Thursday July 20th, 2009
I am sitting here in our backyard, it is 9:14 pm Edmonton time, we have just gotten back from supper at Taco Itzel where 5 of us got a fabulous Mexican meal for $13.00 cdn (156 pesos) which included 3 beverages. They don’t serve alcohol but you can bring your own if you want.
Another great day in Bucerias! Ross actually got the latches on the front door, so the dogs and/or cats can’t open them and we have the drain hose on the washing machine hooked up so when my washer drains it does not go over the cement into my kitchen. I have unpacked all the boxes that we had in the house, wow what a difference, it actually looks like a house rather than a warehouse! My kitchen counters are clean and a bathroom cabinet that I wanted in my bathroom is now in the kitchen holding spices, as I tried to screw in 2 screws into the grout of my tiles in my bathroom and only one would go in! Go figure! So I hung a picture on the screw I put in and gave up on trying to hang the cabinet. I really need some place to put my bathroom stuff, we have no medicine cabinets or any cabinets for that matter. I bought and put together 2 shelves to over the toilets one for each bathroom. Yucky, we found out the other day that we can’t flush toilet paper down the toilet because the pipes are too small, so we had to buy a small garbage can with lid for each bathroom to put our toilet paper in!!! I’m afraid this is customary everywhere in Mexico except for the resorts, their pipes are bigger and better and newer.
I unpacked a box with a lot of photos in it, mostly of the kids, awwwwwwwwwwwwww we really miss you, I don’t know whether or not we will be able to have a family wall in this house as we need concrete nails for all pictures, so we are trying to figure out what to do with them all. It is so humid now, being the rainy season, that paper goes all limp so all our photos are doing this also. I know...............it’s a tough life!
Our garbage gets picked up Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays (at no extra charge, actually there isn’t a charge) and our garbage guys are so cute. They were the ones to help up get the trailer in our yard, so they yelled to let us know they were there, there aren’t any doorbells here, just people saying Hola! They were loading our boxes into the garbage truck and looked in one box and looked at Ross, to say, you left some stuff in the box, then shook it upside down to show that it was empty and laughed! We so love the Mexican people, they are like people used to be like in the olden days, they are so courteous and polite!
We (I) put together a fountain that we are listening to, as we are too far from the ocean to hear the surf, again poor us! We are listening to crickets, and enjoying the cool air, however the sweat is still pouring off of my head, again, poor me!
Gotta go to get the laptop off my legs, as it is very hot also.
Talk to you soon!
Ross and Kim and dogs and cats
Ps: we filled up our pool yesterday and it is slightly on a slant so the water is slowly moving toward the house, (it’s really hard to explain) so anyway we will have to drain it and move the pool closer to the back gate so maybe it will be a little leveller. (sp) We might get a terra cotta pot to put our new palm tree in it, put it beside the pool wall to keep it upright! We will have to see.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Wednesday July 29th, 2009
Hi all, another day in paradise! Not much happening today, Ross and I decided to go through the boxes in the house and put away rather than putting any more in. I have the bedroom unpacked, however my new dresser will not be in for another week, remember then one that Yuan brought was way too long, so he is making me another, I put things away but knowing that I will have to move them again to my new dresser a little less longer.
I had Zack (John and Christies son, he knows more Spanish than us) to tell Lily not to come today as we couldn’t find the floor and the only things that could be cleaned is the bathrooms, but sure as shooten’, she showed up at our door at 2, letting us know that she didn’t get the message as her daughter had thrown her cell phone in the toilet! So she stayed for an hour and half cleaning the bathrooms and vacuuming the hair out of our house. (By the way she walked to our house and back home, lord knows how far she walked, it is a very long way!) (For $5.00 an hour!)
We went to Mega to return the bath stuff that Ross had bought, (that pole was 7 feet high and we needed at least 10’) and it took us ¾’s of an hour to get the return done, and they only gave us store credit. We also got a Mega card, just like a Safeway card! We bought an extension cord for my little TV and satellite receiver but it didn’t have the 3 holes we needed so I am using a 100’ cord (Ross’s of course) until we get another. We also got a small table for our bedroom TV and a stool for my shower stall so I can sit and do my legs!
We have 2 hoses filling our pool, (12x3’) and we are hoping that we can have it filled by tomorrow sometime so I can use my floaty thing, as we have still not spent any time at the ocean as we are trying to get our house in order. I know it is a chore, but what can you do??
We are sitting at John and Christies, we still don’t have our papers for our house so we can get ADSL, smelling lemon chicken cooking, we are going to have taco’s at a very less known restaurant! We still don’t have gas either so our stove is not working yet so alas we still need to eat out!
Well, I think this is it for now; we miss everyone, and hope everyone has a great day!
Talk to you soon
Ross and Kim
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Monday July 27th and Tuesday July 28th, 2009
Sorry I missed a day, wow, what to tell you??? Yesterday we got the big TV out of the trailer and guess what......................Ross is a happy camper. He was so concerned that his TV would be damaged in the move. All 60” of it!!! Yeah. We did a lot of unpacking yesterday and today we had the satellite guys in to get the star choice working and we also had Yuan come in with my furniture! He wasn’t supposed to come until tomorrow!
Wow what a mess, I had satellite guys working on getting the satellite dish put on the roof and into 3 of our rooms and Yuan with his delivery guy bringing in my dresser, (which is way too long, so he let me keep it until he can build another about a 1’ shorter, it is intruding into my bathroom doorway), and we got my kitchen table in but it needs to be littler, it is way too big for the space, he is going to make me another one but smaller, but the hutch he made me is just perfect! He is also going to build me a couple of shelves in my buffet so I have more room to put stuff.
I will send pictures eventually I just need to find the time to download them from the camera, I was going to do it yesterday, but we went over to John and Christies to do some internet and then we went to the new La Fronda development that we will be selling! Wow, the setting is to die for, it is on the beach side of the 200 a little south of us, they don’t even have the first show suite ready yet, but from the pictures I have seen it will be fabulous!
Ross is trying to get the pool set up, only a little 3 footer, but on warm days the cool water will feel good.
We still don’t have our ADSL hooked up yet, we are waiting for the papers from the lawyer to say “hey, we own the joint” they will sell a property that they do now own, but god forbid to get internet set up in a home you own......wow! You need papers and everything.
The weather has been very cloudy yesterday and today, with just some sunny periods. I got another load of laundry done, remember, my washing machine is outside, and my dryer is not set up yet. I need sunglasses to do my laundry! I washed the sheets we had on the bed and put them on a drying line Ross put up for me, so the satellite guys had to walk through my drying sheets in the back yard. I had underwear everywhere trying to dry, it is a sight, let me tell you. I am standing in water in my flip flops getting my washing out of my washer! Just as long it is not lightning I guess I will be ok.
We even dug out our new water cooler, it has to sit for 12 hours cause it was laying on its side in the trailer, so before we go to bed we will plug it in and put the water bottle on it that Ross bought today, so tomorrow we will have water cooler water. It is a lot less expensive than water bottles. I’ve never had a water cooler in my house!
It is getting very blowy out and my computer is getting some water on it so I think I will say goodnight and sweet dreams, I will try to do better on my blog, daily!
See you soon,
Ross and Kim
Sorry I missed a day, wow, what to tell you??? Yesterday we got the big TV out of the trailer and guess what......................Ross is a happy camper. He was so concerned that his TV would be damaged in the move. All 60” of it!!! Yeah. We did a lot of unpacking yesterday and today we had the satellite guys in to get the star choice working and we also had Yuan come in with my furniture! He wasn’t supposed to come until tomorrow!
Wow what a mess, I had satellite guys working on getting the satellite dish put on the roof and into 3 of our rooms and Yuan with his delivery guy bringing in my dresser, (which is way too long, so he let me keep it until he can build another about a 1’ shorter, it is intruding into my bathroom doorway), and we got my kitchen table in but it needs to be littler, it is way too big for the space, he is going to make me another one but smaller, but the hutch he made me is just perfect! He is also going to build me a couple of shelves in my buffet so I have more room to put stuff.
I will send pictures eventually I just need to find the time to download them from the camera, I was going to do it yesterday, but we went over to John and Christies to do some internet and then we went to the new La Fronda development that we will be selling! Wow, the setting is to die for, it is on the beach side of the 200 a little south of us, they don’t even have the first show suite ready yet, but from the pictures I have seen it will be fabulous!
Ross is trying to get the pool set up, only a little 3 footer, but on warm days the cool water will feel good.
We still don’t have our ADSL hooked up yet, we are waiting for the papers from the lawyer to say “hey, we own the joint” they will sell a property that they do now own, but god forbid to get internet set up in a home you own......wow! You need papers and everything.
The weather has been very cloudy yesterday and today, with just some sunny periods. I got another load of laundry done, remember, my washing machine is outside, and my dryer is not set up yet. I need sunglasses to do my laundry! I washed the sheets we had on the bed and put them on a drying line Ross put up for me, so the satellite guys had to walk through my drying sheets in the back yard. I had underwear everywhere trying to dry, it is a sight, let me tell you. I am standing in water in my flip flops getting my washing out of my washer! Just as long it is not lightning I guess I will be ok.
We even dug out our new water cooler, it has to sit for 12 hours cause it was laying on its side in the trailer, so before we go to bed we will plug it in and put the water bottle on it that Ross bought today, so tomorrow we will have water cooler water. It is a lot less expensive than water bottles. I’ve never had a water cooler in my house!
It is getting very blowy out and my computer is getting some water on it so I think I will say goodnight and sweet dreams, I will try to do better on my blog, daily!
See you soon,
Ross and Kim
Monday, July 27, 2009
Sunday July 26th, 2009
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! It is 9:30 pm and I have my first wash in my new washing machine. It takes so long to fill (low water pressure) it might be done by morning, I have my fingers crossed. I still don’t have my dryer hooked up (gas) so Ross (he loves me dearly) bought me a line to hang my washing on along with clothes pins I picked up a few days ago. Only I know (besides you) that he will probably hang the wet clothes tomorrow! Just because. All the cycles are of course in Spanish so I needed to go onto a Spanish to English dictionary on the internet to see why my washing machine wasn’t doing what I wanted to do. I found out that wash (now I can’t find my list of words) so just believe me that I need the last 3 lights on to get a wash cycle done.
