Cool Weather

 A little cool and windy this weekend. The wind is blowing 25 with gusts of 40, but it's still sunny. It's a job to keep our mat from blowing away. Other than that we're having a great time in Williams.

We had Prime Rib at the Long Horn Saloon. It was huge. I got the 16oz with a huge baked potato and corn on the cob. This is our favorite bar. They have the Best bartender, Dana. She knows everybody's name and what they drink. 

Inside the Long Horn, having a drink with one of the locals, Jim. Almost every time we stop in here, someone has bought us a drink. That's why we love this Bar.

This is one of the trains you can take into the Grand Canyon. It's right next to the RV park. 

On Saturday we went to the local Cowpuncher Rodeo. It was not the pro Rodeo, but local ranchers. It was fun to watch. They had some events that you don't see on the pro circuit. One of the funny things was the wild cow milking race. It involved three cowboys, one would rope the cow, one would hold the cow while one cowboy would milk the cow into a cup and run to the judge. Pretty funny. 

They also had Wild Bronc riding. Their version had 3 cowboys who had to rope and saddle a wild bronc and ride it around a barrel to win. It was pretty hard to do.

Right next to the RV park there's a field of Prairie dogs. But they're not a good thing to mess with. They can carry Bubonic plague. So they are not that cute.

We saw Eric the Nomadic Fanatic YouTuber in town. We watch him on YouTube. He travels in this old school bus with his girlfriend and 5 cats and likes to dry camp.   

Peggy and I did a little RO water maintenance. We changed the filters. Good water is one of the most important things to keep on top of.

BGE Picture of the Blog.

An old picture of Peggy and I back in the Hobie racing days. We must have won that weekend.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

 

   

 

2nd Stop

 We've made it to our second stop. We are at the Grand Canyon Railway RV Park. We have a nice backin site. The good thing is, it's not next to the railroad tracks! The weather has been good, in the low 80's. This park is at 7000 feet. We had dinner the first night at the Grand Canyon Brewery across the street from the park.

Our site. It was a short drive from Clarkdale only 165 miles. Peggy let me drive all the way.

The bar at the brewery.
 

We stopped at Love's truck repair and got our leaky front hub fixed. It took 2 hours but we got it done! They had to replace the seal and the brake shoes. So we got 1/4 of a brake job too. Always something to fix on the RV. Under a Thousand! Only $438.

There's a car show this weekend in Williams, AZ. The park is full of show cars.

This was a pretty cool one with a hot rod on the back.

The last park was right next to some Tuzigoot National Monument Indian ruins. 

The Indians lived here in the 14th century, so they've been gone a long time:-).

Our site at Rain Spirit RV Park. It was one of the nicest sites we've had in a long time. Very nice small park. The park is at 2300 feet.

Whipped up a batch of BBQ Ribs on the Big Green Egg. Ribs are one of the hardest things for me to cook. But they turned out pretty good. I spritz them with DR Pepper at 265 degrees for 3 hours.

Peggy and Katie ran into this coyote on a walk just outside the park. That's a little scary.

We went to the Beer Festival in Clarkdale. Had beer from about 8 different Breweries. One had a cream ale that is what I like. The Brewery in Clarkdale sponsored it. The Smelter Town Brewery. Their beer was pretty good too. 

And you always have to take a trip to Jerome up in the mountains above Clarkdale. 
  

BGE Picture of the Blog.

Peggy got this picture of a pretty scarlet tanager in the park. The desert has some really beautiful things in it.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

 

On The Road Again!

 We are on the road again. But we had to change our trip already. The first park in Wickenburg had a wildfire less then a mile away. So we called the next park, Rain Spirit in Clarkdale, AZ and got in. We really like this park.

 This was the first time we pulled the truck. I think I didn't have the battery turned off. Had to jump it to start. I will make a change to make sure it's off next time. But it pulled really nice.

 We went to dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant "Ay, Chihuahua". The food and beer are great. The weather here is nice and cool. Only in the 80's. I am sitting outside writing this blog. I know I'm way behind on the Blog.

