Monthly Archives: March 2010
Wash and Wax…
Today was our last full day in Yuma. Tomorrow we will head north toward Las Vegas, NV.
We plan on boondocking in Laughlin tomorrow night and then head on to Las Vegas on Wednesday.
We’ll be traveling with our friends Nick and Terry Russell, and plan on spending about a week in Vegas before splitting up.
So today was prep day for tomorrow’s travel. We started off by dropping by Al’s RV Store to pick a Day-Night Shade restringing kit and a new frig fan.
Then after a few back and forth phone calls we met Nick and Terry at Chretin’s Mexican Restaurant for the Buffet Lunch. Just as we were finishing up with lunch, Joe and Vicki Kieva walked in. We first met Joe and Vicki several years ago at a Life on Wheels rally in Tucson, and our paths have crossed several times since. They were seminar presenters at the Gypsy Journal Rally here in Yuma and have known Nick and Terry for a good while.
Then it was on to those obligatory prep day stops, Sam’s Club and, of course, WalMart.
We rushed to get back to the rig before 2pm since we were expecting the Road Runner RV Wash people show up between 2 and 4pm.
And, of course, they didn’t show up until almost 5:30pm. But they swarmed over our rigs, washing and hand-waxing them.
I don’t think Beauty has looked this shiny since we bought her. But she sure sparkles now.
For $10 extra they also washed and waxed our tow vehicles.
Then after they finished up, Nick, Terry, Jan, and I drove over to Mimi’s Cafe for dinner. This was our 2nd time there, and, as before, we really enjoyed it.
We plan on heading out about 9 tomorrow morning. but before that, we’ll stop off at the fairground’s dump station to lighten our load.
Then it’s VIVA LAS VEGAS, baby!
More tomorrow from Laughlin…
Jellin’ in Yuma…
Sorry about the recent ‘Technical Difficulties”. For some unknown reason the blog sometimes just won’t let me login. Still trying to track down the problem.
We’re still in Yuma, just resting up. As usual our plans on where to go next are written in Jello.
The biggest change is Big News.
Our daughter Brandi is engaged. She sent us this picture to tell us the good news.
They have scheduled the wedding for June 21st and we are going to be back in Texas for the wedding.
They’re going to be married at a small wedding chapel in the Texas Hill Country near Austin.
The place is called Chapel Dulcinea and it really looks beautiful.
So we will not be spending as much time as we had originally planned out west, but we’ll head back toward Texas around the middle of June and then maybe over to Gulf Shores before heading up to Louisville, KY for a big rally, i.e. The Rally around the 3rd week in July.
This is probably the biggest RV rally in the country, and it has top of the line entertainemnt. This year two of the acts scheduled are Bob Newhart and Tanya Tucker.
After that we plan on heading up to Elkhart, IN for the Eastern Gypsy Journal Rally around the end of August. We want to get there early since we want to see about having some body work and painting done on the coach.
But we’ll see. Our plans are written in Jello after all.
More tomorrow…
