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Another nice quiet morning. Jan read and I worked on some web stuff before finishing up some rig repairs.

Recently I’ve seen some discussions online about Passport America, both pro and con. Personally I can’t recommend it more.

We’ve been Passport America users since we first started RV’ing and it’s saved us $1000’s over the last nine years. In fact it’s already saved us $280 with our two week stay at Santa Fe RV Park in Apache Junction a few weeks ago, and next month it will save us over $315 for a two week stay at a very nice park north of Rapid City, SD.

Yes, some parks only allow 1 to 3 days, sometimes not on weekends, or during peak times. For example, the park in Rapid City doesn’t take PA the week before Sturgis and the week after. Otherwise it’s unlimited.

We’ve even used PA as our out week at Thousand Trail and Encore parks. Back in 2013 we spent a month at the Countryside RV Park in Apache Junction. We stayed for two weeks at $3 a night under our TT membership, one week under PA, and then another week under TT.

The funny thing  was we found that different memberships are allotted different spaces, so when we switched over to PA for a week, we had to move the RV one space to the left, and then back one space to the right when the week was up.

The other complaint is that some of the parks are not the best. For that I use RVParkReviews.com to check them out, as well as Google Maps Satellite View and Street View.

I don’t have any parks scheduled after Rapid City for our trip back to Houston, but I’m sure I’ll find a bunch more PA parks along the way.

A little after 3pm Jan and I headed out, first for a scenic trip down to Boulder City and Lake Mead to drive around a bit through Old Boulder City and check out the lake.

Coming back into Henderson, we detoured down I-215W to have dinner at Claim Jumper’s, another of our favorite steak places. Claim Jumper is part of Tilman Fertitta’s Landry’s Restaurants chain. Elsewhere in the country, his Saltgrass Steakhouse is similar in menu.

We both started out with their upgrade salads, with Jan getting the California Citrus Salad, with Mandarin oranges, pecans, apples, cranberries, avocado, resins, green onions, and Bleu Cheese crumbles.

I got my favorite Wedge Salad with a wedge of lettuce, bacon, tomatoes, red onions, a Bleu Cheese Vinaigrette and Bleu Cheese crumbles.

Then it was on to our steaks, Jan’s New York Sirloin,

and my usual Ribeye.

Both really, really good steaks.

As if we weren’t full enough, we split an order of their Berry Butter Cake.

Made with a mini-Bundt cake, butter cream frosting, fresh strawberries, fresh raspberries, and powdered sugar, and served warm with ice cream, it was really delicious.

We’ve never been disappointed by a meal at Claim Jumper’s.

I’ve been a member of Good Sam’s Platinum Roadside Assistance for years, and one of the perks of the Platinum membership is being able to call an RV Tech if you have a question. But all the time I had the membership I’ve never called, so I didn’t know the phone number.

So I went to the Good Sam website and found this brochure for the Platinum Service.

http://images.goodsam.com/goodsamroadside.com/pdf/2017/Platinum%20MBB%20web.pdf

And on the second page it gives you this phone number.

But when you call that number, you get a sex talk line, asking if you girls want to talk with hot guys.

Not the help I was looking for.

Some people claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

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Again, thanks for the kind comments about my Paul Revere screed. I’ve always enjoyed history, especially the misconceptions and mythical parts.

In fact one semester in college I took 3 history courses all at the same time as electives.

One reader asked if there were all these other riders, how come Paul Revere got all the press? I guess you might say he had a better press agent. Or at least had Henry Wadsworth Longfellow write a poem about him.

So why did Longfellow write about Paul Revere when there were other riders, and Revere didn’t even make it to Concord? Well, one reason stated was that Paul Revere was the best known of the bunch. A well-known and prosperous Boston silversmith, he was well-connected with the Revolutionary leadership, and a prominent member of the Sons of Liberty.

But there are some whispers that Longfellow found the name Revere easier to rhyme than Dawes, Prescott, or Bissell. Or especially Ludington.

And not surprisingly Longfellow took a lot of liberties (artistic license?) with the storyline in the poem.

For example, Revere did not observe the two lanterns in the old North Church tower, saying the British troops were coming by sea. In fact he was the one who ordered the lanterns placed in the tower in the tower in the first place.

Longfellow’s poem was not written until 1860, but ever then some people were upset that Paul Revere got all the acclaim. Helen F. Moore even penned a parody poem on the subject.

‘Tis all very well for the children to hear

Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere;

But why should my name be quite forgot,

Who rode as boldly and well, God wot?

Why should I ask? The reason is clear—

My name was Dawes and his Revere

But note that she didn’t try to rhyme anything with Dawes either.

I did get my exhaust pipe strap hanger installed this afternoon and it works fine.

So that’s fixed now.

About 4pm Jan and I headed back down to the Henderson area to once again have dinner at Golden Flower Chinese Restaurant, a place that our friend Nick Russell turned us onto. And this time we had a dinner companion.

Boots Gibson, a long-time blog reader lives in Las Vegas and wanted to get together. So Golden Flower was the perfect place.

Turns out that Boots and Jan have a lot in common, both having worked in the medical field for many years, so they hit it off pretty quick.

We had our usual great meal and spent over two hours there. I think our waitress was wondering if we were going to start all over and order again.

Later, about 7:30 Jan and I headed over to the Vegas Strip to do our drive from the top to the bottom. We both enjoy watching some of the amazing outfits people actually wear out in public as they parade along the street.

Getting down to the bottom of the Strip at the airport, we head back over to Flamingo Rd. to have a piece of pie at Blueberry Hill Restaurant, known for their homemade pies. And it certainly shows.

And tastes.

Thought for the Day:

“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-front for the urge to rule it.” – H. L. Mencken

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