Daily Archives: March 29, 2011
Interstates and Ferry Hawks . . .
Jan and I both slept late this morning so no time for coffee before we had to be ready at 10:30 to head out to Camping World with Nick and Terry. We were taking separate cars since we were going to split up after that.
I wanted to pick up a grey water valve to complete my set, and while there the new issue of “The Next Exit” caught my eye. In case you’re not familiar with it, “The Next Exit” lists every exit on every Interstate in every state in the US.
It also tells you what stores, gas stations, restaurants, etc. are located there, and whether or not, diesel is available and if you can get a big RV in the station. It also shows rest areas and pull-overs. All in all, very useful.
But last year, after I had already bought the 2010 “Next Exit”, I came across a new one from Good Sam’s and Camping World called “Exit Now”.
Although it’s more expensive ($16 vs. $10 on Amazon), “Exit Now” is spiral-bound and uses much better quality paper. And the brighter-white paper should be easier to read compared to the newsprint-type paper used in “The Next Exit”. So it looks like in 2011 we’ll be giving “Exit Now” a try. We’ll see how it goes. While there Terry picked up a new faucet for the bathroom and some light bulbs.
Leaving Camping World, Nick and Terry headed over to see Nick’s cousin Beverly, while Jan and I headed toward Corona de Tucson, a small town south of the Pima County Fairground on S. Houghton Rd. We were meeting Al & Adrienne at Argenziano’s, an Italian restaurant they like.
Getting there about 10 minutes early we stopped at the Ace Hardware next door, but ran out of time before I found what I wanted.
Argenziano’s was really good, with Al & Adrienne splitting a pizza, while Jan had ravioli stuffed with roasted garlic and shrimp, and I had spaghetti and meatballs. We had our usual good time with them and made plans to have dinner tomorrow night, our last night in Tucson, hopefully.
I say ‘hopefully’, because it depends on our getting our Thousand Trails membership number tomorrow. We’ll see how it goes.
Leaving the restaurant and Al & Adrienne, we went back next door to Ace Hardware to finish up our shopping. Heading back to the fairgrounds, we detoured to get gas and stop off at Fry’s to pick up a few groceries, and while we were there, I talked to Thousand Trails to see how our membership processing was going. Again, ‘hopefully’, we’ll have our number tomorrow.
Later, we left the rig about 5 to meet Nick, Terry, and Beverly at Chuy’s – Tucson. It turned out to be more bar & grill than restaurant, and you had to order at the counter, but the food was good, even though the service was spotty because they were so busy.
Nick and Terry are leaving here tomorrow and heading up to Verde Valley Thousand Trails RV park near Camp Verde, AZ. Hopefully, there’s that word again, ‘hopefully’, we’ll follow them on Thursday . . . or Friday . . . or when we get our TT membership number. Hopefully.
We got home a little before 7 and were down for the night. Nick and Terry are leaving about 10 so we’ll be up in time to see them off.
I’ve reposted some more of our time in the High Sierras last year.
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Thought for the Day:
“Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.” – Otto Von Bismarck
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Clean today…Road trip tomorrow
Posted on May 1, 2010
Today we started off with breakfast at Pete’s Place and it was just as good as last time. Then, on the way home we stopped off to get gas for our road trip tomorrow.
Getting back to the park I stopped by the office to extend our stay by one day. We now plan on leaving Wednesday morning.
Jan had designated today as Cleaning Day, so we went thru the coach, dusting, cleaning, tidying up, moping, vacuuming, etc., ‘til everything was spic and span.
Around 12:45 pm Jan noticed a large bird in a tree right across from us. It was so large that at first I thought it was an eagle, but after a little research I think it’s a Ferry Hawk, or Ferruginous Hawk. Apparently it is often mistaken for an eagle because it is so large.
That is a beautiful bird!
This was a very popular tree limb. A little later a Acorn Woodpecker showed up.
Next, another bluebird showed up, again on the same limb.
About 5 pm we drove over to pick up our friends, George and Sandy Stoltz for supper at El Cid Mexican Restaurant. We had a great time getting to spend some time with them. And it was really nice for our friend Nick Russell to treat us to dinner. Thanks, Nick.
Tomorrow we are taking a road trip about 180 miles to San Simeon on the coast to visit the Hearst Castle, and spend some time driving down the coast to Morro Bay and Pismo Beach. We’ll probably stay overnight and come back on Monday.
More tomorrow…
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