Wow it is very humid. We woke up to a killer thunderstorm (Ross is in his glory) at 6 this morning and probably watched thousands of lightning strikes and thunder boomers in about an hour. It calmed down enough so we went back to bed and woke up, do you believe this????? At noon. We are starting to become night owls as it is cooler in the evening, so we feel a little more like doing something.
We went to a bar along the main beach road (I have no idea what the name is) they do a lot of sports on the TV and almost all the walls, chairs and anything else you can write on are covered with people’s names and where they are from. Most are from Canada, Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer, Saskatchewan, Ontario BC, it is kinda cool, I wrote Ross and my name on the wall and then on the leg of a chair. We watched the Edmonton Indy, Go Edmonton, I had 2 margaritas, Ross had water, nacho chips with very hot salsa and taco’s, god they have good tacos here. We got very familiar with the owners, now they what us to come back tomorrow, we told them probably not as we have some unpacking to do. I saw a couple of iguana’s on some vines across the street, I said hi, they looked at me and had a question mark above their heads, (what the hell are you talking about?????). In the yard where the Iguana’s were there was a monkey in a large cage, too cool, but I hope the monkey is looked after ok.... I have to believe so!
After watching the race we walked up the road to the beach, and for the first time since we got here I got my feet wet. Wow, the water is soooooooooooo warm! We have now found our beach access so hopefully in the next few days we will be able to find the time and energy to spend a few hours on the beach (the humidity is sooooo high that your oomf level is way down, you just don’t want to move much!
We drove over to John and Christie’s to use their internet, we just sat outside their house as we didn’t want to bother their Sunday, and we did our internet stuff. Ross has the e-mail address for the star choice guy (apparently he is in Canada or the US picking up parts) so he can put our dish up so we have, wait for it, TV! Yeah!
I took a couple of boxes out of our trailer tonight, not much but it was a slow start. We would like to get it unpacked by Wednesday as Yuan, our furniture guy, will be coming over to bring me my new buffet and dresser and we might be selling him the trailer. He is definitely interested, 5,000 US (a little more that we paid for it) in cash and kind (Ross is hoping for his seadoo he wants to trade us).
I think that is all for tonight, I am going to go out and join Ross on the patio to watch and listen to the wonderful wildlife Bucerias has to offer,
Talk to you soon!
Ross and Kim
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! It is 9:30 pm and I have my first wash in my new washing machine. It takes so long to fill (low water pressure) it might be done by morning, I have my fingers crossed. I still don’t have my dryer hooked up (gas) so Ross (he loves me dearly) bought me a line to hang my washing on along with clothes pins I picked up a few days ago. Only I know (besides you) that he will probably hang the wet clothes tomorrow! Just because. All the cycles are of course in Spanish so I needed to go onto a Spanish to English dictionary on the internet to see why my washing machine wasn’t doing what I wanted to do. I found out that wash (now I can’t find my list of words) so just believe me that I need the last 3 lights on to get a wash cycle done.
Wow it is very humid. We woke up to a killer thunderstorm (Ross is in his glory) at 6 this morning and probably watched thousands of lightning strikes and thunder boomers in about an hour. It calmed down enough so we went back to bed and woke up, do you believe this????? At noon. We are starting to become night owls as it is cooler in the evening, so we feel a little more like doing something.
We went to a bar along the main beach road (I have no idea what the name is) they do a lot of sports on the TV and almost all the walls, chairs and anything else you can write on are covered with people’s names and where they are from. Most are from Canada, Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer, Saskatchewan, Ontario BC, it is kinda cool, I wrote Ross and my name on the wall and then on the leg of a chair. We watched the Edmonton Indy, Go Edmonton, I had 2 margaritas, Ross had water, nacho chips with very hot salsa and taco’s, god they have good tacos here. We got very familiar with the owners, now they what us to come back tomorrow, we told them probably not as we have some unpacking to do. I saw a couple of iguana’s on some vines across the street, I said hi, they looked at me and had a question mark above their heads, (what the hell are you talking about?????). In the yard where the Iguana’s were there was a monkey in a large cage, too cool, but I hope the monkey is looked after ok.... I have to believe so!
After watching the race we walked up the road to the beach, and for the first time since we got here I got my feet wet. Wow, the water is soooooooooooo warm! We have now found our beach access so hopefully in the next few days we will be able to find the time and energy to spend a few hours on the beach (the humidity is sooooo high that your oomf level is way down, you just don’t want to move much!
We drove over to John and Christie’s to use their internet, we just sat outside their house as we didn’t want to bother their Sunday, and we did our internet stuff. Ross has the e-mail address for the star choice guy (apparently he is in Canada or the US picking up parts) so he can put our dish up so we have, wait for it, TV! Yeah!
I took a couple of boxes out of our trailer tonight, not much but it was a slow start. We would like to get it unpacked by Wednesday as Yuan, our furniture guy, will be coming over to bring me my new buffet and dresser and we might be selling him the trailer. He is definitely interested, 5,000 US (a little more that we paid for it) in cash and kind (Ross is hoping for his seadoo he wants to trade us).
I think that is all for tonight, I am going to go out and join Ross on the patio to watch and listen to the wonderful wildlife Bucerias has to offer,
Talk to you soon!
Ross and Kim
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Saturday July 25th, 2009
Well it is another day in paradise. Hurray, we got the trailer in our yard, after 4 garbage truck guys helping us and tipping them 100.00 pesos (10.00) for helping get the trailer off Betsy and another 4 guys 100.00 pesos and 1 case of beer we got the trailer in the yard! Now, this is a 20’ trailer 8 ½’ wide going through a 9’ wide opening with about 1 ton in toung weight traveling on Dicks’s (a guy that lives close to us) ½ ton pickup trunk. It probably took them 3 hours to get the trailer off Betsy, onto the pickup truck (which broke a lot of bricks that we put underneath the hitch because it weights so much) and into our yard so we could close our gates. Yeah! That was a feat in itself!..
We went in to Puerto Vallarta to the Soriana mall to pick up some groceries (wine) and picked up a swimming pool the for the dogs, 2 army knives for Ross (he lost his, but found it later this afternoon on the car seat) and a bit of stuff we needed and got back around 4. Ross took off to Mega to find some other stuff we needed and came back with way too much.
We had BBQ hotdogs tonight with a salad and a fruit salad with watermelon and cantaloupe. John and Christie came over and had some fruit salad and Christie and I had some wine, John doesn’t drink. We chatted for a while and told a few stories and they left about an hour ago.
There is a Mexican party (going on down the street a birthday we think, cause they had balloons on their casa) we really can’t hear them unless we go outside which right now we are not (I am sitting in the kitchen cause the lights outside are not bright enough to type and actually look to see if I am typing the right stuff. I have had a bit of wine so don’t blame me if you are getting a bit lost with the story.)
We are going to a bar on the ocean that will open for Ross and me to watch the Indy race tomorrow. They are not normally open on Sundays but he will open for us to watch the race. Just wait until he finds out that Ross does not drink and I will only probably have 1 glass of wine! Christie and John might show up but probably not.
We are enjoying the lighting in the sky and the fireflies across the street from us, we can hear jungle noises all night with the crickets and the bugs. We can only hear the roosters when we are awake, thank god!
Talk to you soon
Ross and Kim
Well it is another day in paradise. Hurray, we got the trailer in our yard, after 4 garbage truck guys helping us and tipping them 100.00 pesos (10.00) for helping get the trailer off Betsy and another 4 guys 100.00 pesos and 1 case of beer we got the trailer in the yard! Now, this is a 20’ trailer 8 ½’ wide going through a 9’ wide opening with about 1 ton in toung weight traveling on Dicks’s (a guy that lives close to us) ½ ton pickup trunk. It probably took them 3 hours to get the trailer off Betsy, onto the pickup truck (which broke a lot of bricks that we put underneath the hitch because it weights so much) and into our yard so we could close our gates. Yeah! That was a feat in itself!..
We went in to Puerto Vallarta to the Soriana mall to pick up some groceries (wine) and picked up a swimming pool the for the dogs, 2 army knives for Ross (he lost his, but found it later this afternoon on the car seat) and a bit of stuff we needed and got back around 4. Ross took off to Mega to find some other stuff we needed and came back with way too much.
We had BBQ hotdogs tonight with a salad and a fruit salad with watermelon and cantaloupe. John and Christie came over and had some fruit salad and Christie and I had some wine, John doesn’t drink. We chatted for a while and told a few stories and they left about an hour ago.
There is a Mexican party (going on down the street a birthday we think, cause they had balloons on their casa) we really can’t hear them unless we go outside which right now we are not (I am sitting in the kitchen cause the lights outside are not bright enough to type and actually look to see if I am typing the right stuff. I have had a bit of wine so don’t blame me if you are getting a bit lost with the story.)
We are going to a bar on the ocean that will open for Ross and me to watch the Indy race tomorrow. They are not normally open on Sundays but he will open for us to watch the race. Just wait until he finds out that Ross does not drink and I will only probably have 1 glass of wine! Christie and John might show up but probably not.
We are enjoying the lighting in the sky and the fireflies across the street from us, we can hear jungle noises all night with the crickets and the bugs. We can only hear the roosters when we are awake, thank god!
Talk to you soon
Ross and Kim
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Friday July 24th, 2009
Another day in paradise! We ended up going out at about 8 for dinner last night, it was a wonderful dinner at a restaurant on the beach, we didn’t see the beach but we knew it was there. I had shrimp and Ross had pasta with shrimp, they gave us a piece of cake for dessert and 2 glasses of some type of alcohol stuff it was very good, but I had had some wine before and I just couldn’t finish Ross’s, I was a bit tipsy!
Just to let you know that the storm was awesome! The rain came down in sheets and we had to keep scraping the rain off with a squeegee thingy. The lightning was awesome and the thunder rattling. We ended up losing power for a while and then it went to a brown out, the fans were turning very slowly, and the air conditioner wasn’t working. The power finally came on after, thank goodness, didn’t want the fridge to be out for too long!
