Viva Las Vegas!

It was an interesting ride from Show Low, AZ to Las Vegas yesterday. It was a long drive for us, we usually try and drive 6 hours or less. We left at 8:30 and arrived at 5:00. Our drive was over 400 miles. What was interesting was that we started out with temperature in the mid 70's. Around Flagstaff it got down to 47 degrees, driving through sleet, rain, thunder and lightning and strong winds. In the last 75 to 100 miles the scenery gets pretty boring!

After setting up the RV went over to the Boulder Station casino and had a bite to eat. We gambled for about an hour (Jeri, we both played Wizard of Oz machines) and won enough to cover dinner!

Today we are meeting friends David and Debbie for brunch!

More later and "ain't life grand"!

Show Low scenic drive

Today we took a scenic drive into Apache Reservation country south of Show Low. It was a beautiful drive, mountains and valleys, red rocks, pine trees. Didn't get any pictures today because heavy rain, wind, thunder and lightning followed us around (about 100 miles)! The temperature changed around every curve fluxuating from 79 degrees down to 52 degrees and up again! Today we experienced it all.

After our drive we stopped for lunch and we had an indian fry bread taco. That was the first time I have had indian fry bread and it is yummy!

Tomorrow we are heading for Las Vegas. We will visit one of my former bosses and his wife, David and Debbie Hawkins. Probably have to visit a casino or two, hopefully making a withdrawl and not a deposit!

Rain or shine, "ain't life grand"!

The Road to Show Low, Arizona!

We left New Mexico yesterday morning and traveled along I40. It is a beautiful drive there are red mesa's and mountains, my pictures don't really do it justice. As we drove into Arizona, the scenery changed. There was less red but still beautiful. We turned down 77 south and there was alot of scrub brush. Not what we were thinking we would see. A few miles from Show Low we got to the Sitgreaves National Forest and the scenery changed. There were lots of pine trees. We are at 6300 feet. We took a short drive around the area. A nice size town and very pretty. It was 44 degrees this morning when Max and I walked at 6:15!

When we got back to the campground, we had a huge thunder and lightning storm (very close) with only a little rain. Max really doesn't like the thunder. He went back and forth from me to Ted wanting us to stop the thunder. We finally had to close the windows and turn up the tv so he could relax!

The road to Show Low AZ!

Once again "ain't life grand!"

BRRRRRRR!

40 Degrees outside this morning! Grants, NM is around 6400 feet and chilly! Had a bit of rain last night through a beautiful sunset. Even had a pretty rainbow but by the time I got my camera out it was gone!

We are headed for Show Low, Arizona this morning about 180 miles. Show Low is around 5000 feet so may be chilly there also. Should be a beautiful area. We never know if we will have wi-fi or not so thought I'd blog this morning!

Our dinner last night was fantastic! It was nice to have it delivered to us piping hot!

Have a nice day because "ain't life grand"!

Made it out of Texas!

We got our truck back yesterday and left Amarillo today (finally). We still have the problem where the truck lugs or surges going uphill :( but today we only had one small instance of black smoke and we made it to Grants, New Mexico (almost to Gallop) without any trouble.

We are in a KOA campground and they have dinners that they cook and deliver right to your RV. We are having Ribs and Brisket! Hope it will be yummy (anyway, I'll have no dishes to do tonight)! The campground is near a volcano and there are tons of lava fields all around us, pretty interesting.

We've been having some rain, thunder and lightning the last couple of days. Drove through some rain today. Tonight the temperature is supposed to be in the low 40's! Gotta unshrink the comforter!

Hopefully we are on our way again and "ain't life grand (still)"!

Lava Field in back of the campground

Lava field - rain in the background!
Cute little rental cabins at the campground
Max wants to check out the cabins!

Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day to our friends, family and especially our service men and women.

Since we are landlocked at the campground and nothing much is going on. Just doing laundry, writing a blog and blah blah blah! Thought I'd enclose a picture collage of my stepdad Hal, his youngest son Ron, oldest daughter Carol Ann, Ron's ex-wife Coleen and Snooper the dog!

How we are spending our Memorial Day Weekend!

We have been off-line, no wi-fi so need to catch up.We are currently in Amarillo, Texas. Our x@#$%ing truck saga continues! We have had the truck at the Albuquerque Ford dealer, the Boerne, Tx Ford dealer, the Ft. Worth Ford dealer and yesterday at the Amarillo Ford Dealer. We were all set, ready to go, 3 miles from the campground, sputter, cough, black smoke, white smoke yikes! We limped off the freeway and had to call for a tow truck for the truck and the 40 foot 5th wheel! And now we are back at the Amarillo Ford Dealer. Wow that was fun!Anyway, we are safe, back in a campground with no transportation to enjoy the Memorial Weekend.

We hope all of our friends and family enjoy their Memorial Day and maybe have a little more excitement than we are having! The good news is we can rest up and have internet access again!

Our very own Parade!

Before we were stranded, we managed to tour the Palo Duro State Park! Here are a couple of pictures from the park...

The other local attraction we were able to visit: The Big Texan Steakhouse! If you eat the 72 oz steak in one hour, it's free! Needless to say, we just had the regular size steaks!