March 28, 2013

Bill cooked us a really good breakfast this morning...bacon, eggs, hash browns, and toast.  Happy tummies!

I needed strength because I was going to a bead store and that takes tons of energy.  I spent quite a bit of time looking at all their beads and other supplies.  They had a large inventory.  I didn’t buy very much, but enjoyed looking at all the pretty beads.

We went to Costco and Walmart before going back to the motorhome.  The front seats were just about finished.  They did a fantastic job on them.  We are very satisfied with the job they did.

At about 4:00, we moved the coach to Premier Motor Coach.  They will do some work on it in the morning.

March 27, 2013

March 27, 2013

We left the house at 9:30, headed for Old Tucson.  Yeehaw!  There were high, thin clouds.  We had hoped that with no direct sunshine it would not be a scorcher.  It might have helped a bit and there was a breeze blowing.

When we first got in the complex we took a walking tour with a historian.  It was very interesting.  He said with films, TV shows, documentaries, and advertisements being filmed there, the total is up to 700.  A film was just finished two months.

We walked around the streets, looking into various buildings.  We took a train ride around the town, with the engineer telling more interesting history of the place.

There was an interesting film museum where we spent quite a lot of time.  Many of our favorite Westerns were filmed there.

As we got ready to leave we talked to the historian for about 10 minutes.  That was an added bonus.

On the way back into Tucson I ask Tex where he wanted to eat lunch.  His choice was In-N-Out and, of course, that was fine with me.  Just as we got our order, a group of baseball players from a small college in Iowa came in.  Including coaches, the group totaled about 40.  They had been at a tournament.  It didn’t sound as if they did too well.

When we got home our sofa was back in place.  They did a really good job.  Bill’s place with a dent in it was very firm and comfortable.  He’s especially pleased with the the work they did.

After a chef salad for dinner, I worked on a beading project.  It is a bracelet I had started in Yuma before I got sick.  Hopefully, I can work on it some more tomorrow.

March 26, 2013

We were planning to visit Old Tucson where over 300 Westerns were filmed.  The only problem was that we couldn’t find it.  We drove and drove and made numerous u-turns.  Finally we got to the right place.  It was getting warm and it was lunchtime so we decided to return tomorrow earlier in the day.  

The up side to our adventure was the beautiful drive through that part of the country.  The hillsides were thick with saguaro, thousands of them.  It was a beautiful sight.  They are very slow growing.  I am so glad that the saguaro is a protected species.  The very tall ones with lots of arms are magnificent!

We went to Costco for lunch.  They have great hot dogs.  It has been quite a few weeks, maybe even months, since we have been in a Costco area.   

When we got back to the coach, the upholstery people were in the process of removing our sofa.  It needs new foam.  Bill’s special place to sit had a dent in it.  Otherwise it is fine...springs, fabric, things like that.

We spent the rest of the day resting and relaxing.

March 25, 2013

At 8:00 this morning the workers from the upholstery shop came out to coach to get the front seats.  It took a bit of time to get them out, especially the driver’s side.

Later in the morning we went to get an appointment for the MH.  On Friday we will get something or other to do with the lift pump fixed.  Please don’t ask me for any technical questions.  I haven’t a clue!

We were able to find a cache in that area.  

Our next quest required going to some Oriental grocery stores.  I was looking for ponzu, a sauce that Brent likes to use.  Neither of those places had any, but a customer told me she had seen it at Fry’s Super Market.  So that’s where we went.  Sure enough, there it was.  Isn’t that funny?  I thought it was very humorous!

When Brent was stationed here at Davis Monthan AFB there was a Mexican restaurant that he would take us to.  We found it in spite of the fact that it had changed names.  The food was still very good.

On the way home we found another cache.  By then, we were both to tired to trail around looking for any more.  We went home for naps instead.

March 24, 2013

This morning we went to Verizon to get some answers to some of our problems with our data plan.  One of the things I am going to try to do is track our data usage.  Maybe that will help.

Guess where we went for lunch.  Right!  In-N-Out.  Before long, we will be out of their area.  Then we will have to quit cold turkey.  That’s going to be painful!

Before going back home we went to Walmart.  We had gotten so use to the busy Walmarts in Yuma that it was nice to have a store that was only moderately busy.  The arrangement of this one was quite different.  We almost never found the bread or the bagged lettuce.  It was very strange.  Hm-m-m!  It was a challenge.

When we got home we watched the NASCAR race from Fontana, California.  It was a fairly good race with a very exciting finish.  It is two weeks until the next race!

March 23, 2013

It was 11:10 when we left Yuma.  That was NOT a Dane start.  We had much more “getting ready to roll” to do than usual.  We had more to put away and secure after being in one spot for nearly two months.

We are headed for Tucson where we are having the front seats of the MH redone.  We’ll park at the shop where we are having the work done.

We stopped at Dateland on I-8 for three reasons...to eat lunch, find a cache, and get their world famous date shakes.  The first two things we accomplished easily.  The third thing wasn’t a success.  The shake place was very busy.  The guy making the shakes gave mine to someone else.  The line was even longer, and I decided it wasn’t worth the bother.  Bill had had enough time to get a nap so I went back to the coach and we got on the road once more.

Before we got to Gila Bend I took over the steering wheel and drove for about 45 minutes.  Traffic was not too bad, for which I was thankful.  We were steadily gaining in altitude.  The desert was very green compared to Yuma, with lots of vegetation and an abundance of saguaro.

When we got to Tucson we parked the coach at the upholstery shop and put the dish up in time to watch the Ducks basketball team annihilate St. Louis, who had a higher ranking than Oregon.  It was an impressive performance by the guys in green.  They play again next Friday.

We went to Wendy’s for a salad, came back home to eat, and watched Gunsmoke.

Travel Totals:  Mileage, 226...Geocaches found, 1

March 22, 2013

This morning Bill and I went geocaching with Todd.  Bonnie stayed home to catch up on things after being gone for two weeks.  We found 14 caches, with only three DNFs.  

After going back home to fetch Bonnie, we went to Sonic for lunch.  It was a nice day so we sat at a picnic table and visited after we finished eating.

The guys went back home and Bonnie and I went to the 99 Cent Only store.  I was looking for a certain size tray to use when working on my beading projects.  No luck so I will continue the search as we travel along.

From there Bonnie and I went to a bead shop.  It was one that I hadn’t been to before.  We spent quite a bit of time looking at the beads.  There was a large selection to choose from.  We both found some that we just had to have!

We will be leaving Yuma tomorrow morning.  There are several jobs that needed to be taken care of before “setting sail.”  I  rearranged the back of the Honda and adding some more things as space would allow.

When I needed to take a short rest, I used the time to call Verizon about our Mifi.  It took more time than I had expected.  Bonnie had invited us for dinner.  I began to think I would miss the meal because the phone call was taking so long, but I got to their MH just a few minutes late.

Dinner was great.  Afterwards, we built a fire in their fire pit and sat around talking with more friends who dropped by to say goodbye.