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Then we went to a tap room "Copper Jackalope". We love sitting at the bar and meeting people. We met Devon and Jan. They are thinking of going full time RVing. Best of luck to them. Hope we run into them on the road sometime.

 We tried a new beer. Pabst Pickle Beer. It was pretty good. One was enough.

Before we left, I got to draw for the Queen of hearts at the VFW. I picked card 32, but it was the Ace of Spades. The pot was $8550.00. Better luck next time.

 Always something to fix in an RV! This time it was the Microwave. It was blowing a fuse when you opened the door. Peggy did a little Google search and it said to replace the door switches. I ordered them from Amazon and they worked great. Problem FIXED! It was fun taking it apart. 

 We saw these beautiful birds in our neighbor's tree. It was a Western Tanager. Never seen them before.

 Got the RV washed and waxed before we left. Pedro's crew did a great job.

 Got a new fire pit controller and I love it. It's a Fireboard 2 Drive. I smashed the Ultra Q and sent it back to them in the Fireboard box. Don't ever buy a BBQ Guru product again!

 Our site in Yuma at night!

 We are able to see a Space X launch almost once every week.

We've been kicking butt at Loudmouth Bingo! Peggy has won 3 times and I have won 4 times. What a ton of fun!

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 Sandy our Loudmouth drinkmonger. She won $92. She got googly eyed!

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

 
  

Hot Weather

 It has been crazy Hot here, It got to 110 one day. It's about 20 to 30 degrees above normal. One day we didn't even golf it was too hot. 

Bill got to draw for the Queen of Hearts at the VFW. But he got the 7 of Hearts instead.

We got the tow stuff on the truck. We are ready to go. But not until May 13th. 

I put a battery monitor on the battery. The other stuff is a diode to charge the battery from the motorhome and a remote battery shut off.

The battery monitor goes to my phone to see all the information on the battery. I love gadgets! The truck is ready to tow.

We installed a couple of new cameras to monitor the lot when we are gone. These are the best I have ever had. Eufy S4 has 3 cameras in it. It will track you and can zoom in too. It has a solar panel to charge it. So you can mount it anywhere you like.

I put the other one on the shed. You can see the solar panel on the roof. This one is an Eufy S340. It was cheaper than the S4. But it works pretty well.

We've been having some fun with google eyes!

We were over to Mike and Becky's and we got them!

At the golf course!

I won at Loudmouth Bingo at the Moose! $238 Big ones!

We did have some St. Patrick's Day Fun!

Gord cooked a great St. Patrick's Day dinner. Corned beef and cabbage. They went back home already.

Peggy and Mike going to the bathroom 🍻🍻

BGE Picture of the Blog.

Katie, with a treat from the UPS guy. She loves him.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

Great Weather

 The weather is THE best we have had here in all the years we have been here. Not a lot going on just golfing and going out with our friends. Oh, we did get a (new to us) truck. The car had 103,000 miles on it and it was a good time to get a new truck. And we found a good deal on the truck we were looking for. It was at the first dealer we went to.

It's a Chevy Colorado Z71 with 40,000 miles on it. The only thing wrong with it is, it's BLACK, but, it does match the motorhome.

I have ordered lots of accessories for the truck. It was kind of hard to get into so we got running boards, a bed liner and a tonneau cover, but that hasn't showed up yet.

Peggy helped me install the running boards. It took us about an hour to install and they work great. Still need to get the towing stuff on it yet.

 We are in the middle of changing banks. The credit union in Saginaw was not working well anymore, so we changed to a bank here in Yuma. If you ever need to change banks, don't do IT! It's been a huge pain in the butt.  

Out to dinner with Bill and Marsha at High Tanks Taproom in Welton. The beer and food are pretty darn good.

There's always something to fix on the RV. Our RO water needed to change the membrane in it, but the new membrane didn't fit in the old system. So I had to get a whole new system. The old one was 6 years old.  

A huge gang at 4LOKO's for killer tacos and burgers and cold beer.

BGE Picture of the Blog.

Katie checking on the BGE.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.