Breaking Bad in Albuquerque

 We've moved to American RV Park in Albuquerque, NM. We were here a few years ago. We're in the older part of the park. It's not as nice as it used to be. You have to stand on your head to hook up the water, and it's not easy for us old people. Other than that it's not too bad. But next time we come to ABQ we're going to stay at a different park.

The water hook up!

Peggy found this East Jordan Ironworks manhole cover. It's amazing how many times we see them all over the country.

The weather has been a little cool, down to 48 at night, low 70's during the day. Good sleeping weather. 

We went to Old Town Albuquerque for the day and had a blast. It's a nice tourist trap with a lot of different kinds of shops. The Puzzle shop was really nice. Tons of wooden puzzles. We found a nice tasting room, Downshift Brewery. The beer was good and had a nice balcony to sit on and people watch at the park across the street.

One of the best places we discovered was the Breaking Bad Store! If you were a fan of the series, this is the place to come. They have a ton of really cool stuff and of course we made a purchase.

It also had a little museum in it. That was cool too. (Coming your way Patty)

Anyone for Chicken. Peggy is here to serve you. Working for Gus.

They had a lot of the props they used in the show.

The cousins from the show. Really bad guys.

We may have to go back before we leave. The store was really cool.

Finally "Beer Yoga". We've been looking for this for years. And you get 10% off drinks!

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I had to get a Los Pollos Hermanos Tee shirt and mug.

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Good Job

 So we stopped at National Indoor RV Center in Las Vegas and they replaced the whole leveler pump. Now it can auto level OK. Our appointment was for 9:00 am. They got us in at 11:00 am and had it done about 2:30. They also got us a new TV control, it was on the list when we bought the RV. I still think they did a good job.

Here we are right next to the service door.

The next stop was in Mesquite, NV at Sun Resorts RV park. The park is right next to a Smith's grocery, you can walk over to shop. We stayed a week. This is where Craig and Charlie live with their 3 Bostons, Baby, Bonnie and Vinny. So we went to their house every day. Katie had a blast! We brought the Mini-Max and cooked some steaks, some ribs and made a Pizza. We went out to eat at the local Japanese steak house. But the funny thing was, the cook was Mexican. He still did a really good job on our dinner.

Here we are at the Manning house sitting outside before it got hot later in the week. After it got to 100 we stayed indoors and played Spinner Dominoes. It's a fun game to play when it's too hot to sit outside. 

Craig and Charlie and the dogs. Peggy didn't get in the picture in time.

Next stop is in Page, AZ at Lake Powell RV Park. It's good for a couple of days. But on the way we saw a ton of stunning scenery.

    

Katie, sitting watching the scenery go by.

Peggy got some great pictures. I was kinda busy driving the new RV.

This is were the Grand Canyon starts. Driving over the Colorado river below Lake Powell Dam. Lake Powell is at record lows. It's 174 feet below full level.

You can see the old water line on this rock.

We've been having fun with this new app we got, ISS Detector. It tells when and what path the International Space Station and the Chinese Space Station will travel. We probably look like we're nuts standing outside pointing up in the sky. 

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Katie taking a break from playing.

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2022 Journey Start

 We've started our 2022 Journey! The first stop is in Vista Del Sol RV Park in Bullhead City, AZ. This is a really nice RV park. It seems like we stop here every year as we head west. But this year we're going north to Vegas to get a part to fix our auto leveler system before we head east. 

Here is our site in Vista Del Sol. We get this site every year. #73. It's a huge back in site. The new Motor home was way easier to back in than the old 5th wheel. I love that and don't miss the 5th wheel at all! 

Huge site.

Just before we left Yuma I got the new tire valve extenders installed on the back tires. Now we can monitor the tire pressure and temperature. Tires on the RV and the car are the most important thing to keep an eye on. We hate blow outs. We've only had one in all our travels, but it wasn't a fun one.

We had some entertainment right next to us, a little construction work. I could not understand what was going on, they only spoke Spanish. Until they needed the bathroom code. Glad I could help. They worked pretty hard in the mid day hot sun and it was 96 out.

Patti and Joel turned us on to a new drink "Little Beers" and they were really good.

We got here and parked the Motor home and went to one of our favorite places to get a Philly Steak and Cheese, But the cook got mad and quit just before we got there. So we had to go back the next day to get our Philly fix. 

We only have a little over a 100 miles to get to National Indoor RV Center. We'll stay there for two nights. When we get there, we're going to get our next fix at Naked Pizza: Beef on Wick. If you've never had a Beef on Wick you don't know what you're missing. The first time I had a Beef on Wick was in Tonawanda, New York. This is the only other place we've found them.