We woke up at around 11am and had coffee outside on the patio, this is starting to look like a habit, and got going around 1ish. Ross took off to Mega to do a bit of shopping and I stayed home and putzed. We went over to John and Christie’s to use their phone and internet and stayed a very long time, we might have overstayed our welcome! Not, they love us, right guys?
We took off to Wal-Mart to do a bit of shopping and came home to have supper. (Ross had promised me McD’s but they only have a small area in Wal-Mart that sells ice cream, he is a big spender) We came home with salad fixings so I think I will have a salad, Ross made himself a peanut butter sandwich to tide him over until salad. We have everything soaking in an antibacterial wash, and I think it is just about ready, so I’m gonna say bye bye for now.
Ps......we are trying to find someone with a hitch on a truck so we can move our trailer with all our stuff into the yard so we can start unpacking.
Take care of now
Ross and Kim
Another day in paradise! We ended up going out at about 8 for dinner last night, it was a wonderful dinner at a restaurant on the beach, we didn’t see the beach but we knew it was there. I had shrimp and Ross had pasta with shrimp, they gave us a piece of cake for dessert and 2 glasses of some type of alcohol stuff it was very good, but I had had some wine before and I just couldn’t finish Ross’s, I was a bit tipsy!
Just to let you know that the storm was awesome! The rain came down in sheets and we had to keep scraping the rain off with a squeegee thingy. The lightning was awesome and the thunder rattling. We ended up losing power for a while and then it went to a brown out, the fans were turning very slowly, and the air conditioner wasn’t working. The power finally came on after, thank goodness, didn’t want the fridge to be out for too long!
We woke up at around 11am and had coffee outside on the patio, this is starting to look like a habit, and got going around 1ish. Ross took off to Mega to do a bit of shopping and I stayed home and putzed. We went over to John and Christie’s to use their phone and internet and stayed a very long time, we might have overstayed our welcome! Not, they love us, right guys?
We took off to Wal-Mart to do a bit of shopping and came home to have supper. (Ross had promised me McD’s but they only have a small area in Wal-Mart that sells ice cream, he is a big spender) We came home with salad fixings so I think I will have a salad, Ross made himself a peanut butter sandwich to tide him over until salad. We have everything soaking in an antibacterial wash, and I think it is just about ready, so I’m gonna say bye bye for now.
Ps......we are trying to find someone with a hitch on a truck so we can move our trailer with all our stuff into the yard so we can start unpacking.
Take care of now
Ross and Kim
Friday, July 24, 2009
Thursday July 23rd, 2009
Hola everyone, our first day waking up in our casa. I am typing this a bit early cause we are going to go over to John and Christie’s to use their internet and then we are going out for dinner on the Ocean, today is our 14th anniversary!
I started today about 4 am (cause I woke up and couldn’t go back to sleep) and stepped outside on our patio and sat watching the cats kill bugs. What a wonderful site. We left the bedroom door open for the cats to come and go (we need to buy a cat door) and our air conditioner was trying to cool the whole house down, it is not that big! So needless to say it was very hot last night. I was definitely cooler out on the patio.
We woke up at about 11ish and sat outside on the patio having our very hot coffee on a very hot morning. We might have to consider our options. (Coffee wise) (maybe some chilled orange juice?) We are moving very slow here is hotsville...........we showered and decided to get some more plants from Home Depot and before that we visited Yuan our furniture guy to order a long dresser and mirror and another buffet because we need places to put things. Our stuff should be ready by next Wednesday (the day Lily is coming in to clean my house for ($5.00 hour) had to rub that in, and we are hoping that we can get our kitchen table in the front door (Yuan thinks so, or he will build us a new one that will fit (we love Mexicans, they are so accommodating and eager to please and help).....sorry, I took a minute to raise my arms to let the cool air fan my sweaty arm pits as we are having a thunder and rain storm right now, we are sitting under our patio roof enjoying the coolness!
Ross talked to Yuan in regards to buying our trailer and it turns out Yuan needs one. We are negotiating some furniture and cash and maybe a Yamaha wave runner seadoo! Ross is excited.
I am getting waves of rain onto my computer now, so I think I will say adios to all you amigos and amigas for now, I am going to go watch the storm and hopefully we will be able to have dinner on the beach when it is over. Or we will end up having fruit or yogurt and left over chicken for supper tonite!
Talk to you soon!
Ross and Kim
Hola everyone, our first day waking up in our casa. I am typing this a bit early cause we are going to go over to John and Christie’s to use their internet and then we are going out for dinner on the Ocean, today is our 14th anniversary!
I started today about 4 am (cause I woke up and couldn’t go back to sleep) and stepped outside on our patio and sat watching the cats kill bugs. What a wonderful site. We left the bedroom door open for the cats to come and go (we need to buy a cat door) and our air conditioner was trying to cool the whole house down, it is not that big! So needless to say it was very hot last night. I was definitely cooler out on the patio.
We woke up at about 11ish and sat outside on the patio having our very hot coffee on a very hot morning. We might have to consider our options. (Coffee wise) (maybe some chilled orange juice?) We are moving very slow here is hotsville...........we showered and decided to get some more plants from Home Depot and before that we visited Yuan our furniture guy to order a long dresser and mirror and another buffet because we need places to put things. Our stuff should be ready by next Wednesday (the day Lily is coming in to clean my house for ($5.00 hour) had to rub that in, and we are hoping that we can get our kitchen table in the front door (Yuan thinks so, or he will build us a new one that will fit (we love Mexicans, they are so accommodating and eager to please and help).....sorry, I took a minute to raise my arms to let the cool air fan my sweaty arm pits as we are having a thunder and rain storm right now, we are sitting under our patio roof enjoying the coolness!
Ross talked to Yuan in regards to buying our trailer and it turns out Yuan needs one. We are negotiating some furniture and cash and maybe a Yamaha wave runner seadoo! Ross is excited.
I am getting waves of rain onto my computer now, so I think I will say adios to all you amigos and amigas for now, I am going to go watch the storm and hopefully we will be able to have dinner on the beach when it is over. Or we will end up having fruit or yogurt and left over chicken for supper tonite!
Talk to you soon!
Ross and Kim
Wednesday July 22nd, 2009
Hi all,
Our first full day in our new home and we are in seventh heaven. We shopped for cleaning supplies this morning and met John and Christie over at Mega (grocery store) with Lily, our new maid. We stopped by the store we purchased our appliances from and we got a pillow top king mattress for 350.00 and we also bought a rocking chair for me for about 120.00, it is gorgeous!
We brought Lily home ( she is sooooooooooooo sweet, she is married and maybe is 25??) she cleaned a very dusty house to perfection! We have actually moved into the house today because it is so nice and clean!
We left Lily to go to Costco for sheets and pillows and a blanket for our new king mattress and bought a few plants too. (we also stopped and Ross got a slice of pepperoni pizza and I had a hot dog both with pop, it is very hot and humid here right now. I am writing this in our back yard and seeing some grey clouds overhead, hopefully we will get some rail to cool us off. We took a new way home and got lost in a Mexican neighbourhood for about ¾ of an hour and finally found our way to home depot (it’s on the 200 hiway to home) so of course Ross went in to see if he could get some new locks for our front gate (why he got a cart will be revelled later) I stayed in the car because we couldn’t put the top up because we had our plants and bedding in the back seat. He came out with another plant, some other stuff, but they didn’t have any locks! We drove really carefully home as to not blow too many leaves off the plants. Between Jalisco state (Puerto Vallarta) and Nayarit state (Bucerias) there is a stop point where they (the gun guys) check you over to see if they think you are carrying drugs ( the hiway 200 is the hiway of drugs), it was really backed up (it was about 4pm) and soooo slow, but all of a sudden it started to move, I think they decided to let some cars through as it was getting really backed up, and super muggy and hot! We finally got home and Lily had done such a great job, she even did the windows, she stayed a little longer then Ross drove her to the highway so she could take a bus home, not of course until I had her coming every Wednesday from now on to help clean ( she charges 50 pesos an hour which is 5.00).
Ross had gone to Mega (the grocery store) because he can’t find the grape juice we bought before and when he gets back I think we will go find something to eat. We have justified eating out because we don’t have anything good to eat in the house as yet and a person needs to eat!
The clouds seem to be moving away.................we only saw a bit of lightning last night and a bit of rain.......where is the rainy season? I know I am going to eat my words one day, but it would be a relief if it rained and cooled down a bit, I’m not complaining mind you, but I do need to wipe my brow from sweat now and again so it doesn’t go into my eyes, it stings because sweat is salty!
The dogs are settled in, if very panty! Shadow is doing well in the house, Tigger and Sunshine are having a problem with the move. They are kinda hiding outside, it won’t be long until they are settled.
Talk to you soon from paradise,
Ross and Kim
Hi all,
Our first full day in our new home and we are in seventh heaven. We shopped for cleaning supplies this morning and met John and Christie over at Mega (grocery store) with Lily, our new maid. We stopped by the store we purchased our appliances from and we got a pillow top king mattress for 350.00 and we also bought a rocking chair for me for about 120.00, it is gorgeous!
We brought Lily home ( she is sooooooooooooo sweet, she is married and maybe is 25??) she cleaned a very dusty house to perfection! We have actually moved into the house today because it is so nice and clean!
We left Lily to go to Costco for sheets and pillows and a blanket for our new king mattress and bought a few plants too. (we also stopped and Ross got a slice of pepperoni pizza and I had a hot dog both with pop, it is very hot and humid here right now. I am writing this in our back yard and seeing some grey clouds overhead, hopefully we will get some rail to cool us off. We took a new way home and got lost in a Mexican neighbourhood for about ¾ of an hour and finally found our way to home depot (it’s on the 200 hiway to home) so of course Ross went in to see if he could get some new locks for our front gate (why he got a cart will be revelled later) I stayed in the car because we couldn’t put the top up because we had our plants and bedding in the back seat. He came out with another plant, some other stuff, but they didn’t have any locks! We drove really carefully home as to not blow too many leaves off the plants. Between Jalisco state (Puerto Vallarta) and Nayarit state (Bucerias) there is a stop point where they (the gun guys) check you over to see if they think you are carrying drugs ( the hiway 200 is the hiway of drugs), it was really backed up (it was about 4pm) and soooo slow, but all of a sudden it started to move, I think they decided to let some cars through as it was getting really backed up, and super muggy and hot! We finally got home and Lily had done such a great job, she even did the windows, she stayed a little longer then Ross drove her to the highway so she could take a bus home, not of course until I had her coming every Wednesday from now on to help clean ( she charges 50 pesos an hour which is 5.00).
