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 meet 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 neighbors tree. It was a Western Tanager. Never seen them before.

 Got the RV washed and waxed before we left. The 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 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 🍻🍻

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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.

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Katie checking on the BGE.

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Way behind

 Wow I'm way behind on my blogging. We've been so busy, I know it's a bad excuse. The weather has been really nice. It was 82 yesterday. 

We cooked a turkey with all the fixins' for Thanksgiving. It was only a 9 pounder. 

I love cooking on Thanksgiving.

I've been golfing 2 days a week. On Tuesdays we go to Loud Mouth Bingo where Peggy has won a couple of times and I'm keeping my losing streak going. Saturday is Queen of Hearts at the VFW in Wellton. We won the 50/50 last week for $150.

Out to dinner on Wednesday. 4 Loko's  is a good place to go with a big gang.

Sunday happy hours with Gord, Barney and Maureen. Gord and Maureen went back home to B.C. already, they only stayed for 28 days. We may see them in February.

Katie our guard dog is taking a nap and the place is getting overrun with the wild life. See loves her pillow chair.

Here she is with a feather stuck on her nose! 

She's always sniffing around.

Getting more things fixed on the RV. We got new awning covers on the slide outs and a new exhaust pipe on the generator. I think we have all our stuff fixed now.

Look at that BLUE sky we get here.

We got all our Christmas decorations out.

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We installed a camera in the RV and this picture was the first time we checked to see what Katie does when we are gone. I am not too sure why she's on the Table.

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We made it

 We made it to our winter home, but it was hard. On our way, a huge rain storm was coming up Arizona 95 right at us. We stopped in Quartzsite for an hour to wait it out, but that didn't work. We started to head south, but all the washes were running hard. We drove thru 3 of them. The first one was 6 inches deep the next 2 were a lot bigger, maybe a foot deep with lots of debris flowing in it. We saw a pallet and a huge, free limb flowing by. Those 3 washes are small ones. The big ones are a few miles south that we had yet to go through. So we pulled into BLM land and stayed the night. We are NOT dry campers! We love a full hook up. The batteries started to go low after about 6 hours. I guess you shouldn't watch TV when you dry camp. So I started the generator to charge them up and I noticed the exhaust pipe was GONE on the generator! Not sure when we lost that, but it was gone. It still ran OK.

  

We pulled over right after that wash.

This was one of the small ones. There are probably ten or twelve more to make it home from here and are a lot bigger.

In the BLM land (Bureau of Land Management).

On this summer's trip we did 5130 miles, $7887 in parks and $2156 in fuel cost. We got about 9.4 MPG. That's better than the big truck we had. About the only thing that we had go wrong was the battery in the car. The old one made it 99,991 miles on it.

But we made it back and now it's time to get stuff done.

Our water pump quit working right after we got back. So that was a huge job to fix it. We had a spare pump. But you have to take the water system all apart to get to the pump. It took Peggy and me 7 hours to get the job done. We moved the pump down so next time I can change it in ten minutes!

It was a 3 band aid job.

 Then we got some new steps to get in the RV. Cheap Amazon steps from China. We had to reinforce the bottom step as it was bending. I took it to the local weld shop and got it reinforced. It only cost $50 to fix it. But now they work great. I posted a bad review on Amazon, but they removed it after one day. So, that's not good for other buyers.

Then . . . This is huge! We got some Bird deterrents installed in the RV port. This should keep all the birds out of it and stop all the bird poop!

We already made a trip to Mexico to stock up on drugs and stuff and had lunch and a couple of Dos Equis.

We went to the VFW for Queen of Hearts drawing, but didn't win anything. But we had a good time with Barney and Dave. (and a photo bomber)

Our favorite place has changed names to "4 LOKO's Sonoran Grill" and the food is great.

They remodeled a little bit and added 5 more tap beers to the list.

For $55 you can get this huge platter of food. It's got ribs, Rib eye steak, Sausage, Chicken and all the fixings. They still have some of the old A&R stuff on the menu. It's our new favorite place again.

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A fire hose flag in the High Tanks Taproom in Welton, AZ. Pretty cool. and they have great beer.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.