Monthly Archives: March 2013
Lazy Days and Marathon Nights . . .
About 1pm Jan and I headed over to the FMCA Rally being held at the Lazydays RV Campground here in Tucson. We got a day pass to check out the vendors and see if they had anything new or interesting.
Jan did find a couple of things that caught her eye, and I wanted to talk to the Blue Ox guy to see about them doing a reconditioning on my Blue Ox Aventa Tow Bar. He gave me his card and said to call him tomorrow about 11am and he’d see if he could fit me in.
We also walked around and checked in with some of the vendors we know from Nick and Terry’s Gypsy Rallies. Jan said it was good to meet up with some of our RV friends because no matter where you go, they always make you feel at home.
Before we left the park we drove around a bit. Back in 2007 we stayed here for a week while we were attending our first Life on Wheels seminar. Back then it was called Beaudry RV and we had rented a CruiseAmerica Class C and spent 3 weeks driving around the southwest to be sure we really wanted to start RV’ing.
And as it turns out, we did want to.
And here we are.
Before heading home we stopped off at the Target on Old Spanish Trail so Jan could add to her bracelet collection since she still had a little space left on the bracelet holder I showed you yesterday.
She’d seen these animal style bracelet and wanted to check them out. And since she like what she saw, she came home with all four.
Getting home later in the afternoon we ended up watching a Warehouse 13 marathon on the SyFy channel. We missed a lot of episodes while we were gate guarding, so it’s nice to be able to catch up before the 5th season starts the end of April.
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Thought for the Day:
"What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living." — Doug Larson
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Pizza and Bracelets . . .
This morning was pretty much up and out the door, since we were meeting our long-time friends Al and Adrienne for lunch at Grimaldi’s Pizzeria at 11:30am. They said they’d been passing by and wanting to eat there so this was the perfect time for them to try it. And of course Jan and I certainly wouldn’t turn down a chance to eat at one of these restaurants again.
And as it turns out, Al and Adrienne liked it as much as we did. While we were there I was able to get a photo of the hand-built coal-fired pizza oven they use. As it turns out, the oven door is kind of small, but the oven interior is pretty big and extends to the sides.
We had a great time catching up with Al and Adrienne, and are going to try to get together again next week.
Saying our goodbyes, Jan and I headed out for some shopping before going home. Our first stop was a nearby Target where Jan was looking for a bracelet that she’d seen advertised, but they didn’t have them in stock, so we’ll try another one.
One thing kind of unusual was that as we were leaving Target’s parking lot, we heard a radio ad for Timekeepers. What made this unusual is that they are one of the big Gate Guard companies that hire RV’ers as oil rig gate guards, like we did last year. They didn’t give a lot of details, just said they were looking for RV’ers, paid $135 a day, furnished full hookups, and then a phone number to call. They really must be desperate for gate guards if they’re advertising on the radio. I guess they’re trying to attract some of the snowbirds before they leave Tucson.
Our next stops were an Ace Hardware and then Fry’s Foods for a few things before grabbing a couple of Cinnamon Dolce Lattes at the in-store Starbuck’s on our way out.
Finishing up, and under the heading of Never Throw Anything Away, You Might Need It, Jan had been looking for a way to keep her bracelets safe and sound while we travel. So I dug out an empty DVD case that I had been saving.
It holds her bracelets while sitting on the bathroom cabinet like this,
and then when you screw the cover on, they can be packed away for travel without damaging them.
Don’t really have anything scheduled for tomorrow. We’ll see how it goes.
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Thought for the Day:
"Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well." – John Gardner
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