St David, Van Horn and San Antonio

I really thought I'd posted since Mesa but it appears I didn't. We're fine.. We did the first half of the trip in 11 days. And the last half we did in three days so it was hectic but it was a good trip..
We stayed in St David for two nights. It's a membership park and it was pretty nice..No complaints not even ants..
Then it was off to Van Horn, TX nothing much there just a place to stop in between AZ border and San Antonio. The only thing I remember about Van Horn is the grass is full of sand spurs.. If you don't know what that is ask your puppies.. They are very sharp sticky spurs and the girls can't walk once they get in their paws. They are tiny some times and you can't see them so I took the girls for their walks and the spurs got all over the girls paws and fur and our shoes and we track them all over the RV. It's been swept, vac'd and I've also hand picked them out of the carpet and we're still stepping on them in our sock feet.. it's awful..
 Leaving Van Horn and stopping for the night near SA. We stayed outside the city about 40 miles and we alway have to stop at Sea Island Shrimp House when we come through there.. it's delicious. There's four locations there but we'd sure love for one to open in Mission.
 We left at 7am to avoid rush hour but about three minutes later we were already getting to heavy traffic so we took the loop around the city hoping to avoid a lot of the congestion and we did pretty good for the most part.. 1 hr and 20 minutes later we were out of the city and heading toward the valley.

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.

WOW

I can't believe it's been over two months since I blogged.. I was going to do better.. Maybe I just had so much going on that I didn't have time.. I will say it was a much faster summer than I thought it would be.. But I did keep myself busy.. I have to stay busy or I'll get bored  and if I'm bored I'm restless. So I was at the gym 5 days a week with 7 classes and no it didn't help lose weight but it does keep me active and the joint stiffness eased up..
Of course I played with my girls all summer.. They are as cute as ever.
My Mary Kay business is off and running.. I have enjoyed working it and meeting others women.. It's  been a lot of fun.. I do have a website so I'll share that with you guys and if anyone ever needs any product and you don't work with a consultant I'd love to have you order with me.. If you have friends or family that need Mary Kay please feel free to give them my name, number and website.
 My website is www.marykay.com/drucker5
I'm hearing that people are starting to arrive in Mission already.. We are tentatively leaving here (NV) on the 24th of Oct.. As always that's subject to change.
 Once we get on the road I'll try to keep you updated.. There's some that like to know where we're at each day or week.

Staying Busy

I can finally say I have plenty to keep me busy here.. Remember last post and I said I was going to a Mary Kay party.. We'll I went and then I decided to start selling Mary Kay.. I hope this is going to be lots of fun and a good way to met more people.
 I had my grand opening today and it went pretty good. My director and team leader were here to help me and show me the ropes and we got to make up Steph which was fun.
 So if anyone out there needs product or wants to try it out let me know I'll be happy to assist you.
 Yesterday a group of us from the gym did a girls day out. We drove into Vegas for a late lunch and a movie.. had a blast..
 I drove and Steph went with me along with a gym friend, Nancy (another Nancy friend) and we got out of the movie about 7 the rest wanted to go to Kohl's and normally I would too but it was already so late so we just headed back to Pahrump, we'll it was a good choice cause within about 15 minutes a bad thunderstorm moved through and there were 26 reported car crashes (no one here can drive in the rain cause it happens so rarely) anyway there were 70MPH winds, pouring rain, roads flooding, power outages.. The rest of the crew were stuck in Vegas waiting for the roads to clear out and didn't get home till midnight.. (but they were all safe) So glad we didn't get caught in all that mess. Looks like Vegas is getting another storm tonight. The only rain we've had here in three and a half months has been sprinkles. Oh Wait Reid just said the rain that's been hovering over the mountain looks like it's heading our way.. Gonna go out and watch it happen.
 

it's been awhile

I haven't updated in a while but I'm not sure anyone reads this so maybe no one noticed.
 We've been back in Pahrump for three months now.. I'm happy to say I'm staying busy so the time hasn't gone by too slowly.
 I've met a few people and that's made it more fun for me.
 I joined the gym April 1 and go to 7 classes a week so the ladies that are at the gym are the ones I know. We've done a couple of things outside of the gym so they are including me as one of their own.
 One of the aerobic instructors had a luncheon at her house in early June and we played games afterwards.. Someone said it's good job security for her to have luncheons so we'll need to go back to the gym, (Ha). Today one of the ladies is having a Cupcake and color party at the Chamber. She's a Mary Kay lady and her director is in town so they put on this event. I'm going to check it out later. When there's a birthday in the aerobics group we go out for lunch too.
 Steph and I are bowling once a week. Our scores are getting better. She will spend next week moving back into our house.. Her lease is up Aug 31 and she'd planned to move back in in Sept so she'll been here during the winter when we were gone but the owner of the house she's renting is wanting to sell the house and offered to let her out of her lease early so we didn't see any reason for her not to go ahead and move back in.. Molly is older now so we hope there's not too much drama with her cat, Phoenix and Molly..
We spend about 6 hrs each Sunday driving into Vegas for Church.. it's a long day but we enjoy it.. We stop for lunch usually and we've found a very good Mexican place called Super Mex.. Very tasty. I've also started volunteering in the nursery and I made 10 dozen cookies for VBS..I actually make 13 dozen but one was for Reid and one for Steph and one extra for replacement cookies in case some broke (some did)
Some friends from Mission passed through town Memorial Day week.. Angie & Rick and Deb & Phillip.. so we had happy hour on our patio with them.. It was so good to see people we know.
The pool is finally warming up and usable.. With our temps hitting 113 the next three days the pool will get used by me.. Reid is in it nightly.
 I guess I've caught you back up if anyone's interested.