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Today was a stay-at-home, catch-up on some repairs kind of  day. And part of it was just goofing off. Very nice.

One thing I did was to replace the wire on the back of a picture that a friend painted of one of my family’s shrimp boats, one of seven we had at one time back in the early 60’s.

Then I replaced the rig door’s gas spring and mounting bracket.

A while back the bracket broke off and took the gas spring mounting end with it. I was able to quickly get at new spring, but it took a while to track down a new bracket. American Coach couldn’t help because in their parts list, the bracket was part of the door and they didn’t stock parks for it.

But while I was looking for something else on Amazon, I stumbled across a replacement bracket. And of course, as usual, I ordered two.

Again on the Amazon front, I had an order that was supposed to be delivered by the Post Office today, but a little after noon I received a text message saying that the package could not be delivered due a faulty address.

Now I had had two packages delivered here on Friday and Saturday so I knew Amazon had the correct address. So I assumed the PO had screwed up somehow. But this time it turned out to be Amazon’s fault.

After talking to both Amazon and the PO, I found out that the address on the package was incomplete. Instead of

Greg White
c/o Santa Fe RV Park
1800 N. Ironwood Dr.
Apache Junction, AZ  85120-1912

All it had was

c/o Santa Fe RV Park
1800 N. Ironwood Dr.
Apache Junction, AZ  85120-1912

Apparently the PO couldn’t just go ahead and just deliver it to the RV park and let us sort it out. So I’ve got to call tomorrow and see if I can pick it up at the PO.

David, a blog reader, had this question about our use of Passport America as we travel around the country. Here’s what he said.

You seem to use PA frequently when you guys are moving around. 
I have found that many parks place “harsh” limits on the usage of PA.  along with some pretty run down parks.  What’s you take on this.

Here was my reply.

David,

We use PA all the time, and have since we started RV’ing in 2007.

If we’re going to an area/park that we haven’t used before, I check the park out on RVParkReviews.com. This lets me weed out any questionable parks.

It’s worked well so far.

All the parks have different PA rules. Some parks only let you stay a day or two, or three. Some a week, or some will let you stay an unlimited time.

This park, Santa Fe RV Park, a very nice park, lets you stay 14 days, saving us $280 for the two weeks.

PA is $45/year.

So three nights at $15 instead of $30 a night pays for a year’s membership in PA.

Normally this only takes us a couple of weeks each year.

Hope this helps.

We consider PA one of our best values, and it saves us hundreds of dollars or more every year.

Thought for the Day:

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We were out of our site at Voyager RV Resort and on the road about 8:45 this morning, with our first stop at the Valero on Kolb about 3 miles away.

We had scouted this station out yesterday, and luckily no one was using the outside diesel pump where I wanted to fill up.

I parked at an angle to make it easier to pull out straight head when we were done. Although the clerk said there was no cut-off amount, he was wrong. The pump stopped at $100, so it took me 3 tries to get filled up, a total of 122 gallons. This took us 1021 miles for a little over 8.3 mpg. Not Bad.

And of course leaving us 28 gallons, or a little over 200 miles left as a buffer.

After hitching up on the side of the parking lot, we were back on the road about 9:30 with our next stop the Bowlin’s Picacho Peak Plaza and Gift Shop about 50 miles up I-10.

Now Jan is a connoisseur of gift shops and this one is one of her favorites, a must-stop whenever we pass this way. She normally finds something in the jewelry section that catches her eye,  but this time was an aberration, in that we left without her finding anything.

A first.

Back on the road, we made good time until we were about 30 miles from Phoenix when traffic ground to a halt. Finally starting up again it was stop and go for the next 10 miles, taking us about 45 minutes.

Finally we passed a semi-trailer wreck on the other side of the freeway, not even blocking the traffic on our side. But along the way we did see 3 rear-ending wrecks on our side caused by the stop and go traffic.

So it was just 10 miles of rubbernecking on our side for no good reason.

We unhitched the toad on a pullout about a mile from the Santa Fe RV Park where we’ll be staying for the next two weeks under Passport America. When we got to the park and checked in, I already had two Amazon packages waiting for me. Nice.

After the problems with the lady trying to park me last week when we got to Voyager, I was not happy to see the same thing happening here. But I solved the problem this time.

I ignored the gentleman and his confusing handsignals, and just backed in and parked myself.

Here we are happily ensconced in Site 99. Not bad for just backing in with one try and no jogging back and forth.

Not sure what’s on the schedule for tomorrow. Maybe nothing, and that would be nice after the busy last week.

Thought for the Day:

“I’m not stubborn. My way is just better.â€

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