Our winter home is at Glamis North KOA, formerly known as Imperial Spa, near the Salton Sea, midway between Indio and El Centro, CA.

Our one bedroom park model is one of over 200 park models, mobilehomes, trailers and other RV's that came here each winter from all over the USA, Canada, and Europe to soak in the unlimited geothermal hot water in our three pools, five spas, and four Roman Tubs. Today, except for major holiday weekends, the park is pretty dead as many have moved out or stopped coming.

View of the "Gossip Pools" and Spas as they were in 2005 at Imperial Spa. We don't know if the mineral water has therapeutic value, but sitting in warm water with a bunch of nice people can't hurt!

The pools have been torn up and out of service since 2007 and several promised due dates have come and gone.

South of Niland, CA are the Mudpots. Geothermal hot water finds its way to the surface and spits up bits of mud which make the cones you can see behind Anne.These are not as lively as the ones in Yellowstone National Park but are still worth a visit.

In October 2003 we cruised the western Carribean. A highlight of this trip was a one-hour motor launch and two-hour bus trip out of Cozumel to see the Mayan ruins of Tulum in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

Anne's "poolmobile" is this 1973 Otis Golf Cart we acquired in 2005. Just the thing for driving to the pools, to visit friends, or to church at Imperial Spa. Also it's Jim's new hobby: when no manual could be found Jim wrote one.

The desert is full of abandoned dreams, dissolved over time by flash floods, high winds, and the hot sun.