Monthly Archives: May 2013
Road Kill and Belt Clips . . .
About 12:30 this afternoon I walked over to the park guard house to pick up the Amazon package that had come in for me. I had ordered s new belt clip for my Samsung Droid Charge.
My original one had finally given up the ghost and I thought about not getting one since I’ll probably be getting a new phone later this summer, but I don’t like carrying my phone in my pocket. For one thing, I can’t hear it ring in my pocket.
Our daughter Brandi called about 2:30 to check in and let us know that the closing on their new home has been pushed back because all the cabinets haven’t come in, and the mortgage company keeps asking for additional paperwork. Lowell said he wants to know why they don’t just ask for everything need at the very beginning.
We had the same experiences when we bought our homes too.
About 3:30 Jan and I headed out for the afternoon. Our first stop was the Camping World down in Henderson . . . again. I’d been looking for the Bulldog panel latches that I needed, but I didn’t find them. But this time I knew what they were called and had a Camping World part number. And with those I had no problem finding them,
As I was leaving the store, I got a call from Jim Dean, He and his wife Peri are blog readers and just arrived here at the Thousand Trails park today. So we’re going to try and get together for dinner tomorrow
Finishing up at Camping World we then headed up to north Las Vegas to check out John Mull’s Meats and Road Kill Grill. We had seen a Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives episode about this place and wanted to give it a try.
John Mull’s
The place is pretty unassuming, and is actually in what seems to be a residential neighborhood.
And as it turns out, they only have outside dining.
They were pretty busy when we got there, with two lines inside, all waiting patiently for this really good BBQ.
The menu is pretty basic, with just Hot Links, Brisket, Pulled Port, Ribs, Grilled Chicken, and BBQ Chicken, and of course, the sides.
Jan had a Brisket Dinner with Green Beans and Mac N Cheese, and I had a two meat combo with Hot Links and Ribs, with Green Beans and Baked Beans.
Really, really good, and the servings were big enough that we had leftovers to bring home.
Well worth the trip up north.
Heading home we made a stopover at a Wal-Mart for a few things before finally getting back to the rig a little after 6:30.
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Thought for the Day:
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians — Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
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John Mull’s
The place is pretty unassuming, and is actually in what seems to be a residential neighborhood.
And as it turns out, they only have outside dining.
They were pretty busy when we got there, with two lines inside, all waiting patiently for this really good BBQ.
The menu is pretty basic, with just Hot Links, Brisket, Pulled Port, Ribs, Grilled Chicken, and BBQ Chicken, and of course, the sides.
Jan had a Brisket Dinner with Green Beans and Mac N Cheese, and I had a two meat combo with Hot Links and Ribs, with Green Beans and Baked Beans.
Really, really good, and the servings were big enough that we had leftovers to bring home.
Well worth the trip up north.
Heading home we made a stopover at a Wal-Mart for a few things before finally getting back to the rig a little after 6:30.
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Thought for the Day:
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians — Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
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Look, there’s one . . .
Today brought us something we haven’t seen in months – Rain!
It’s actually the first rain we’ve seen since we left the Houston area back in February. It started around 11:30 and went on for a couple of hours, in fact, heavy enough that it knocked the satellite TV out for about 30 minutes. I think over the course of the day we got about a inch of rain.
But with the rain came cooler weather, with it only making it to 73 today, and staying in the 70’s for the next couple of days. And apparently we may still have some more rain coming up.
And on the subject of weather, I was checking the weather in South Lake Tahoe, CA, where we’ll be in a little over a week, and the high today was 46 degrees with 35 tonight. And by the time we get there in 10 days we’re looking at temps in the 60’s and 40’s. Perfect weather for us.
About 4pm Jan and I headed out for dinner and a drive around town. Our first stop was the Macayo’s Mexican Kitchen on E. Tropicana, a place recommended by one of our blog readers, who wanted to know how it compares with Lindo Michoacan where we ate a few days ago.
And, although Macayo’s is good, unfortunately it’s not quite up to Lindo. But as a trade-off, It’s closer to the park and cheaper too. In fact Lindo is about 50% more expensive, but probably worth it.
Jan had the Pablano Chile Relleno along with a beef taco, and I had the Pork Carnitas, one of my favorite dishes.
My Carnitas was good, better than what I had in Apache Junction, but not as good as the Carnitas a la Coca-Cola from Lindo Michoacan the other night.
Leaving Macayo’s we heading down to the bottom of Las Vegas Blvd, aka “The Strip”. I wanted to check out the Camping World there for those Bulldog cabinet latches that I’m looking for, but we got there a few minutes after they had closed at 6pm. The main reason we were late was that I didn’t realize how far down “The Strip” the Camping World was.
But in fact it was so far away that “The Strip” was now a two lane road pretty much out in the desert. So since we didn’t make it to the Camping World in time, we used it as an excuse to drive all the way back up “The Strip”, taking in the sights and doing some people-watching. Always fun in a place like Las Vegas. In fact, we sometimes make a game out of it.
It’s called “Find the Hooker”.
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Thought for the Day:
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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