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.

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.

 
 

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.

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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. 
  

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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 🍻🍻

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

Live Happy and Always Go Big.