Mesa AZ

We decided to leave Kingman a day early so we traveled the three plus hours yesterday and arrived at Happy Days RV park about 1PM.
 It's really a mobile home park with a few RV's tossed in but from looking around that's the norm around here and that's ok. Most of the regular residents in this park don't seem to be here yet but I'm sure that will be changing closer it gets to Nov 1st. We had to get the three S's out of the way so we could start enjoying our visit.. (set-up, shower and supper). Actually on this visit Supper was part of the visit cause we met Nancy and Bob at Garcia's Mexican Restaurant for a wonderful late lunch/supper and then went back to the RV park so Nancy could spoil my girls with treats and we visited another couple of hours..
 This afternoon they will head back over for supper, we're grilling out steak compliments of Nancy and Bob and Nancy is doing a potato recipe I haven't tried but it sounds like I might be stealing the recipe from her. I'm adding a couple of veggies dishes too the mix as well.
 We're going to be in town for a week so you know it will be a week of visits, food, food and visits.
 Reid heard the 2nd AC unit go out on the rig this morning.. It's in the 90's today but cooling off to the mid 70's the rest of the week so it shouldn't be too bad with only one air. Trying to decide if we'll get it repaired here or wait till TX.. Good news: it's under warranty
 We wanted our usual Sunday breakfast of McD's and found one across from the Walmart about 2 miles from here so that will be handy for me to get back and forth from. (as long as I turn left when I'm suppose to.)
Safe travel prayers to our friends heading to back to Mission.. I know that Rita & Dan left MI yesterday and Peg & Jim left this morning and I'm pretty sure Jim and Linda are leaving MN soon. So everyone be safe and see y'all soon.

Travel day 1 completed

We put the precious cargo in the rig (Lady and Molly) about 9am on Thurs and headed out of town.. Of course it took over an our to get over to 95 because of road construction but we all kept our cool and waited for the construction traffic jam to ease then we were off. The jam up was due to Hwy 160 being repaved (it was in great shape before so not sure why they were repaving it when there are roads in worse shape) but they had traffic down to one lane so we waited and waited.. The sign said to expect up to 30 minute delays but it wasn't that long.
 We traveled through Vegas then around Lake Mead and over Hoover Dam taking 93 over to Kingman AZ.. We are at Blakely Ranch RV park tonight. We needed a post office to mail some of the Get A Life Media dvd's orders so after driving around this city for a while we decided to eat at Cracker Barrel,  my idea, I love CB and NV doesn't have any so it's been 7 months without it.. It was yummy.. Reid gets to choose the next place since he happily went with my suggestion yesterday..  While there I asked one of the ladies directions to the post office and she spoke my language.. not miles, not north south east and west, and not street names.. she said leave this parking lot, she pointed left and go past the walgreens and the car place and take the road on the left beside the car place and it took us right to the PO parking lot.. Yeah.. We have to go back later today so now we know where we're going..
 I've had a wonderful, crisp two mile walk this morning and the girls and I are heading over to the puppy park in a few minutes for their walk.. What fun..
Reid is busy working on the web orders getting them ready to mail. Right now the girls are sleeping so I'll wait till they get restless again before disturbing them for their walk.
 More later as we travel back to TX.
 

Countdown to TX

After almost 7 months it's time to be heading back to TX for the winter.. We're actually getting a later start than normal for us. No real reason just not in any rush to get anywhere. We're going to take our time getting there and enjoy the trip down.
 Our leave date will be Thurs and the past couple of days has been "spring cleaning" and only taking what we'll need for the winter. I'll stay busy the next three days getting the final items packed away inside the rig.. The girls are following me around the house as I pick up things and pack them. Lady fully knows what's going on while Molly just follows me around. Lady has been doing this for over 7 yrs now but it's only Molly's third trip and she's still learning the ropes.
 Our first day's travel will be to Kingman. I'll keep you all posted as to our stops along the way.