Monthly Archives: July 2015
ThunderBoomers . . .
The weather really turned nice today, or at least in the comparison to the previous day’s of high 90’s. At 6am this morning a big line of thunderboomers moved through and combined with the pouring rain, shook the coach for about an hour.
Because of all this, it barely made it into the 80’s today with pretty much the same tomorrow. And tomorrow night supposed to be in the 60’s. Very Nice.
I did get a few things done on my chore list today, but pretty much had to stick with inside stuff due to all the rain. I’m still trying to get my transfer switch replaced, not I’m not sure if I have time to have it shipped here, or at our next stop.
After a few days of 3 bars of 3G, my Verizon service here now officially sucks. For some reason my 3G just goes away and I’m stuck with a couple of bars of 1X, just pitiful. But sometimes late at night all of a sudden the 3G just pops back in. It’s going to be a real pain in the rear if this continues our entire time here.
My niece Stahlie has added a lot more content to her website Adventurous History. Check it out when you get a chance. She’s really doing a good job.
For dinner Jan fixed up one the Crusty’s Pizza Baked Spaghetti meals we vacuum-sealed and froze before we left Cottonwood, AZ and the Verde Valley Thousand Trails. Done with some garlic bread, it’s a really good meal.
Tomorrow we’re going to drive into the Memphis suburbs on this side of town to see a movie, probably Jurassic World, and then have dinner at Jim & Nick’s BBQ once again. Then on the way home we’ll make a Wal-Mart stop for a few things.
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Thought for the Day:
“It’s not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.” – Marilyn Monroe
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We Took A Chance . . .
I realized this morning that I didn’t have the pronoun correct in yesterday’s blog title. Kitty, Landon’s Black Lab, is a girl, not a boy. So it should be “A Dog and Her Boy”, not “A Dog and His Boy”.
About 4pm Jan and I headed out to see some of the area and see if we could find a place to eat. Our first destination was Walnut, MS about 12 miles away, where two places come up on Yelp, a pizza place and a diner called Camo, both with good ratings.
But getting there, we decided we didn’t really want pizza tonight, and as it turned out, Camo was only open from 5am to 1pm, or 2pm on Saturdays. So we decided to go ahead and drive into Corinth, MS, about 25 miles east.
Turns out that Corinth has pretty much everything as far as restaurants go, from a Ruby Tuesday, to a Cracker Barrel, and a Ryan’s. But as we drove around for a while, we came across Mi Toro, a Mexican Restaurant with an almost full parking lot. Now we’ve been burned before with some really bad Mexican food, but this place looked nice, and as busy as it was, we decided to take a chance.
With us and new Mexican places, it’s a three step process.
1. First try a tortilla chip by itself.
2. Next try a chip in the salsa.
3. Then taste the ice tea.
And happily for us, Mi Toro passed all three taste tests with flying colors. And I don’t think we’ve ever been to a place that passed all three of these tests that didn’t have good food as well. And today was no exception.
Jan ordered the #3 Combo, with a Beef Enchilada, a Beef Taco, and a Chile Relleno.
I got one of my favorites, Carnitas, which are chunks of slow-cooked pork, that are grilled again right before they’re served.
Both of us agreed that we’ll try to eat here again before we leave the area.
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Thought for the Day:
“The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.” – Brendan Behan
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