Monthly Archives: April 2017
Worth The Trip . . .
Since we were heading out about noon, I was up about 10am, just in time to shut down most of the rig’s electronics
The knock at the door was a power company guy here to replace our electric meter. When I ask whether it was bad in our favor. He said neither, but it was dying, so it have phoned (emailed) home so they could come and replace it.
I had already shut down the computer, the TV, and the Sat Receiver, so it only took him about 30 seconds for the changeout.
We headed out for Gila Bend about noon, with a quick stop for gas and breakfast sandwiches at Jack’s before we got out on US 60 and headed west and then south.
The 100 mile trip took us about two hours so we were pulling into the parking lot of Sofia’s Mexican Restaurant at 2pm.
We’ve been eating here at Sofia’s since our very first year, 2008, when we passed through on our way to Yuma and San Diego after leaving Nick’s Gypsy Rally in Casa Grande.
Jan got her usual Shrimp Burrito, the same thing she always has, and the reason we come here. But this time she also added an a la carte Chile Relleno.
I had the 3 Enchilada Combo, Cheese, Chicken, and Beef, and an a la carte Carne Asada Taco.
Great food, great service, and big enough portions that we had plenty to take home. The perfect trio.
After a great meal, we headed over to Holt’s Shell and RV Park, a place we’ve stayed many times passing through. Jan was looking for a T-shirt she thought had bought here in the past, but no luck.
But we did find a good source of dinosaurs, snakes, and Gila Monsters.
The dinosaurs go for about $3000 a piece, and the workmanship is amazing. Tackwelded togethter from sheet metal, the skin is textured and even shows the musculature of the body.
By now it was about 3:30 so we headed over to the other reason we came to Gila Bend, the local Elk’s Lodge so I could renew my membership. And then a few minutes later we were heading home, finally pulling in about 5:30.
Today a friend ask us where Jan got the Padded Bowl Holders that we talked about in the blog recently,
and wanted to know where we got them.
Jan bought them at the recent Escapade from Mac The Fire Guy’s wife, and you can contact him at [email protected] if you would like to purchase them.
Check’em out.
Thought for the Day:
“The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.” ― Robert Bloch
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Road Trip!
I spent the morning and early afternoon answering a bunch of questions and finishing up a website proposal for a new client so I could email it off.
Then about 2pm we headed out to take back my non-working Moen Cartridge Puller to Home Depot and get a new one at Lowe’s. But since it was in the area, we did another run at Woochi, nee #1 Eastern Buffet, over on Signal Butte. And it was just as good as last time. Which actually was just this past Saturday..
Although I had to backtrack, I first went to Lowe’s to pick up the new puller, the one that had worked last time.
Then it was on to Home Deport to take back the one that didn’t work.
I did it in this order so I could show Home Depot that I had really bought another one first so they wouldn’t just think that I had used it to pull the cartridge and then brought it back.
Getting home about 5pm, I decided it was kind of late to get back on the shower with the new puller, so I took a nap.
Funny how that worked out.
I don’t know where it came from, about about 8:45 this evening the wind really picked up, enough to really rock the coach and flap the window awnings. Then right before the rain hit, the satellite went out. But not from the rain, but from the wind blowing over the satellite stand.
But it was raining so hard for a while I waited out the storm before I went outside to set it up again. I just left it on the ground for now, and in a bit we had DirecTV again.
A little after 4pm I made a phone call that set up our road trip tomorrow. Jan had been craving a Shrimp Burrito from Sofia’s Mexican Restaurant down in Gila Bend, and I wanted to use the trip to renew my membership at the Gila Bend Elk’s Lodge.
But I wanted to be sure that someone would be there in the afternoon to renew me.
So we’re go to go.
Road Trip!
Thought for the Day:
I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one.” ― Steven Wright
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