Ross had gone to Mega (the grocery store) because he can’t find the grape juice we bought before and when he gets back I think we will go find something to eat. We have justified eating out because we don’t have anything good to eat in the house as yet and a person needs to eat!
The clouds seem to be moving away.................we only saw a bit of lightning last night and a bit of rain.......where is the rainy season? I know I am going to eat my words one day, but it would be a relief if it rained and cooled down a bit, I’m not complaining mind you, but I do need to wipe my brow from sweat now and again so it doesn’t go into my eyes, it stings because sweat is salty!
The dogs are settled in, if very panty! Shadow is doing well in the house, Tigger and Sunshine are having a problem with the move. They are kinda hiding outside, it won’t be long until they are settled.
Talk to you soon from paradise,
Ross and Kim
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Tuesday July 21, 2009
We have made it, hurray! We spent last night at the side of the road, everything is good. We started at about 9:30 this morning, had a bit of a problem with Ross’s breaks on Betsy....they became really mushy about one hour into our journey home and the tires on the trailer started smoking, breaks are ok and Ross backed off on the breaks for the trailer so all is good. The highway to home is all mountain roads. We arrived here at 1:15 and went right over to Christy and John’s house to say hi.
We got to the house, it is very dirty but all of our furniture is in there, wow, so cool! I took all the wrapping off the furniture and Lily the maid is coming in tomorrow afternoon to clean, then we can really move in. Ross took a few things out of the trailer, silly boy, we want to make sure the house is clean before we really move in. However his V drums are now in our living room.
We are there right now (8:49pm) using their internet! We got Betsy and the trailer to the house, the roads were nasty, the rainy season really wrecks the roads, but we made it. We drove off to Puerto Vallarta for dinner at the Stockade (in the Livermore mall) and then we went to Walmart to pick up a mirror for Betsy and we ended up picking up a table for outside.
It is rainy and windy right now, we are really tired, need to go home to have a snooze.
Talk to you soon,
Ross and Kim
We have made it, hurray! We spent last night at the side of the road, everything is good. We started at about 9:30 this morning, had a bit of a problem with Ross’s breaks on Betsy....they became really mushy about one hour into our journey home and the tires on the trailer started smoking, breaks are ok and Ross backed off on the breaks for the trailer so all is good. The highway to home is all mountain roads. We arrived here at 1:15 and went right over to Christy and John’s house to say hi.
We got to the house, it is very dirty but all of our furniture is in there, wow, so cool! I took all the wrapping off the furniture and Lily the maid is coming in tomorrow afternoon to clean, then we can really move in. Ross took a few things out of the trailer, silly boy, we want to make sure the house is clean before we really move in. However his V drums are now in our living room.
We are there right now (8:49pm) using their internet! We got Betsy and the trailer to the house, the roads were nasty, the rainy season really wrecks the roads, but we made it. We drove off to Puerto Vallarta for dinner at the Stockade (in the Livermore mall) and then we went to Walmart to pick up a mirror for Betsy and we ended up picking up a table for outside.
It is rainy and windy right now, we are really tired, need to go home to have a snooze.
Talk to you soon,
Ross and Kim
Monday July 20th, 2009
Hola everyone, we are parked on the 200 ( the highway to home) at a small pull out as it is way too dark to drive this curvy two lane very narrow highway. We are around 100 kms away from home; it is 8:00 our time 9:00 mountain daylight time and Ross is trying to get the satellite working! He never changes, even in Mexico. We are so excited to be so close.
The temp in here right now is 78C which I think is the lowest we have seen since the Grand Canyon. There were a lot of clouds as if we are going to have a rain storm, Ross hopes so.
We traveled through Culiacan and Mazatlan, (this is where Ross got too close to a bus and brushed the mirror of Betsy with the bus, we now need to get a new mirror). This was where we thought we would stay the night but it was so crowded and the streets so narrow, we decided to keep going. We went into Tepic, thinking we could hit a Soriana (a grocery store) to buy a new mirror for Betsy, but the roads again we so narrow that we needed to turn back, Ross pulled a Uee in front of a Soriana, he had realized too late that there was as sign over the entrance way that he would have not been able to go under , so instead of turning left in to the parking lot he had to turn around, boy was he lucky, there was just enough room for him to turn around, I of course followed him, with horns blaring! O well, they will never see us again, probably, so who cares. We started back to where we started from with the turn to highway 200 to go to Bucerias. We turned the first time a little early (road signs are not great) and ended up in a Pemex Gas station, which was a good thing it paralleled the 200 cause we could turn right onto the road. Now, only in Mexico, can you be on a major highway and go through a town that the roads are so narrow only Betsy could get through with cars parked on the side of the road. It looked like we had taken a wrong turn, but there were no turns on the road and Ross was following a Semi! So we went through these narrow streets, enjoying the sound, music and people watching!
We got through the toll, ( boy are these expensive, I think the most I had to pay was 780 pesos (7.80) Ross paid 560 and we had to go through 5 of these today and probably the same amount yesterday) and started on this soooooooooooooooo narrow two lane highway that the back wheels on the trailer kept going off the road. (The white line is on the edge of the pavement, then a 1 foot drop onto forest). So now we are stopped for the night and hoping we are OK here, just outside a little town and with a mobile home across the highway with some Mexicans hanging around a pickup truck. We have learned that just about all Mexicans are more friendly and honourable than us North Americans, so we feel pretty safe, although I’m sure the media types would freak and say don’t EVER stay on the side of the road in Mexico. Well, we are, so there! Home tomorrow!
Talk to you from home!
Ross and Kim
Hola everyone, we are parked on the 200 ( the highway to home) at a small pull out as it is way too dark to drive this curvy two lane very narrow highway. We are around 100 kms away from home; it is 8:00 our time 9:00 mountain daylight time and Ross is trying to get the satellite working! He never changes, even in Mexico. We are so excited to be so close.
The temp in here right now is 78C which I think is the lowest we have seen since the Grand Canyon. There were a lot of clouds as if we are going to have a rain storm, Ross hopes so.
We traveled through Culiacan and Mazatlan, (this is where Ross got too close to a bus and brushed the mirror of Betsy with the bus, we now need to get a new mirror). This was where we thought we would stay the night but it was so crowded and the streets so narrow, we decided to keep going. We went into Tepic, thinking we could hit a Soriana (a grocery store) to buy a new mirror for Betsy, but the roads again we so narrow that we needed to turn back, Ross pulled a Uee in front of a Soriana, he had realized too late that there was as sign over the entrance way that he would have not been able to go under , so instead of turning left in to the parking lot he had to turn around, boy was he lucky, there was just enough room for him to turn around, I of course followed him, with horns blaring! O well, they will never see us again, probably, so who cares. We started back to where we started from with the turn to highway 200 to go to Bucerias. We turned the first time a little early (road signs are not great) and ended up in a Pemex Gas station, which was a good thing it paralleled the 200 cause we could turn right onto the road. Now, only in Mexico, can you be on a major highway and go through a town that the roads are so narrow only Betsy could get through with cars parked on the side of the road. It looked like we had taken a wrong turn, but there were no turns on the road and Ross was following a Semi! So we went through these narrow streets, enjoying the sound, music and people watching!
We got through the toll, ( boy are these expensive, I think the most I had to pay was 780 pesos (7.80) Ross paid 560 and we had to go through 5 of these today and probably the same amount yesterday) and started on this soooooooooooooooo narrow two lane highway that the back wheels on the trailer kept going off the road. (The white line is on the edge of the pavement, then a 1 foot drop onto forest). So now we are stopped for the night and hoping we are OK here, just outside a little town and with a mobile home across the highway with some Mexicans hanging around a pickup truck. We have learned that just about all Mexicans are more friendly and honourable than us North Americans, so we feel pretty safe, although I’m sure the media types would freak and say don’t EVER stay on the side of the road in Mexico. Well, we are, so there! Home tomorrow!
Talk to you from home!
Ross and Kim
Sunday July 19th, 2009
Wow...............here we sit at a Pemex Gas Station (gov’t owned, not any more choices) that is supposed to have showers. It is 7:50 (I think) we are confused as to which state is on daylight savings time. The state right across the border is Senora state, the state we are in right now is Sinoloa and we are on Mtn standard time. The next state is Nayarit (which is ours) We started out this morning in the city of Hermosillo, went through Ciudad Obregon, Los Mochis (we looked for a motel here, we have given up on the RV parks, all they are is a big lot with power, but they don’t look very secure) but we couldn’t find anything, so, as per what we do............we carried on. By the way we have not seen one gun guy anywhere! Once we arrived in Sinoloa state the roads were much better so Ross could actually breathe and drive (the roads had good pavement (most of the time) but very narrow with no shoulders in the other state. We tried to get to Culiacan but as the sun set, we decided that the gas station would be a great place to dry dock!
We are about 70 kms from Culiacan, will go through Mazatlan, Tuxpan, Tepic, then home. We could probably drive to our house tomorrow, but we don’t want to get there in the dark, so I think we might stay at Tepic and then drive to home the next day.
I am so excited to see my house and my furniture (we haven’t seen it yet, stained and stuff)
Well I know that we will not post this for a bit so I will bid you all adieu until we meet again. Just to let you know that not only are the roads better in this state the foliage is much greener (as we are soooooo close to the ocean, but haven’t seen it yet!) It is a lot more humid tonight than it was last night, we found out that the high for Hermosillo was to be 112F. We have seen a lot of standing water because, I assume, from the rains (we are in the rainy season) but it has been dry for driving. I guess we will see what happens tomorrow. It is, as they say, another day!
See you in Bucerias!
