Off on Another Adventure

September 26^th:

Left Deming Just before 9:00AM.....Glad to have gotten some sleep for a change last night. Stopped in Wilcox AZ for fuel and continued forward...Decided to spend the night at the Pilot truck stop in Buckeye AZ, set up camp and relaxed a bit...Before long I started dinner...very simple BLT's...No sooner got started when a weird noise interrupted the day...sounds like a busted water line................Opened the bathroom door to a wild spray of water.....Killed the water pump...Well Damn, I have seem this before.....Crap. Mopped up the floor with a towel and started looking for the parts/tools I needed for the fix....Found the tools but not the parts so went about the task of removing the water line to the toilet,,,then removing the toilet, sure enough the water supply inlet valve was split..Without the parts, I reset the toilet in place so it would not roll around...OK, so no water until we get parts. Been there done that....Finished dinner and called it a day....

September 27^th:

I think we got out of the truck stop a bit past 8:00 AM...In a little over an hour we were in Quartzsite, which would have RV parts. First place we stopped did not have what we needed, so moved on.. Found what we wanted at RV Lifestyles at the West end of Quartzsite.....Went to pay but my card was turned down....Another crap.....Called the bank, but only got menuses, finally got the right one and authorized my purchases...Card then went through fine. All is good,,,back on the road again....

Crossed into California at Blyth and headed up Hyway 95 North towards Bullhead City AZ...On the way we stopped for 2 Geocaches. Found both... Had lunch at the cross roads of 95 and 62 (Vidal Junction). Then forged forward..Some time around 2:00 PM arrived at our destination of Riverside RV park in Bullhead City and set up...After a bit of a rest I tackled the toilet job....What should have been a 20-30 minute job ended up being a couple of hours...Yeah, I am getting use to short jobs taking 10 times longer than they should...Pressure tested everything and to my delight all was good, we got water again...

September 28^th:

This was a relax and rest up day. We did take a ride across the river to Laughlan to look around. We stopped at the Edgewater Casino and did a walk through. Evidently the same outfit owns the E Center where Dolly will be playing. That evening we went to the Mohave Steakhouse for dinner...Great meal. We both ordered Prime Rib, but they only had one left and offered us a combo meal, we opted for a half rack of ribs...Both were outstanding.

Sept 29^th:

The plan for today is to head over to Oatman for a look see..

We made it......Had a great time roaming around town taking pictures and browsing the stores, oh yeah and visiting the Donkey's. There were I think 3 baby's in the lot, they pretty much own the town...Saw 1 grab a plastic bag which contained a paper bag of donkey food out of a guys hand...1 was pulling a vendors wares from and outside shelf, Had lunch at the Oatman Hotel it included Burro Ears...........Basically homemade potato chips.

 

September 30^th:

The big day. Kinda laid around today doing virtually nothing...Did manage to get the cover put back on the generator and fix a drawer slide...We headed over to the E-Center around 6:00 pm and I guess it was a good thing as the concert was not held there..We were sitting inside the casino to kill a little time and I put a $10.00 in the penny slot that I was sitting at...Bang....Cashed out $91.00 and change...Headed through the hallway towards the E-center and a woman asks if we are going to the concert...yes....Got to catch a bus outside as the concert is at the outside concert center. So it's outside and into a very long line to one of the buses....After a 2 mile ride we end up a block away from where we started...That's just messed up...We walked back after the concert...Great concert, even for a 70 year old..Good job Dolly. Her humor was outstanding, as well as her singing.

Oct 1:

A lay around catch up on rest day, accomplish absolutely nothing.

Oct 2^nd: Headed for Williams AZ. Well not quite, because Peanut was not doing well, we diverted and headed for home......Got in about 8:30 that evening.

Oct 3^rd:

Took Peanut to the vets, decided she did not need to suffer and had her put down.....Sad day, she will be missed....Took her home and buried her. She had had liver problems for the last several months and was on medication although it did not seem to help...