Daily Archives: February 23, 2011
Burritos and Carnitas . . .
Today’s our last full day in Gila Bend, and we started off with some Cinnamon Amaretto Pecan coffee (two scoops of Gevalia Cinnamon, 1 scoop of HEB Texas Pecan, and Amaretto Creamers). Hmmm Good!
I called Nick about 10:30 to coordinate our trip to Yuma tomorrow. We plan on meeting up with them here in Gila Bend as they pass thru on their way from Apache Junction.
A little after 11am Jan and I headed over to Sofia’s Mexican Food for one last shot at their Shrimp Burritos and Carnitas Dinners. And their salsa is great, too. Really hot.
Our last stop was the hardware store, again. I wanted to get another AC Vent Deflector and some steel mending plates. The deflectors are held to the vent covers by magnets, but my covers are plastic and the steel screws don’t have enough surface to hold the deflectors securely.
So I added the mending plates under the screws holding the vents on.
This gives a good surface for the magnets to grip. This should hold them firmly. We’ll see tomorrow when we travel on to Yuma.
Coming back to the rig, I dropped Jan off and then went over to the CAT scales to weigh our toad. We haven’t weighed it since we did it here in Gila Bend 3 years ago on our way to Alaska. And this time I had a long stick with me.
The call button that you press to get a weight is about 8 feet off the ground since it’s supposed to be pushed from a semi cab. So a long stick is needed for the pickup. In fact, it also helps in the weighing the RV too.
The toad weighs 5570 lbs. That’s about 300 lbs. less than 3 years ago, mostly due to the fact that on our way to Alaska I was carrying a spare tire that weighed 225 lbs. I carried the spare “just in case” because all the books said it was needed.
Of course, because I had the spare, I never needed it. Never had a flat on either the rig or the toad, so I ditched it as soon as we got back to Houston.
Tomorrow I’ll weigh the coach before we leave here.
After we returned from lunch I got back on the carpet project. I finally got all the carpet up underneath Jan’s chair, and all the staples either removed, or pounded flat. The black square in the center is the mounting base for the chair.
And this is with the chair mounting plate installed. The chair itself mounts on the plate with bolts thru the 4 holes. All the motors that move and configure the chair are mounted in the base of the chair.
After we get to Yuma for a few weeks I’ll pull the driver’s chair and remove the last of the carpet underneath there. Then it will be time to start laying the laminate. Wheeee!
More tomorrow from Yuma . . .
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Thought for the Day:
All you Need to Know about Government and Bureaucracy:
Pythagorean theorem: …………………………………………………….. 24 words.
Lord’s prayer: ………………..…………………………………………………. 66 words.
Archimedes’ Principle: …………………………………………………….. 67 words.
10 Commandments: ………….…………………………………………… 179 words.
Gettysburg address: ……………………………………………………… 286 words.
Declaration of Independence………………………………………. 1,300 words.
US Government regulations on the sale of cabbage: ……….26,911 words.
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