Ross and Kim
Wow...............here we sit at a Pemex Gas Station (gov’t owned, not any more choices) that is supposed to have showers. It is 7:50 (I think) we are confused as to which state is on daylight savings time. The state right across the border is Senora state, the state we are in right now is Sinoloa and we are on Mtn standard time. The next state is Nayarit (which is ours) We started out this morning in the city of Hermosillo, went through Ciudad Obregon, Los Mochis (we looked for a motel here, we have given up on the RV parks, all they are is a big lot with power, but they don’t look very secure) but we couldn’t find anything, so, as per what we do............we carried on. By the way we have not seen one gun guy anywhere! Once we arrived in Sinoloa state the roads were much better so Ross could actually breathe and drive (the roads had good pavement (most of the time) but very narrow with no shoulders in the other state. We tried to get to Culiacan but as the sun set, we decided that the gas station would be a great place to dry dock!
We are about 70 kms from Culiacan, will go through Mazatlan, Tuxpan, Tepic, then home. We could probably drive to our house tomorrow, but we don’t want to get there in the dark, so I think we might stay at Tepic and then drive to home the next day.
I am so excited to see my house and my furniture (we haven’t seen it yet, stained and stuff)
Well I know that we will not post this for a bit so I will bid you all adieu until we meet again. Just to let you know that not only are the roads better in this state the foliage is much greener (as we are soooooo close to the ocean, but haven’t seen it yet!) It is a lot more humid tonight than it was last night, we found out that the high for Hermosillo was to be 112F. We have seen a lot of standing water because, I assume, from the rains (we are in the rainy season) but it has been dry for driving. I guess we will see what happens tomorrow. It is, as they say, another day!
See you in Bucerias!
Ross and Kim
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Saturday July 18th, 2009
Howdie Ho Neighbours.
You would think that just one day we could not have any troubles....I will start with last night. Ross woke me up at about 1:30 am to inform me that half the bus is without power! Well...............we looked in the manual and there is an optional box located above the door that will probably manage the power, but no, we did not have it. We stayed awake a bit longer and realized that we could do nothing until the morning. The only roof air we had was in the living room and no power anywhere else. I had mentioned that maybe we blew a breaker and then I thought that maybe the heat did something and when it cooled off everything would work again. We fell off onto a worried sleep and I woke up about 4am watching the sun rise wondering when to wake Ross to see if the Genset would work again, afraid that when we tried it wouldn’t! Well I woke him up at about 6am but it was way too early. We woke again at 8 and checked the genset and one of the breakers had popped because we put too much strain on the system, and it was too hot. When we had the new air conditioner plugged in the last time we were on the Circus Circus power supply.
So, we showered at the park and took off to Wally world to pick up a few supplies we need before we entered Mexico.
We got to the border and it seemed our paperwork was in order but they wanted $350.00 for the fees. We didn’t have it in cash and they would not take a credit card. The border guard and I went to the US border in his car so I could walk across the border to an ATM to get the money. Once at the border I realized that I had forgotten my passport, and the US border guard would not let me through. So we waited at the border for about ½ hour for our paperwork to be completed on their end and got back to Betsy. I then had 1 hour to drive to the US border, go across, get $350.00 and come back because the border closes at 2pm on Friday’s. So off I drive to the US border, get into the slowest lane to cross, got to the guard and he spend 10 minutes with me, after me telling him I only had a half an hour to get to the Mexican border to cross. Heh (sorry I needed to breathe)..............I drove about a mile to the first ATM and it was not working (it’s a good think I forgot my passport cause I would never have made the trek on foot), so I drove a little bit more and the next place the ATM was down, ok so not to bore you, after going to 4 more ATM’s (including a motel) I ended up back in Nogales at the Chase Manhattan bank to withdraw the money. Once I parked there was 3 people ahead of me, I very nicely asked if I could but in line and she said si, I love the Mexicans! Back to the border I go, I think I got up to 160 Km up the hill to the Mexican customs, which closed 8 minutes ago, to make a long story short, we finally met up, gave David his $350.00 and took off to get out vehicle permits at 21 Km station.
We waited in line for our FM3’s to be stamped and waited in another line to get our permit. While I stood in line Ross had to get all our papers copied for their files. We got to the ticket window and found out that they did not like the fax copy of the registration for the car so I had to go to the office to have them approve it. After showing him the original insurance card he signed off on it and I needed to get a copy of it. Back to the permit window I go, Ross is now done and I wait for my vehicle permit. All is in order so guess what.................we left.
We drove about 150 kms and we had to stop for a bunch of guys with machine guns wanting to know what we had in our car and trailer. They looked in the RV and wanted to look into the trailer. Just to let you know that they took some bolt cutters to the fastener that customs had put on the trailer to look inside. Once they looked, their mouths dropped open and they didn’t know what to do, it was so packed. In the mean time they checked out the car, had me open the trunk and asked how much money my vacuum cleaner was worth (we are storing it in, of course, the trunk of the car) and how much was the box that we had in the trunk also (it had the power conditioner/regulator in it), I told him 200.00 for the vacuum and 100.00 for what was in the box. He seemed ok with this. In the mean time, they were commenting on Ross’s shoes, (they liked them). So suffice it to say we passed the inspection. (Ross and I talked about this tonight and figured that they were looking for drug runners and they were really looking out for us so we were not upset in the least (since we didn’t have any drugs on us)
After this it was clear sailing, there are several toll roads we are taking they are asking for 19.00 pesos for one and 65.00 for the second one. There were also several topes (speed bumps) where if you go faster than 5 kms you will shake the car or in our case the RV to shreds, so you go very slow through some of the towns along the way, sometimes 3 topes per town. While you are almost stopped going through the topas they try to sell you nuts and stuff. You just shake your head no and they go onto the next car.
The rest of the trip went uneventful, except for when we got to Hermosillo, Mx (Which is the capital of the state of Senora) (1/2 million people) we tried to get an RV spot at this one place but there weren’t any showers or anything so we decided we would rent a room at a motel, park in the parking lot and use the shower in the morning. We stopped at the Holiday Inn but they wouldn’t let us park the motor home so we went across the street and we are staying at a wonderful motel, with a wonderful restaurant (where the people actually spoke English). While Ross was backing up to park in the lot we hit a tree with the motor home, put a small dent in the top, but got parked. Here we sit right now. I had enchiladas for supper and Ross had a BLT. We are trying to get comfy and have a really good sleep tonight so we can travel farther into Mexico going to our Casa in Bucerias!
I don’t know how much sleep we will have as we are parked right alongside the highway!
We are so excited on what is going to happen tomorrow, stay tuned!
A very tired
Ross and Kim
Ps the animals are doing great! (another story in that, but too tired to explain!)
Howdie Ho Neighbours.
You would think that just one day we could not have any troubles....I will start with last night. Ross woke me up at about 1:30 am to inform me that half the bus is without power! Well...............we looked in the manual and there is an optional box located above the door that will probably manage the power, but no, we did not have it. We stayed awake a bit longer and realized that we could do nothing until the morning. The only roof air we had was in the living room and no power anywhere else. I had mentioned that maybe we blew a breaker and then I thought that maybe the heat did something and when it cooled off everything would work again. We fell off onto a worried sleep and I woke up about 4am watching the sun rise wondering when to wake Ross to see if the Genset would work again, afraid that when we tried it wouldn’t! Well I woke him up at about 6am but it was way too early. We woke again at 8 and checked the genset and one of the breakers had popped because we put too much strain on the system, and it was too hot. When we had the new air conditioner plugged in the last time we were on the Circus Circus power supply.
So, we showered at the park and took off to Wally world to pick up a few supplies we need before we entered Mexico.
We got to the border and it seemed our paperwork was in order but they wanted $350.00 for the fees. We didn’t have it in cash and they would not take a credit card. The border guard and I went to the US border in his car so I could walk across the border to an ATM to get the money. Once at the border I realized that I had forgotten my passport, and the US border guard would not let me through. So we waited at the border for about ½ hour for our paperwork to be completed on their end and got back to Betsy. I then had 1 hour to drive to the US border, go across, get $350.00 and come back because the border closes at 2pm on Friday’s. So off I drive to the US border, get into the slowest lane to cross, got to the guard and he spend 10 minutes with me, after me telling him I only had a half an hour to get to the Mexican border to cross. Heh (sorry I needed to breathe)..............I drove about a mile to the first ATM and it was not working (it’s a good think I forgot my passport cause I would never have made the trek on foot), so I drove a little bit more and the next place the ATM was down, ok so not to bore you, after going to 4 more ATM’s (including a motel) I ended up back in Nogales at the Chase Manhattan bank to withdraw the money. Once I parked there was 3 people ahead of me, I very nicely asked if I could but in line and she said si, I love the Mexicans! Back to the border I go, I think I got up to 160 Km up the hill to the Mexican customs, which closed 8 minutes ago, to make a long story short, we finally met up, gave David his $350.00 and took off to get out vehicle permits at 21 Km station.
We waited in line for our FM3’s to be stamped and waited in another line to get our permit. While I stood in line Ross had to get all our papers copied for their files. We got to the ticket window and found out that they did not like the fax copy of the registration for the car so I had to go to the office to have them approve it. After showing him the original insurance card he signed off on it and I needed to get a copy of it. Back to the permit window I go, Ross is now done and I wait for my vehicle permit. All is in order so guess what.................we left.
We drove about 150 kms and we had to stop for a bunch of guys with machine guns wanting to know what we had in our car and trailer. They looked in the RV and wanted to look into the trailer. Just to let you know that they took some bolt cutters to the fastener that customs had put on the trailer to look inside. Once they looked, their mouths dropped open and they didn’t know what to do, it was so packed. In the mean time they checked out the car, had me open the trunk and asked how much money my vacuum cleaner was worth (we are storing it in, of course, the trunk of the car) and how much was the box that we had in the trunk also (it had the power conditioner/regulator in it), I told him 200.00 for the vacuum and 100.00 for what was in the box. He seemed ok with this. In the mean time, they were commenting on Ross’s shoes, (they liked them). So suffice it to say we passed the inspection. (Ross and I talked about this tonight and figured that they were looking for drug runners and they were really looking out for us so we were not upset in the least (since we didn’t have any drugs on us)
After this it was clear sailing, there are several toll roads we are taking they are asking for 19.00 pesos for one and 65.00 for the second one. There were also several topes (speed bumps) where if you go faster than 5 kms you will shake the car or in our case the RV to shreds, so you go very slow through some of the towns along the way, sometimes 3 topes per town. While you are almost stopped going through the topas they try to sell you nuts and stuff. You just shake your head no and they go onto the next car.
