We Made It Home

  We made it to our winter home! But not without a little issue. At our last stop at a Love's RV site in Ely, AZ our big slide would not come in! It was blowing fuses every time you hit the button. I think I went through 10 fuses. We had to call an RV mobile repair guy to come and rescue us. So $300 later we were good, we called Hernandez mobile RV repair. George was one of the best RV guys I have ever seen. He tested the motor first then tested the controller and we fingered out it was a bad wire in some places. We looked in the first compartment and found it right away. 

There was a wire cut by this metal strap that holds up the black water tank. This guy was good! Had it fixed in less than a half hour.

  

Thanks George, of Hernandez Mobile Repair!

Our site at Love's RV park. Nice big site with full hook up.

The dog park was right behind us at Love's. We had dinner at Wendy's right at Love's. We will stay at any Love's it was a good stop for the night.

Barnie came over and it was too hot to sit outside. Katie was a little upset Barnie was sitting in her stop, So she just jumped up in his lap anyway.

One of our first projects was to assemble our new Big Green Egg tables I got from Amazon. It took us about 3 hours and only had to redo a couple of things. The instructions were a little hard to see. No written instructions just pictures and of course it came from China.

                                                Fully assembled!

Getting the large egg in the table was a little harder than it used to be I could pick it up all put together. But now I had to take it apart to lift it out of the old table. Most be getting old.

But when we got it done it was pretty nice and works great with our two eggs. I also moved up the power plug on the RV port to make it way nicer.

Peggy got our first win at Loudmouth Bingo!

Big pile of ones! But they all spend!

We got the band back together for dinner at 4 Loco's. The food was really good at their new location. A lot bigger place.

 

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Our site in Tombstone RV Park at night with the awning lights on.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

Alpine and Tombstone

 We left Show Low and went to Alpine, AZ. We stayed at Coronado RV Park. It was a really nice park in a Ponderosa Pine forest at 8050 feet in the White Mountains.

We had a nice big back in site. It had a huge dog park that Katie loved and a nice walking trail. Check out those huge trees behind us. The weather was a little cooler, in the 70's and yes it rained almost every day. We've never seen so much rain.

Alpine is a really small town, only 146 people live there but it has 3 bars. We only stayed a week.

We hooked up with Terry and Charity! They are dry camping in the White Mountains just 6 or 7 miles from Alpine. We cooked some brats on the grill. It was a really nice day. We saw a couple of deer playing around not too far away. Terry has 3 Basset Hounds and 1 German Shepherd.  It took Katie a little while to get ok with them. She got a lot of lap time in.

It wasn't too bad of a drive, but it was as far as the truck has ever been off road. 

But now we've moved to one of our favorite places! Tombstone RV Park. We really like Tombstone. It's still a small tourist trap. But we like it. We have a great site with lots of room. The weather is a little warmer here. We are still pretty high at 4300 feet. 

Of course the first place we had to go to was Big Nose Kate's Saloon to get THE best Reuben sandwiches on earth.

Next stop was The Four Deuces Saloon. This is a small place but nice people hang out here.

Tombstone has a great brewery. Lisa was our tap master.

Katie has a girlfriend here in the park. Lucy and Katie play around in the dog park.

We went to Bisbee, AZ. Stopped at the Bisbee brewery. It's an old mining town. It was a huge open pit mine and a hard rock underground mine. The Queen Mine. You can take a train tour of the Queen Mine. We've done it before and it was pretty cool.

The whole town is built in the mountains around the mine. All the streets are really hilly.

You take these steps to get to the next street above. Local artists just hang their art on the walls of the buildings.

Peggy hanging with the locals in Bisbee. Rex was a pretty cool guy. He told us a lot of local history. He was born and raised right in Bisbee.

We left one of our stickers on the tapper in the famous bar, St. Elmo's. Local historian, Rex told us it's the longest continuous running bar in the nation. It even stayed open during prohibition.

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Katie napping out on the top step of the RV. 

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

 




  

  

Tons of Rain

 Still in Show Low. We are going to be here until the end of the month.

The weather is still wild, nice in the morning and rain in the afternoon.

Barney was here for a week and we had a ton of fun. We took him to all our favorite places and a couple of new ones.

Barney is always ready to try new things. Here we are at 4 Silo's brewery, on our way to MJ's Hideaway to meet some of our Moose friends.

Here we are at MJ's at the outside bar with our Moose friends. The food is pretty good here. Peggy and Barney had the fish dinner and I wanted to try the Pizza and it was as good as everyone has said.

We did some cultural things too. We went to the Show Low Museum. It was full of old stuff and a nice HO train setup.

It was so huge it took up the whole room. We got a guided tour from the veteran who helped build it. He pointed out a lot of little details that we could have missed.

We did a road trip to the 260 Brewery and Distillery. The beer was good and Barney got some Orange Cream Dream Moonshine.

We visited some old friends, Lieutenant Colonel John and Karen we met them the first time we were here. They built a beautiful house out in the woods. They cooked us a killer dinner. Good to see them.

View from John and Karen's huge deck and yes, that's rain in the background.

Their house has a huge open floor plan. All built with very high quality.

 

The winning continues, Barney won the $5 pot at the Moose 

I won two little pots and Peggy got one too. We won 5 out of 12 pots. They might not let us in next week.

The Moose got googly eyed somehow.

We had to go to one of the few Trump stores in the country and it's right here in Show Low. They had tons of Trump stuff.

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Peggy found this man hole cover from the East Jordan Iron Works in Michigan. Back in the day we would go boating and camping in East Jordan City campground. They had boat docks in the park.

Live Happy and Always Go Big. 

Show Low

 We have moved to Show Low, AZ. We're at K-Bar RV Park. It's one of those old parks with your site number on a tree. The power and water are all good. They have lots of activities at the club house. We went to the 4th of July party. The park supplied the Hot Dogs and Burgers, everyone brought a dish to pass. The park is really quiet at night.

  Our site. The trees are a little close, so my awning will not go out all the way. But that's OK. We have a lot of shade from the trees.

The weather has been a little wild! It rains almost every day. The sun will be out most of the day and then it will just start pouring. Of course all the locals say we need the rain. We are at 6450 feet above sea level. That keeps it nice and cool here. High 70's and 80's. In Yuma it's been in the high 110's.

4th of July outfit.

The White Mountain Moose has Loudmouth Bingo. A couple of girls from Yuma have just started to run the game every other Monday. The pots are pretty low. We both won one, $16 each. The $5 pot was $80. That would be cool to win.

We found a pretty good Brewery out in the middle of nowhere.

The building is beautiful. We stop there on our way to MJ's Hideout. They have a good fish fry on Fridays.

  

We can't find any Greek restaurants around here, So I guess I have to make my own. I made the taziki sauce and cooked Greek Chicken. They turned out pretty good. I am going to make it again this week! 

We eat like Kings! Here we have Pork skewers. 

We made Pretzels in the air fryer and Peggy whipped up some Beer cheese for dipping. Killer good! OK that's enough about food.

Funny thing. We were out to dinner at the local Burger place and this kid was dressed like George Washington. How cute 🥰 

Heidi made new Korn hole boards and used a lot of the stickers we've collected, mostly from Breweries we've been to in our travels.

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We lost a good friend a couple of weeks ago. Gordy. We will miss him during our happy hours.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.