Monthly Archives: June 2010
Last Day in Show Low…
Today is our last full day in Show Low. Tomorrow morning we start our 1000 mile trip back to Burnet, TX for our daughter Brandi’s wedding on the 21st.
We’ll get there on the 18th which gives us 6 days to make it, but we’ll only travel on 5. We want to spend an extra day in Amarillo to visit Palo Duro Canyon.
And Jan is still looking for exactly the right pair of shoes for the wedding so the extra day will give us enough time for both.
About 10 am Jan and Terry went shopping and left Nick and I to our own devices, which can be very dangerous.
Here’s Mister and Emma jockeying for a spot in the sun. But they don’t like each other, and can’t stand to look at each other, so here’s the result.
Apparently cheek-to-cheek is OK as long as it’s the other cheeks.
About 11 Nick came over and we went back to his rig to work on his website. Then we sat around and worried about how long Jan and Terry were gone, and if we’d have any money left when they got back.
When they finally did get back we sat around their rig and talked for a while. About 3:30 Jan and I walked back to our rig and napped until about 5 pm when we headed out for supper at Native New Yorker, a really good wing (and other things) place. Nick and I had wings, Terry had a tuna melt, and Jan had chicken strips. All very good.
After Jan tried the Suicide Hot Sauce that came with my wings, she decided that we needed to stop off at Dairy Queen on the way home to cool things off.
We got back to the rig a little before 7 and turned in for the night, since I still had things to do for our trip tomorrow.
More tomorrow from Magdalena, NM…
Quote of the day:
Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving. – David Letterman
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Work, work, work…
Today I spent some more time working around the coach and getting us ready to travel.
First I finished up cleaning the bugs off the top of the front cap and windshield, and then cleaned the side windows.
Next I set up a new hose reel to store the air hose that I use to add air to my rig and toad tires.
About 2 pm I went down to the Elk’s Lodge office to pay for an extra day here. Originally we were going to leave tomorrow, Saturday. But now we’ll be leaving Sunday on a 6 day, 1000 mile trip back to Austin for our daughter Brandi’s wedding. We’ll probably do it in 5, but I like having an extra day just in case we have problems.
Around 4 pm I saw a news story in the Internet about a plane crashing into the Round Valley High School in Springerville, AZ. We passed through Springerville a few days ago on our sightseeing trip out to Greer and back, and we drove right by that high school. It looks like only the two occupants of the plane were killed.
Here’s a picture of the video camera I mounted on top of the engine under the bed to monitor the operation of the PacBrake exhaust brake. That’s it being held in place by the two white TyWraps.
As I said when I posted the resulting pictures a few days ago, I’m not exactly sure how I’m going to proceed next. I probably won’t worry about it until we’re back in Texas and the wedding is over.
About 5 pm we all drove over to Licano’s Mexican Restaurant here in Show Low to have what turned out to be a great Mexican meal. And as usual we spent a lot of time telling stories, laughing, and talking. It seems like we usually spend more time talking than eating, though you couldn’t tell it by looking at me or Nick.
We got home a little before 7 pm and were in for the night.
More tomorrow…
Quote of the day:
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me. – Hunter S. Thompson