The rest of the trip went uneventful, except for when we got to Hermosillo, Mx (Which is the capital of the state of Senora) (1/2 million people) we tried to get an RV spot at this one place but there weren’t any showers or anything so we decided we would rent a room at a motel, park in the parking lot and use the shower in the morning. We stopped at the Holiday Inn but they wouldn’t let us park the motor home so we went across the street and we are staying at a wonderful motel, with a wonderful restaurant (where the people actually spoke English). While Ross was backing up to park in the lot we hit a tree with the motor home, put a small dent in the top, but got parked. Here we sit right now. I had enchiladas for supper and Ross had a BLT. We are trying to get comfy and have a really good sleep tonight so we can travel farther into Mexico going to our Casa in Bucerias!
I don’t know how much sleep we will have as we are parked right alongside the highway!
We are so excited on what is going to happen tomorrow, stay tuned!
A very tired
Ross and Kim
Ps the animals are doing great! (another story in that, but too tired to explain!)
Friday July 17th, 2009
Hi from Nogales, Arizona. We drove from Williams, AZ to Phoenix, and the temp was 43+C, so we drove through the city (of cement) and drove to Tucson, AZ (we past about 5 Cracker Barrel Restaurants which I wanted to stop at one, but it was never convenient or we were full from Mac D’s , yuck!), we were going to stop at Almado at a RV park, but ended up in Nogales on the Mexican border. We stopped at one RV place and it didn’t look great but while we were there we noticed Sanborn Insurance Agency (which Ross recognized from the internet). So we decided to stop there to get our Mexican insurance.
Well...........................................as we were getting our paperwork in order, we noticed that Kim (Ross`s words) did not have the registration for the Sunfire, which she had given to Ross to put in with the insurance, which he had, however he claims he never had the registration papers......(he says he never had the registration papers)! Anyway.....we phoned the registration office in Edmonton Centre where Ross had the phone number to and got a hold of the supervisor (at 5:10 when they close at 5:30) and told them that we needed the registration papers to cross the Mexican border tomorrow (Saturday) and if she could fax us a copy. She took pity on us and agreed to fax us a copy of the registration on condition that we fax her at the same time an authorization for my daughter Pam....whom I haven`t called yet.....to go to their office on Monday to sign for the already faxed registration form, (which the supervisor has never done before in her life) because she felt sorry for us, and said to me that if she was in the same predicament as we are she would want someone to do for her! So I now have the faxed registration form for the Sunfire. We paid $880.00 for the RV for a year and the car was$330.00, compared with $1800.00 for the RV in Canada and about $600.00 for the car. Wow! What a difference!
As we were talking to her she phoned an RV park to see if they had any room for us, they said yes but we might have to drop the trailer in the parking lot to get into a spot. We followed her instructions on how to get to the park and drove about 20 miles and found the RV park (which is on a lake (probably a reservoir)), we drove around looking for a large spot to park and couldn`t find one, so decided to drop the trailer. Well.................easier said than done. We couldn`t get the trailer hitch to come off the RV so I drove up to the office and asked if we could just stay in the boat parking for the night and he said yes. So........................we tried to get as level as possible (we are on a slant still) and went to pull out the living room slide and guess what? It wouldn’t slide out! Neither would the bedroom slide. Oh my! So if all else fails, read the manual.........It stated that the panel for the fuses for the slide outs are on the roadside panel, so we got out to find the fuses and after a bit found them and unhooked the cover of the panel (after pulling a shit load of stuff out of the way). We found the ignition bypass fuse and pulled it out to see if it was burned out and it looked like it was so we looked to see if we could find another fuse to replace it. Well, when we pulled the fuse out I noticed that when I opened the door the steps stayed out (which they weren’t before) so I thought what they heck let’s try the slide out..................well low and behold the living room slide came out along with the bedroom slide. However, when we put the cover back on the fuse box, the steps came in and will not stay out, which they should if we turn them off. Well, we now have slideage, both living room and bedroom, so we are spending the night in a parking lot at a small lake in Arizona on the border of Mexico with no front TV (cause I think it is because we do not have the fuse in) but the bedroom TV is working. We are not hooked into any power, because of course (we are in a parking lot) but have the genset on so we have air conditioning because it is still very hot outside. We’re supposed to shut the genset off at 9PM but I think we’ll keep it on since we’re in the friggin’ parking lot with no power or water or even a picnic table for cry’in out loud! We’ll see if they make us shut it off....
We took the dogs for a walk along the lake (reservoir) and Bigdog went into the water and lied down (just like at the lake) and had a smile on his face. He even had a drink and looked at us saying, wow, this even tastes like the lake, not that stupid water we ran in a while ago. (This was the ocean along the pacific coast in April). I don’t think he has been that cool for a very long time. Gracie wouldn’t go into the water but she had fun getting tangled on the picnic table.
Ross is now watching TV in the bedroom, which I am going to join him right away and I have been typing on the table in our wonderful kitchen area. Ross just informed me that the temp in here is 86C, it has cooled down considerably, he also left and just let me know that there is spectacular lightning off to the west!
Tomorrow is the crossing of the Mexican border, we are doing well.
PEACE, love and hugs
Ross and Kim
PS..................WOOOO HOOOOOO! (THAT’S ME, Ross talk’in)
Hi from Nogales, Arizona. We drove from Williams, AZ to Phoenix, and the temp was 43+C, so we drove through the city (of cement) and drove to Tucson, AZ (we past about 5 Cracker Barrel Restaurants which I wanted to stop at one, but it was never convenient or we were full from Mac D’s , yuck!), we were going to stop at Almado at a RV park, but ended up in Nogales on the Mexican border. We stopped at one RV place and it didn’t look great but while we were there we noticed Sanborn Insurance Agency (which Ross recognized from the internet). So we decided to stop there to get our Mexican insurance.
Well...........................................as we were getting our paperwork in order, we noticed that Kim (Ross`s words) did not have the registration for the Sunfire, which she had given to Ross to put in with the insurance, which he had, however he claims he never had the registration papers......(he says he never had the registration papers)! Anyway.....we phoned the registration office in Edmonton Centre where Ross had the phone number to and got a hold of the supervisor (at 5:10 when they close at 5:30) and told them that we needed the registration papers to cross the Mexican border tomorrow (Saturday) and if she could fax us a copy. She took pity on us and agreed to fax us a copy of the registration on condition that we fax her at the same time an authorization for my daughter Pam....whom I haven`t called yet.....to go to their office on Monday to sign for the already faxed registration form, (which the supervisor has never done before in her life) because she felt sorry for us, and said to me that if she was in the same predicament as we are she would want someone to do for her! So I now have the faxed registration form for the Sunfire. We paid $880.00 for the RV for a year and the car was$330.00, compared with $1800.00 for the RV in Canada and about $600.00 for the car. Wow! What a difference!
As we were talking to her she phoned an RV park to see if they had any room for us, they said yes but we might have to drop the trailer in the parking lot to get into a spot. We followed her instructions on how to get to the park and drove about 20 miles and found the RV park (which is on a lake (probably a reservoir)), we drove around looking for a large spot to park and couldn`t find one, so decided to drop the trailer. Well.................easier said than done. We couldn`t get the trailer hitch to come off the RV so I drove up to the office and asked if we could just stay in the boat parking for the night and he said yes. So........................we tried to get as level as possible (we are on a slant still) and went to pull out the living room slide and guess what? It wouldn’t slide out! Neither would the bedroom slide. Oh my! So if all else fails, read the manual.........It stated that the panel for the fuses for the slide outs are on the roadside panel, so we got out to find the fuses and after a bit found them and unhooked the cover of the panel (after pulling a shit load of stuff out of the way). We found the ignition bypass fuse and pulled it out to see if it was burned out and it looked like it was so we looked to see if we could find another fuse to replace it. Well, when we pulled the fuse out I noticed that when I opened the door the steps stayed out (which they weren’t before) so I thought what they heck let’s try the slide out..................well low and behold the living room slide came out along with the bedroom slide. However, when we put the cover back on the fuse box, the steps came in and will not stay out, which they should if we turn them off. Well, we now have slideage, both living room and bedroom, so we are spending the night in a parking lot at a small lake in Arizona on the border of Mexico with no front TV (cause I think it is because we do not have the fuse in) but the bedroom TV is working. We are not hooked into any power, because of course (we are in a parking lot) but have the genset on so we have air conditioning because it is still very hot outside. We’re supposed to shut the genset off at 9PM but I think we’ll keep it on since we’re in the friggin’ parking lot with no power or water or even a picnic table for cry’in out loud! We’ll see if they make us shut it off....
We took the dogs for a walk along the lake (reservoir) and Bigdog went into the water and lied down (just like at the lake) and had a smile on his face. He even had a drink and looked at us saying, wow, this even tastes like the lake, not that stupid water we ran in a while ago. (This was the ocean along the pacific coast in April). I don’t think he has been that cool for a very long time. Gracie wouldn’t go into the water but she had fun getting tangled on the picnic table.
Ross is now watching TV in the bedroom, which I am going to join him right away and I have been typing on the table in our wonderful kitchen area. Ross just informed me that the temp in here is 86C, it has cooled down considerably, he also left and just let me know that there is spectacular lightning off to the west!
Tomorrow is the crossing of the Mexican border, we are doing well.
PEACE, love and hugs
Ross and Kim
PS..................WOOOO HOOOOOO! (THAT’S ME, Ross talk’in)
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Thursday July 16th, 2009
Today has been a glorious day. We made it to the Grand Canyon today, another one of Ross’s bucket list places. Unfortunately I have already been, but we passed the Flintstone Park! When Pam was 3 and Stacy was 6 we went to this park and had a grand time. I had forgotten where it was, I have pictures of the kids on the rides and stuff now I know where it was! Wow! Stacy and Pam you need to take the grandchildren here so they have been in the same place as you have been. I took pictures of the park, I’m sure at least Stacy remembers!
