Our RV Adventures

Once again this morning started out with coffee about 9:30 and some website work for clients. Then about 10:30 Jan and Terry set up an outing for us for lunch, shopping, and errands.

So around noon, Nick, Terry, Jan, and I headed over to the Miracle Mile area of Tucson. Our first stop was to drop off some mail at the Post Office and then on to Luke’s Italian Beef, a place Nick has been eating at for years. A Chicago-style sandwich shop, they serve a variety of beef sandwiches, cheesesteaks, hot dogs, and Polish sausage. Nick, Terry, and Jan had an Italian Beef sandwich with Provolone cheese, while I had a Polish Sausage Dog, Chicago Style. We all had orders of their great fries. They’re really crispy because they’re fried twice.

After a delicious lunch, we headed west out of town toward the Tucson Mountain Park and Gate’s Pass scenic areas.

We had been thru some of this area before a while back when our friends Al and Adrienne took us out to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum that is located here. But this time we made a giant loop coming back into Tucson by a different, very scenic route.

Our first stop back in town was Wal-Mart for some needed supplies, before heading over Nick’s cousin Bev’s place for a visit.

Then it was on to Trader Joe’s, a western-based U.S. chain, similar to Whole Foods, selling mostly natural and organic foods, it’s a fun place to find products you don’t see in many other stores.

We finally got back home about 6pm, and, after putting away our groceries and checking our emails, we all headed out about 7 to take Nick to DQ.

It was his reward for his rapid recovery from his recent hallucinogenic episode, where he fantasied that I had somehow damaged my coach. I think he’s now seen the error of his ways, and knows that with another relapse it’ll be no more DQ for him.

Tomorrow we all plan on revisiting the Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch up I-10 in the Picacho Peak area between here and Phoenix.

More tomorrow . . .

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Thought for the Day:

… that he is incapable of staying on the river of a thought, and is constantly lured down tributaries from which he can never quite work his way back — you can see him batting the little paddles of his mind against the weeds, trying desperately to return to the river but not remembering where it is, or where it was going.”

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I got up about 9:30 just in time for Nick to call to tell us his next-door neighbor was getting ready to pull out. We had already arranged it with the office that we would move into that 50amp site as soon as they left, but they said to move into it or block it off as soon as it was empty since sometimes regulars park first before coming to the office to register. So as soon as the 5’er pulled out I pulled my truck into the site.

Nick seemed perfectly rational at this point.

After having coffee and taking our time, we finally moved the rig about 12 noon. ending up 3 spaces away in site 404. I then went down to the office to get my parking sheet changed to my new site number, and let them know my old site was available

It was when I came back to the rig that the problem surfaced.

My good friend, Nick Russell seems to have suffered some sort of psychotic nervous breakdown and had started babbling nonsense about me pulling out without unhooking my power cord, and ripping it loose.

He apparently even managed to Photoshop some fake pictures to post on his blog, of something that happened only in his warped imagination.

As you can see from this photo of our site hookups, there is no problem and everything is functioning fine.

Please post on his blog and give him your sympathy and best wishes, for a speedy recovery from this tragic breakdown.

Personally I think it can be blamed on too much DQ.  He probably just needs to go cold-turkey and stay away from chocolate milkshakes for the next year or so.

Hopefully he’ll make it thru this episode and be back to his old self soon.

After I got parked and set up, I pulled my extension ladder from the truck and used it to move my solar screens to the outside of the windshield from the inside. The front of the rig points directly west into the afternoon sun and the A/C is hard pressed to keep up with the load.

After moving the screens, it’s quickly obvious that this has made a big difference in the heat coming into the rig. It also helps that we can run both A/C’s on 50amps.

After all that work, it seemed like a good time for a short nap.

I like naps.

A little after 5 we headed over to Voyager RV Resort to have dinner with our good friends, Al & Adrienne. We first met them in 2008 while we were in Fairbanks, Alaska. They were working for the cruise line, Holland America, and Jan and I were workamping at Chena Marina RV Park.

We quickly became fast friends and get together whenever we can. Last year we saw them twice, once in February 2010 here in Tucson when we came thru, and then again in May in Westport, WA where they were workamping for the summer.

When we came thru Tucson a few weeks ago, they were on a RV caravan trip down thru Baja, Mexico, so we were happy that our travels brought us back this way. And hopefully we’ll be able to see them again this summer in Cody, WY when we’re up that way.

After a delicious steak dinner prepared by Al & Adrienne, and a lot of great conversation and reminiscing, we headed home a little before 9, after a busy day. We agreed that we’ll plan on getting together a couple of more times before we leave.

Finally, be sure to keep Nick in your prayers and post your get-well wishes on his blog.

As you know, Nick needs all the help he can get, and you need to do your part.

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Thought for the Day:

Some minds are like cement; thoroughly mixed up and permanently set…

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