Happy Halloween

We might be getting a trick or treater tonight.. I know there's one visiting his grandmother here in the park. Hopefully he'll stop by.
I've been a little bored but things are picking up this week.
Friends are arriving almost daily and the park opens it's winter season starting tomorrow. We have finished the "driveway" that we were having done and we can now park our tow trailer on it. Our extra lot is being sold in a couple of weeks and we wanted to park the trailer where we could keep an eye on it.
Friends Bonnie, Ralph, Phyl and Larry are expeced to arrive sometime tomorrow and their relatives next Monday.. Happy hours will be starting now. Someone usually has one going on nightly. We're planning a get together on Wed night with about 7 people so that will be fun.

5 Guys vs In and Out

When we got back to the valley last week we noticed they'd open a 5 Guy's burgers and Fries near Cracker Barrel.. We'd tried In and Out for the first time this summer so we had to try these cause several people had told us they were just as good.. So today we stopped in. Guess what.. In and Out doesn't have anything to worry about.. I didn't think it was good at all. Mine was bad.. just bad.. one of the patties (I didn't know I was ordering a double) was ice cold.. the other one was hot but just not a good experience.. I'll be looking forward to In and Out once we get to AZ next spring.. (they are in Dallas now but we're not going that way either.)
I will try one again somewhere else just to see if maybe it's this location but right now I'm in no rush to try it again. The cost was a lot higher that In and Out also.

Back at LVR

The sun is shinning and people are arriving a few at a time. Today there's a group going for lunch at Peter Piper Pizza. It's a park tradition on the 3rd Wed of each month. That will be fun cause a few that's signed up I haven't run into yet around the park.
I have to finish moving clothes to the casita and a few can good and then everything will pretty much be where it needs to be.
Lady has had a couple of spins around the park this week and she's in princess mode when we're riding..Head held high and ears blowing in the wind.
Reid's been super busy getting all the patio furniture washed up and in their spots and of course the golf cart is fixed too. I keep telling him to "pace" himself but so far this week he hasn't.

It's winter time

We drove about 6 hrs today and arrived back in Mission about 3pm. This is where we'll be for the winter but winter hasn't made it to the valley yet and we hope it want be here for a while... did I mention that it was 95 degrees here today and 98 is expected for tomorrow.. It's cooling down to the mid 80's by the middle of the week (we'll see want we)
It's still pretty quiet here and it will be for another couple of weeks then it will get busy..I'm guessing there's about 30 households that live here year round now so the park is never really empty.. A couple of new houses have been build since we left back in March and a couple RV lots did get sold over the summer. That's pretty much all the changes I saw.
We'll spend the week getting all settled in. First thing to do...Fix the battery cable on the golf cart so Lady can get a ride.

Mopar Fest

Today we headed to the Lonestar MoparFest. There were 275 cars signed up to attend and I'm guessing over half were Challengers.. It was great to see so many of them in all colors. too cool. The day was long and hot and yes I got some sun burn but it was still fun. A little different than I thought it would be but still fun. We ran into some of the people that we saw in San Antonio and visited with them for a while before heading back to the rv..
We are heading out early in the morning for Mission. We'll be back at Leisure sometime tomorrow afternoon.
We've had a fun 3 weeks and now we'll get rested up this winter, we'll Reid will, my winter is busier than the summer months with my activities at the park.. walking, riding, golf, dancing, just to name a few.. oh and don't forget the happy hours.. I'll bring the wine...Reid gets it.

Arrived in Houston

We arrived at the park near Houston yesterday. Our park is crowded with long term users that have their RV's, supply trailers and their tow rig so it makes for a crowded park.. We'd love to find RV parks that just has fellow RV'ers moving from location to location enjoying this great country but more and more we're finding the parks over crowded with area workers.. I guess they need to have a place to stay but it makes finding RV parks difficult..do I sound like Reid.
Today we drove to Livingston to get our tags for the car and get our mail. The trip went surprisingly well. We usually have issues when we go there but today our paperwork was there and ready for us when we arrived and our mail was ready also. So we were in and out within an hour.
Tomorrow will be an easy day, we just have to get a few things at Walmart. Saturday will be our busy day cause we'll be at the car event all day. It should be fun. We've seen several Challengers driving around town already.. Hope they are going to be at the show.

