver City before I actually get out and do some prospecting.  So far, it still looks like it’s going to be February before I get to leave Hatch anyway.  But this time, I hope I have everything in order when I do.  You know?  I can’t help but wondering if I had this RV repainted with ads for Gold Fever, Gold Prospecting, Cowboy Action Shooting, Shooting USA and others like these on the Outdoor Channel, if they would be willing to pay me a few dollars that would help cover expenses for being a moving advertisement.   Y’all take care now.  GOD bless.  Later.

                                                                                                                      

                                                                                                                          Harry