Monthly Archives: March 2013
The Circus Must Be In Town . . .
A Camp Host showed up a little before noon with some packages from Amazon. One of them was my dually tire extensions
It only took a few minutes to get them installed and ready to go. Next time I have some tire work done I’m going to make sure I get my own extensions back.
A little after noon Chris and Charles headed out in their rig to the Freightliner shop to have some work done.
After they got back a few hours later, Jan and I went next door so I could work on Chris and Charles’ website for the GMAC insurance and Good Sam’s RV products that they sell. We made a good bit of progress before we decided it was time for supper.
So a little before 5pm we all headed out to have dinner at Silver Saddle SteakHouse, rated one of the best steakhouses in Tucson. And if you don’t believe it, you can watch them grill your steak right off the dining room.
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Chris, Charles, and I all had the Combo Platter, which had ribs, chicken, and steak. You can’t get much better than that. Jan had a Sirloin Steak that she said was delicious.
This is one place we’re sure to go every time we visit Tucson.
As we were leaving the restaurant, Jan was talking to a friend on her cellphone and was trying to get outside so she could hear better. But as she was waiting at the door, a string of about 20-25 people came streaming in, one after the other. Finally, frustrated that she couldn’t get outside, Jan turned to me and said, “Are they coming out of a clown car?” Unfortunately she said it a little louder than she intended and the guy holding the door open for everyone gave us dirty look.
I tried to see if he was wearing really large shoes but he clopped away before I could get a look.
Getting back to our rigs, we sat around for a while at Chris and Charles’ before finally heading home about 8.
Tomorrow we’re meeting our local friends Al and Adrienne for lunch at Grimaldi’s Pizzeria. We haven’t seen them since last year so it will be good to see them again.
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Thought for the Day:
"A man is as young as the woman he feels." – Groucho
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Delorme and Silverleaf . . .
After Jan and I had a nice, quiet morning here at the Pima County Fairgrounds RV Park, we headed out a little after 1pm for a couple of errands, the main one being Sam’s Club to pick up one of Jan’s prescriptions, and a couple of other things. Coming back in the direction of the park we drove down Campbell Ave to check out the location of the new Grimaldi’s Pizzeria here in Tucson. After our visit to the one in San Antonio a week or so ago, we certainly want to eat here before we leave.
Chris Yust, our GMAC Insurance rep had called earlier in the day to say they were heading this way and wanting directions to the park here. They were coming in from Yuma to a rally that starts here on Wednesday.
Later in the afternoon I stowed away the Acer laptop that I used to display my Delorme Street Atlas GPS mapping program and my Silverleaf engine computer display.
In checking the display before I shut it down, I was surprised to find that, even with the heavy headwinds we encountered coming to Tucson from Las Cruces, I used 31.2 gallons of diesel for a total of 259.1 miles traveled. This makes it 8.3 mpg, not bad for the trip at 55-60 mph.
I also finished mapping out all the RV parks we’ve stayed at in the last 5+ years. That’s 267 parks ranging from Key West, FL to Fairbanks, AK, and from San Diego to Nova Scotia, Canada.
We’ve actually been all the way out to Newfoundland, but we left the RV in Louisbourg, NS and just took the truck over on the ferry, staying in B & B’s as we traveled down the 500 mile length of the island.
Of course in 5 years we’ve spend more than 267 nights on the road, but we’ve stayed at many of these parks multiple times. For example, we’ve stayed here at Pima County Fairgrounds RV Park 4 times, and other parks as many as 5 times. When you find a good park in an area, you tend to stick with it.
Later, after Chris and Charles Yust had arrived and got parked and set up, we all headed out to Luckie’s Thai, our favorite local Chinese place. And yes, I know it’s says Thai, but they have a full Chinese menu too. We’ll go back again.
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Thought for the Day:
“Science could cure AIDS, cancer, and the common cold by noon on Tuesday, and the news media would still find a way of making it sound like a bad day.” – Eolake Stobblehouse
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