Month of May

2011 is moving right along. April went fast but May seems like a slow month but I think that was cause we did so much moving around. We moved today to a different RV park. This one is called Charleston Peak and the scenery is beautiful. Mt Charleston is right out our front window. This park has a winery attached to it but that does't do us much good does it.. Wine tasting is at 10:30 and I can think of several friends who'd love to be here for that. Should I go taste for you guys. LOL
Danny is waiting for his job offer.. hope it comes soon.. he's been told that an offer should be give to him soon.. There are several job openings coming up for this next school year so its a waiting game.
Stephanie has 3 more working days left in her military career. She's completed 8 yrs 11 months and 4 surgeries.... She's found a new place to live and is in the process of registering in classes for the fall.
Lady...can't leave out Lady...she's fat and sassy... not fat, just chubby... as long as she's getting her walks and treats she's fine.
Reid...he's great... sunny, no rain, 80 degrees, low humidity,,, he's lovin it. He always like it when we lived in NV back in the 80's cause it hardly ever rains.
Me..I'm happy most places..

In and Out

Where do I start. Everyone kept telling us that these burgers were the best, but of course we had to try it for ourselves.. Reid's been on the look out for the best buger for years consuming hundreds during this quest. Me not so much.. I eat very few burgers over the course of a yr.. My big burger adventure is if we grill out or once in a while I get a craving for a Mac. (how sorry is that). Since In and Out are only in the west we have been waiting about 4 yrs to try these burgers. I can honestly say that I was thinking more about where to go for supper that our lunch but Reid had been looking forward to it and I wasn't going to hinder his enjoyment so I ordered my first burger of the yr.. That was the BEST burger ever.. The bun just melt in your mouth. Half way through it I was wanting another one.. and next time I think I'll get the double.. Thanks to B&N, W&G, and all the others that told us to try them. We were not disappointed. Now for a reason to drive back into the city for another one..

Some time off the road

Hey I thought I'd updated since Tues but it either didn't save or I didn't write anything, so here goes.
We arrived on Tues after taking 11 days to get for TN to NV. We had pretty good travel weather, some sprinkles and cooler temp than we like but over all it was good. We seem to be in between the fronts that's been moving through the country that has hit MO and OK so badly.
We're at one of our membership parks in Pahrump NV. The park is pretty nice. I like everything about it except for the buddy sites. Those sites are fine if the person's patio beside yours is a friend of yours.
When we lived in Vegas 24 yrs ago we didn't leave the city much so we'd never visited the Pahrump area. We have mountains surrounding us. Mt Charleston still has snow on it.
The weather has been beautiful, highs in the 80's with sun and no rain.. This is a good place for Reid since he doesn't like rain.
We'll be making a trip into Vegas sometime in the next few days cause we need to go to Sam's Club and Reid saw an In and Out Burger when we came through there and he's been wanting to try it, we've heard nothing but good things about them and Reid is always on the lookout for the best burger ever.
We're going north when we leave here just not sure when that will be yet.. we have to make sure the area we're going to is warm, sunny and dry.

Winslow AZ

On Friday we arrived at Meteor Crater RV park near Winslow AZ. We were ready for a couple of down days after a week of travel. We took the car out for a ride yesterday to sightsee (more travel). We drove through the Painted Desert and Petrified Forest. Reid got a lot of pic's of the car at various places on the drive. It was a pretty site and very interesting. Later on our way back to the rv park we drove through Winslow to see where Route 66 went through the city.. It was interesting and we found a place called Bojo's to eat.. It was pretty good, we're always scared to order mexican food cause it's so different everywhere we go but we tried it and it was good.
Today we're just packing back up and getting ready to travel tomorrow. Our stop tomorrow will be Kingman, AZ. Actually a side note. The only place we've made reservations on this whole trip is our membership park in Pahrump. So you guys know that's not usually us.. We (ok, me) like to know where we're stopping and make sure the park isn't full when we get there. but I have to say I've been surprised at how empty the parks have been. It's still early in the summer I guess for them to be full.

Still on I-40 heading west

We left Amarillo on Thur morning heading to Albuquerque. The drive was pretty. Watching the landscape change to southwest look as we move farther west is interesting. We stayed at American RV Park west of Albuq. The park was nice, and I saw a roadrunner barreling through the sites but I didn't have my camera out yet but as fast as he was going I couldn't have gotten his pic anyway.
Albuquerque is at 5500 ft so we knew it would be cooler than Amarillo's sunny and 83 but we didn't know about a cool front.. how we missed that with both of us watching the weather all the time I don't know..but when we arrived at our park it was drizzling and 49 degrees...Can you guys just picture Reid with 49 degrees and drizzle.. it became an inside afternoon and evening..Good thing it was just over night.. Today we heading out again and went another 273 miles and arrived at Meteor Crater RV Park and the altitude is some better but not much at 5000 ft but it started to rain on us as we approached the park and the temp is 54 degrees.. Where is the sunny and 70's we saw on TWC. Tomorrow is suppose to be 79 but Reid's not believing a word of it till he sees it. It's been raining off and on all day. I don't know if this area has been in a drought but if so they are happy Reid's here. We're going to be here till Monday morning and hopefully tomorrow will warm up and be a nice day to get out and see some of the area.

A Small World

We left the Valley in Mar thinking we wouldn't see anyone from there again till fall but today I was out doing two of my favorite things...walking and talking on my cell and as I was talking to Steph I passed a guy sitting out reading. He looked really familiar to me but since I was talking to Steph I kept walking. On my next loop he was still outside so I just asked him (I'm not shy and I'll talk to just about anyone) if his name was Paul. Once I spoke to him he remembered me too. He and his wife Marsha stayed at Leisure over the winter. They became really active in park activities and dances. I didn't get to see Marsha she was getting ready but Paul and I talked for a few minutes about how our summers had been going and where we're heading next. It was so neat to see someone that I knew.

Famous Daves anyone

We left AR on Monday morning to continue our trip west. We did an over night stop in Okla City last night. The only thing good about it was that the weather was cool so there wasn't any chance of storms.. Seems like anytime we come through OKLA CITY it's under some sort of weather warnings. The RV park was just a parking lot and doable only cause it was an over night stop. We left early this morning and made the drive to Amarillo. The good thing about here is.....Famous Dave's is here. Yeah, it's been 10 months since our last visit to FD's. If you love bbq ribs then you have to try FD's. We went there right after we got set up. It didn't disappoint..I had so much food (and I ordered the smallest serving of ribs) that I have another whole meal for later.
The park is really nice with the sites plenty big. We plan to be here till Thurs and then we'll head to our next stop.