Sunday in San Antonio

I love sleeping with rain hitting the roof top but it was so loud last night it kept us both awake (I should say all three of us) It started raining real hard about 12:30 and continued till 3ish that's when I dozed off so till then Lady and I just watched the lightening out the window and listened to the rain on the roof top.. Reid tossed and turned and mumbled off and on that he couldn't sleep with it raining so hard. Same situation but two different perspective.
Today we had made plans to met our nephew, Ryan and his fiancee', Crystal at Pappasita's.. We've been there before and really liked it so we thought we'd try it again.. At one time we heard that this chain was coming to the valley and they did build the seafood restaurant there but so far not this one.. it would be nice to have this one since we haven't found a mexican restaurant we like in the valley yet.
We had a nice visit with Ryan and Crystal. It was our first time to met her and she was very nice, sweet. Kinda quiet but one talker at the table is plenty..LOL

Reid brings the rain to San Antonio

We hit town yesterday afternoon and brought the rain with us. We knew it was going to be a wet weekend but that's normal for us when we're in San Antonio. They've had 3.5 inches the last 24 hrs but still need more for the drought.
I still think that SA is one of our favorite places to visit. Last night we headed down town for a car thing...I'm sure theres a term for it but I can't think of it right now anyway there's a car club here in SA that has Challengers, Chargers and other Dodge muscle cars that met monthly and Reid keeps up with them online since there's not one in the valley. Anyway since this was their weekend to met we decided to go.. This is held at the Pig Stand which is a restaurant that's been around here since the 1920's. We didn't know if they just meet here in the parking lot or went here to eat so we decided to get there early and eat (we hadn't eaten all day) and the food was great.. I have ribs and they were very tender along with potato salad and fried okra..finished it off with sweet tea.. nothing better. As we finished our meal we started seeing cars arrive.. there were 12 total (with the weather bad we didn't know how many if any were still planning to come) 6 of them were challengers. We're going to see several of these people again next weekend at the Mopar thing in Houston.. Theres over 250 cars expected that weekend.

Almost to San Antonio

Today we left Las Cruces and we're half way between El Paso and San Antonio, so far no rain but we hear it's on it's way. Wouldn't you know it as soon as we're back in TX they are calling for rain and lots of it but that's ok cause TX needs it so bad. I told Reid weeks ago we should head back cause he brings the rain.. He doesn't see the humor in it. We're only staying here for overnight then we'll head into San Antonio tomorrow.
Talked to Steph today and you can already see snow on Mt Charleston from our patio. She said she wasn't aware that it would get cool this early in the yr but she's stuck there now isn't she. LOL

Las Cruces

After leaving Tucson we stopped for a couple of nights here in Las Cruces, It's a good stop and our favorite all time Mexican restaurant is here..Good thing there's a nice RV park close by for us to stay in. We always enjoy this area. We went to LaPosta yesterday afternoon and again it didn't disappoint.. it was sooo good. Can't wait for our next time through the area to have it again.

Tucson

We arrived in Tucson yesterday. We're staying at Lazydays which use to be Beautry rv park.
We've stayed here before. We had planned to go to Old Tucson Studios but after we arrived we found out that they were only open on weekends for the month of Oct. So we'll have to do that next time we come through here.
Today we went out to Olive garden for lunch.. We both decided to have Lasagna Classico and it's a good thing they give plenty of salad and bread sticks cause when we got our order the lasagna was so small Reid told the waiter it looked like an appetizer. The slice of lasagna couldn't have been 2 in squared.. I felt sorry for Reid so I gave him part of mine.. I had salad and he didn't so it worked out ok..
We're leaving town on Wed heading to Las Cruces for a couple of days.

this week flew by

We'll be leaving in the morning but we have a fun packed week here in Apache Junction.
We took a drive yesterday to the restaurant that we'd heard about. Well, the food was really good but the service (actually one waitress) was awful.. I usually give them a lot of slack but there was no excuse for how rude, unhelpful and nasty she was. We wouldn't go back that's for sure.
Today we headed to the Swap Meet.. We each found something that we had to have..Some of us found more than others...At one point the guys had found stuff but we girls hadn't but we caught up fast.
After we left it was time to make our AZ trip to In and Out.. It didn't disappoint.. The place was crowded which I believe all of them stay crowded but the burger was wonderful.. we plan to hit the one in Tucson before we leave the state.
Tomorrow we move on down the road for 3 nights in Tucson..