We did a trip to Oatman, AZ. It's an old mining town not far from here. They have the wild Burros roaming the streets.

We stopped at the Oatman Hotel to have an adult beverage. Before we hit all the junk shops in town.

 

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Katie napping in one of her favorite places.

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Best in Class

 I would like to talk about RV dealers. I hate RV dealers! But we have found a really good one! We got the motor home from National Indoor RV Center in Las Vegas. We purchased the motor home on December 15th. They had a hard time getting the title to us so when we registered it in South Dakota there was a $940.00 fine for registering after 45 days. Peggy notified the dealer and they said they would reimburse us the fine. Now, that is a good dealer. I

 got a check in the mail a week after we sent them the proof of the fine. I Love NIRVC. 

In all our travels we found a really good RV repair shop in Mesa, AZ. We had to get a slide replaced in the old RV. Arizona RV services did a great job on the new slide. So I would make the them the best repair shop.

The worst RV dealer is General RV. We had a real hard time with them. I would not recommend anybody buying an RV or doing any service with them!

We got our outdoor lighting fixed. The company put a dimmer switch on non dimmer lights. So that burned out most of them. Now we have a regular switch on them and they are working great. 

We took the motor home out for a test drive with the car in tow. It worked great. Here is Peggy driving for the first time. I bought some valve stem extenders to put on the back duallys. But I got the wrong ones, so I had to order ones for 22.5 tires. I hope they get here before we leave next Sunday.

Here I'm changing the vent on the black tank to a solar powered vent. We think this will help on keeping the black tank stink out of the RV. Keep your fingers crossed! I hate going on the roof.

Mike and Heather came over in their sand rail. But later they came back with a flat rear tire. Bummer. But a little help from their neighbor and a couple of beers we got them home.

Some friends we met in Tombstone a couple of years ago came over Sunday. Patti and Joel. We had a good time talking to them. They're here all week. 

We went downtown to the Prison Hill Brewery to have dinner. The food was OK. The beer was good.

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Pizza on the Mini Max.

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Slowing Down Here

 It's starting to slow down here. Almost all the Canadians have left for the great north. They only get to stay for 182 days, then go back north. Golf on Tuesday is done but the men's league is still playing on Thursday mornings. 

Here we are at the Yuma Market Place and it will be closing soon too.

I got a new gadget. It goes in the data port on the motor home and reports all the engine data to a Samsung tablet. It's pretty cool, right up my alley. Just something to play with.

This is the screen on the tablet that I built to read the Blue Fire data. This will be in the cab to monitor the engine. Fun stuff.

We had a little corn hole tournament at Brad and Sandi's place in the park. I suck at corn hole.

 Peggy got some new pictures of the new RV on our lot. We are starting to get ready to start our trip for the summer. We have most of our reservations made already. The final destination is Stone Mountain State park in Atlanta for Eggtoberfest. Then, race back to Yuma for the winter.

Beautiful flowers in Mexico with Trump's wall in the background. We went over to get me a new pair of sunglasses. My old ones were 10 years old and I love my new ones.

My new glasses work good and I can see much better now.

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I cooked some chicken and brussel sprouts on the Mini-Max. I marinated the chicken in milk and dill pickle juice. It was pretty good. If you leave a comment I will send you the recipe.

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Happy St Patricks Party

 We put on a huge St. Patrick's Day party here at the BGE RV Resort! A ton of friends showed up and had a good time with good food and cold beverages.

Lots of green!

Duff and I on the shelfie cam.

We got the old shotski out and had lots of laughs.

It didn't work too well with short people.

So we put Faye on a step to make it work right.

Kathy, Sandy and Carol working the shelfie cam.

I smoked a little Brisket for the party. It went fast. We had a ton of other food to eat.

Peggy and I were at Crazy Earl's and saw this really cute frenchy in the bar and had to get this picture.

Some Blog readers stopped by, Doug and Michelle. They were on their way to San Diego and just wanted to meet us. I should've gotten a picture of them and their motorhome. I will get it next time they stop by.

We got our power monitor. I built it into our old RV. I believe this is a "must have" to protect the power coming to the RV. It can tell if the power pole is wired right. We've had it tell us that the power had problems a bunch of times. Once, we were in a new park and found that they had all their power poles wired without the ground wire and my monitor found that problem.

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Here's Joe trying to find his BGE in all that SNOW. That four letter word. That does not look like fun to me.

 

  

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