We also went on a helicopter ride over the Grand Canyon, wow, what a “wow” experience. Neither Ross or I can come up with a better word.......”Wow” says it all! We spent 40 minutes over the vast expanse of the Grand Canyon! It is still a wow.
We stopped at Williams, Arizona (2 miles away from our KOA campground) so we could pick up some more water and a few other things and found a fabulous little pub on Route 66 with a single guitar player that sang songs of our youth! He wasn’t great but a fun guy, Ross played tambourine and the maracas, and pounded on his guitar case for drums. Ross suggested he pull out his v drums and play with him tomorrow night, but alas, no, we need to get going! Ross gave him our cards to come visit. They could play a few tunes!
Our next stop is to be Phoenix, but it’s supposed to be super hot there, and I phoned to cancel our reservation at the KOA there but they need 48 hours for cancellation, so we decided that we really don’t want to subject us, the animals and our RV and car to that kind of heat (112 F in the shade) so we will decide whether or not we will stay there or not, we might just keep driving to stay out of the record setting heat! The next big city is Tucson (Heart attack grill restaurant) and after that is Nogales Mexico. We really don’t know what we will do, so I will let you know that if we don’t stop at the KOA in Phoenix
we don’t know where we will have internet again so don’t be concerned if you don’t hear from us for a while. Mexico is our next stop and we have no plans to stop anywhere there except for our house in Bucerias, where we don’t have a phone line, let alone an internet connection. So let’s just say don’t be concerned if you don’t hear from us for a while.
Will let you all know if we stop at an internet cafe or get a campground with internet.
PEACE love and hugs (We think of Freemont Street still)
Ross and Kim
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Wednesday July 15th, 2009
Hi everyone, guess what........we got outta Vegas! Hurray! Not before a bit of a problem with getting Betsy started. We called our Vegas RV guy and he came all the way from Henderson (a long way) to pull out some fuses and put them in again and guess what? She started up right away. He told me that when you start mucking with the electrical sometimes you just need to reset everything, he reset us and she started up like new! He wouldn’t even let me pay for his trip, a really nice guy!
We started out on I15 waiting for highway 93 to come up to go to the dam, and guess what, no highway 93. We pulled a u-e and went down a highway called Rose Highway and ended up where we needed to be, but there were so many stop lights I ended up turning off the air as it kept heating up the engine. We got to the highway we wanted and continued over the dam and up the other side. Wow, it is so breathtaking, even if you have seen it lots and lots of times. Ross was having a fine time with the Genset, it wouldn’t stay on! I suggested it was because it was so hot thank god the dash air stayed on most of the time.
We detoured from I40 so we could drive on Route 66. Ross was in 7th heaven......he started to sing, you know what, I made him stop! We stopped at a cafe called Road Kill and had lupper, and the Genset stayed on so the children were ok, Ross had a cheeseburger and I had homemade chicken soup and a turkey and Swiss sandwich on sourdough bread, yummy. Ross of course had to by a T-shirt and a couple of road signs (for the casa), the Route 66 road signs of course.
It was just about 40C when we left Vegas at about 11 am and by the time we got to the KOA in the Grand Canyon was 23C and sprinkling, wow what a difference. I opened all my windows, unfortunately I had to leave the AC on because it was muggy, but it is sure nice to be able to open the windows and smell the fresh air. I really hate to say this but I think we are done with Vegas for a long while.
Ross just got a blog from our Bucerias group from Larry (a hippy from San Francisco) and he told us that Carlos Santana is putting on a concert for his hometown (close to us) on Nov 25th, guess where we will be!
All the animals are doing much better here; sniffing out the windows was very tiring for them so they are all napping now, to be up much later..............
Talk to you soon,
(we are still in hippie mode) PEACE
Ross and Kim
Hi everyone, guess what........we got outta Vegas! Hurray! Not before a bit of a problem with getting Betsy started. We called our Vegas RV guy and he came all the way from Henderson (a long way) to pull out some fuses and put them in again and guess what? She started up right away. He told me that when you start mucking with the electrical sometimes you just need to reset everything, he reset us and she started up like new! He wouldn’t even let me pay for his trip, a really nice guy!
We started out on I15 waiting for highway 93 to come up to go to the dam, and guess what, no highway 93. We pulled a u-e and went down a highway called Rose Highway and ended up where we needed to be, but there were so many stop lights I ended up turning off the air as it kept heating up the engine. We got to the highway we wanted and continued over the dam and up the other side. Wow, it is so breathtaking, even if you have seen it lots and lots of times. Ross was having a fine time with the Genset, it wouldn’t stay on! I suggested it was because it was so hot thank god the dash air stayed on most of the time.
We detoured from I40 so we could drive on Route 66. Ross was in 7th heaven......he started to sing, you know what, I made him stop! We stopped at a cafe called Road Kill and had lupper, and the Genset stayed on so the children were ok, Ross had a cheeseburger and I had homemade chicken soup and a turkey and Swiss sandwich on sourdough bread, yummy. Ross of course had to by a T-shirt and a couple of road signs (for the casa), the Route 66 road signs of course.
It was just about 40C when we left Vegas at about 11 am and by the time we got to the KOA in the Grand Canyon was 23C and sprinkling, wow what a difference. I opened all my windows, unfortunately I had to leave the AC on because it was muggy, but it is sure nice to be able to open the windows and smell the fresh air. I really hate to say this but I think we are done with Vegas for a long while.
Ross just got a blog from our Bucerias group from Larry (a hippy from San Francisco) and he told us that Carlos Santana is putting on a concert for his hometown (close to us) on Nov 25th, guess where we will be!
All the animals are doing much better here; sniffing out the windows was very tiring for them so they are all napping now, to be up much later..............
Talk to you soon,
(we are still in hippie mode) PEACE
Ross and Kim
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Ooooops
Monday July 13th and Tuesday July 14th, 2009
I forgot to write my blog last night so you’ll be getting two, two, two blogs in one. And if you call right now I will send you another one entirely free. Ok, so I’m a little nuts........................alright a lot nuts, we digress.
Not much happened yesterday, no awning, no snow, no money won. We did go to a couple of the casinos on the other side of I15, The Palace Station & the Rio, the Rio was very expensive (we were looking for dinner) so we went to the Station and with a card (free) we got 4 dollars off the buffet. It wasn’t bad, not great though. I got my nails done yesterday and of course went downtown, Ross’s favourite hangout now, and had a great burger at the Golden Gate, an old fashioned diner, food and staff to match! (Ross’s words) It was still very hot as it has started the day today, 38c at 11am. We got a phone call at 8 this morning from our awning guy, he said they had ours on a truck and would be delivering it today. We got some good news, bad news, good news, bad news a while ago. The awning they sent was bent, but they have an extra electric one, but our RV is aluminum and they only work on fibreglass, but he is here now seeing if we can rig something up, if he can he can put it on today! If not we will have to stay another night, which is going to screw up my reservations I made yesterday at the Grand Canyon and Phoenix. Another day in the life of..........oh well, it could be worse, we could be in Fillmore, Utah, a hole in the wall of the United States of America!
Well he is here now so I will say adieu for now and finish this saga tonight..............stay tuned......
It is now 9:30pm and guess what..........................?????????????????, we have awning, yeah! It’s even electric, however we had to take the small awning off the bedroom window, cause the regular awnings are 14’ wide the electric ones are 16’ wide, so it’s too wide and it hit the bedroom awning. We need to have someone adapt the bedroom awning to only come out as far as the slide, like the newer model RV’s.
We went, for the last time, to the Bay City Diner downtown at the Golden Nugget. Ross had his famous burger and I had the ribs, they were soooooooooooooooooo good. Ross ate 2 of them because I wasn’t that terribly hungry and he made them disappear quite rapidly.
We stayed on Freemont street to listen to one of the “Summer of ‘69” bands, they played Suzie Q, These boots are made for walking and American Woman to name a few, they were great. The girls had on mini skirts with flowers and paisley patterns with go go boots and the guys had on striped pants and white cotton shirts, it was so 60’s.
We are on our way, finally, to the Grand Canyon to stay a couple of nights cause Ross has never been. So there we go!
On the road again!
PEACE, hugs and love
Talk to you soon
Ross and Kim
I forgot to write my blog last night so you’ll be getting two, two, two blogs in one. And if you call right now I will send you another one entirely free. Ok, so I’m a little nuts........................alright a lot nuts, we digress.
Not much happened yesterday, no awning, no snow, no money won. We did go to a couple of the casinos on the other side of I15, The Palace Station & the Rio, the Rio was very expensive (we were looking for dinner) so we went to the Station and with a card (free) we got 4 dollars off the buffet. It wasn’t bad, not great though. I got my nails done yesterday and of course went downtown, Ross’s favourite hangout now, and had a great burger at the Golden Gate, an old fashioned diner, food and staff to match! (Ross’s words) It was still very hot as it has started the day today, 38c at 11am. We got a phone call at 8 this morning from our awning guy, he said they had ours on a truck and would be delivering it today. We got some good news, bad news, good news, bad news a while ago. The awning they sent was bent, but they have an extra electric one, but our RV is aluminum and they only work on fibreglass, but he is here now seeing if we can rig something up, if he can he can put it on today! If not we will have to stay another night, which is going to screw up my reservations I made yesterday at the Grand Canyon and Phoenix. Another day in the life of..........oh well, it could be worse, we could be in Fillmore, Utah, a hole in the wall of the United States of America!
Well he is here now so I will say adieu for now and finish this saga tonight..............stay tuned......
It is now 9:30pm and guess what..........................?????????????????, we have awning, yeah! It’s even electric, however we had to take the small awning off the bedroom window, cause the regular awnings are 14’ wide the electric ones are 16’ wide, so it’s too wide and it hit the bedroom awning. We need to have someone adapt the bedroom awning to only come out as far as the slide, like the newer model RV’s.
We went, for the last time, to the Bay City Diner downtown at the Golden Nugget. Ross had his famous burger and I had the ribs, they were soooooooooooooooooo good. Ross ate 2 of them because I wasn’t that terribly hungry and he made them disappear quite rapidly.
We stayed on Freemont street to listen to one of the “Summer of ‘69” bands, they played Suzie Q, These boots are made for walking and American Woman to name a few, they were great. The girls had on mini skirts with flowers and paisley patterns with go go boots and the guys had on striped pants and white cotton shirts, it was so 60’s.
We are on our way, finally, to the Grand Canyon to stay a couple of nights cause Ross has never been. So there we go!
On the road again!
PEACE, hugs and love
Talk to you soon
Ross and Kim
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Sunday July 12th, 2009
Well, here we sit, again, at the KOA Circus Circus and it’s 106 degrees F, (41 C), hot hot hot hot hot……………………… We drove out to the dam today and got to the hotel and the traffic was backed up because of road construction for about 2 miles, so we decided to turn around, we are going to go that way anyway to the Grand Canyon so we will see it then………….when ever that is! Hopefully we can get the awning installed tomorrow and leave Tuesday, as much as we love Vegas, it’s time to leave. We actually have to turn the air conditioner around and let it blow on our Star Choice components so they will work, it’s way too hot for them.
We stopped at Albertsons to get some more wine, I was running low, Darren where are youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! Then we went to the pool, wow, the water was cold, only for a couple of minutes until you get used to it, it is so good to be cold.
Ross promised me we would go to Circus Circus and I got all dolled up and he decided he didn’t want to go. I told him, I got dressed to go out for the first time since we have been here, and all he said was “you did?” After wanting to smack him I changed into my jammies and I am much more comfy. We are going to watch a movie and then I think slumber land.
Both Ross and I have decided that Mexico will not feel so hot after a week in Vegas in July!
Peace Love and Hugs
Ross and Kim Big Dog, Gracie, Shadow, Tigger and Sunshine
And she won’t wear the hot little number she bought yesterday as anything but a top…..and it’s a sexy little shorty kinda dress…..so of course I didn’t notice!
We stopped at Albertsons to get some more wine, I was running low, Darren where are youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! Then we went to the pool, wow, the water was cold, only for a couple of minutes until you get used to it, it is so good to be cold.
Ross promised me we would go to Circus Circus and I got all dolled up and he decided he didn’t want to go. I told him, I got dressed to go out for the first time since we have been here, and all he said was “you did?” After wanting to smack him I changed into my jammies and I am much more comfy. We are going to watch a movie and then I think slumber land.
Both Ross and I have decided that Mexico will not feel so hot after a week in Vegas in July!
Peace Love and Hugs
Ross and Kim Big Dog, Gracie, Shadow, Tigger and Sunshine
And she won’t wear the hot little number she bought yesterday as anything but a top…..and it’s a sexy little shorty kinda dress…..so of course I didn’t notice!
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Saturday July 11th, 2009
We really need to leave this great town, or we won’t have any money left. No, we are not spending it gambling, well, some of it is about $20 $30 dollars a day, but Ross bought me a beautiful necklace (just like the one I got from Avon for everyone except for me) cause I didn’t get one. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, he loves me! We also went to Fry’s (it is a humongous electronic superstore) and picked up a power conditioner/voltage regulator, cause Mexico is known for its power surges/outages. Ross is having problems with his computer (when does he not) so I got a program to clean up his computer.
We found a Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market that has a green logo rather than the normal blue, and it is strictly a small supermarket. It was so cute/
We are trying to find herb seeds to bring to Mexico cause apparently herbs are hard to come by, (sage is one). We picked up 3 jars at Wal-Mart and a few other spices but thought seeds would be the best. It seems like the stores are all out, but we will continue looking. When anyone comes down to visit if they could bring some, it would be great. We are still going to continue to look for Garden Centre’s along the way on our travels.
After our shopping we stopped in at the Sahara for their $8.99 buffet (Ross ate way too much) and was in a slot machine tournament (we didn’t win, but it was fun) and Ross again won at the slots, which is a good thing cause I haven’t been.
We are now back at the ranch, it’s 8:40 pm and we are catching up with the critters and our e-mail. I just took the puppies out for a pee and it is quite pleasant out so I think we need to sit outside for a bit.
Peace Love and hugs (we are still doing the Summer of ’69 thing!
Ross and Kim
We really need to leave this great town, or we won’t have any money left. No, we are not spending it gambling, well, some of it is about $20 $30 dollars a day, but Ross bought me a beautiful necklace (just like the one I got from Avon for everyone except for me) cause I didn’t get one. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, he loves me! We also went to Fry’s (it is a humongous electronic superstore) and picked up a power conditioner/voltage regulator, cause Mexico is known for its power surges/outages. Ross is having problems with his computer (when does he not) so I got a program to clean up his computer.
We found a Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market that has a green logo rather than the normal blue, and it is strictly a small supermarket. It was so cute/
We are trying to find herb seeds to bring to Mexico cause apparently herbs are hard to come by, (sage is one). We picked up 3 jars at Wal-Mart and a few other spices but thought seeds would be the best. It seems like the stores are all out, but we will continue looking. When anyone comes down to visit if they could bring some, it would be great. We are still going to continue to look for Garden Centre’s along the way on our travels.
After our shopping we stopped in at the Sahara for their $8.99 buffet (Ross ate way too much) and was in a slot machine tournament (we didn’t win, but it was fun) and Ross again won at the slots, which is a good thing cause I haven’t been.
We are now back at the ranch, it’s 8:40 pm and we are catching up with the critters and our e-mail. I just took the puppies out for a pee and it is quite pleasant out so I think we need to sit outside for a bit.
Peace Love and hugs (we are still doing the Summer of ’69 thing!
Ross and Kim
Friday July 10th, 2009
I know everyone is on tender hooks wondering if we are leaving Vegas or not……the answer, my friends, is no. We get to stay in this fun filled city until probably Tuesday, cause the one and only awning that would fit, and was powered was SOLD to someone not as worthy as us. However, here we sit for at least another 3 days as we probably get our new awning Monday some time (non-powered) so we will be here until at least Tuesday.
It is a hard life when you are stuck in Vegas over a weekend. We did a bit of searching today for The Discovery store and/or Sharper Image for Ross to drool over the stuff they have, he wanted to buy another Ionizer, but no, Sharper Image no longer exists in Vegas, for that matter neither does The Discovery Store, Ross is astounded! He might go into a corner and cry a bit!
Oh well, buck up kiddo, we had a great dinner, again at the City Diner at Golden Gate Ross had prime rib and I had the specialty………wait for it……………….shrimp cocktail (their specialty). We listened to some very funky 60’s music and lost about $50.00 at our favorite machines. He played some penny slots too, but raced each other to lose!!
The air conditioner we bought in Pocatello was put to good use today (cause it’s friggin’ hot here) was plugged in today, and between the 2 roof air conditioners and our new free standing air conditioner it is now, at 1 am (pacific time), is 75 degrees in here (about 22 C) and outside it is 89.5 degrees (31.9 C), I know, it has rained in Edmonton for about 4 days now???
Peace Love and Hugs
Ross and Kim
I know everyone is on tender hooks wondering if we are leaving Vegas or not……the answer, my friends, is no. We get to stay in this fun filled city until probably Tuesday, cause the one and only awning that would fit, and was powered was SOLD to someone not as worthy as us. However, here we sit for at least another 3 days as we probably get our new awning Monday some time (non-powered) so we will be here until at least Tuesday.
It is a hard life when you are stuck in Vegas over a weekend. We did a bit of searching today for The Discovery store and/or Sharper Image for Ross to drool over the stuff they have, he wanted to buy another Ionizer, but no, Sharper Image no longer exists in Vegas, for that matter neither does The Discovery Store, Ross is astounded! He might go into a corner and cry a bit!
Oh well, buck up kiddo, we had a great dinner, again at the City Diner at Golden Gate Ross had prime rib and I had the specialty………wait for it……………….shrimp cocktail (their specialty). We listened to some very funky 60’s music and lost about $50.00 at our favorite machines. He played some penny slots too, but raced each other to lose!!
The air conditioner we bought in Pocatello was put to good use today (cause it’s friggin’ hot here) was plugged in today, and between the 2 roof air conditioners and our new free standing air conditioner it is now, at 1 am (pacific time), is 75 degrees in here (about 22 C) and outside it is 89.5 degrees (31.9 C), I know, it has rained in Edmonton for about 4 days now???
Peace Love and Hugs
Ross and Kim
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Wednesday July 8th, 2009
Before we carry on with today, just want everyone to know that we did not dip in the pool, Ross drove out to take a picture of our poor awning in the ditch!
We are now in the KOA attached to Circus Circus, Wow; we are in Vegas......what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, that is sooooooooooooooooo cool! We have called an RV guy for our living room slide and will talk to him about a Holiday Rambler dealer here in Vegas so we can get our awning fixed. We have talked with our insurance company and they will pay for it less $250.00 deductable and they will pay $1500.00 for loss of use. We have reserved our spot until the 14th, hopefully we will not be here that long! All our animals are spread out on our carpet very hot! We have the air on but it is super hot still. The temp was at 40c.
We went out for supper at Circus Circus, Ross had the best beef dip ever and I had a teriyaki rice bowl, yummy. We then went to Wallyworld to get some fans, it’s damn hot! and then drove the strip (we had to), now we are back again, trying to work with a reallyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy slow internet. We have to get up at 8 for the RV repair man they recommended, he is coming at 9:30 (yuck).
Talk to you soon
Ross and Kim
We are now in the KOA attached to Circus Circus, Wow; we are in Vegas......what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, that is sooooooooooooooooo cool! We have called an RV guy for our living room slide and will talk to him about a Holiday Rambler dealer here in Vegas so we can get our awning fixed. We have talked with our insurance company and they will pay for it less $250.00 deductable and they will pay $1500.00 for loss of use. We have reserved our spot until the 14th, hopefully we will not be here that long! All our animals are spread out on our carpet very hot! We have the air on but it is super hot still. The temp was at 40c.
We went out for supper at Circus Circus, Ross had the best beef dip ever and I had a teriyaki rice bowl, yummy. We then went to Wallyworld to get some fans, it’s damn hot! and then drove the strip (we had to), now we are back again, trying to work with a reallyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy slow internet. We have to get up at 8 for the RV repair man they recommended, he is coming at 9:30 (yuck).
Talk to you soon
Ross and Kim
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Tuesday July 7th, 2009
It never rains but it pours. We pulled in our living room slide this morning and it didn’t go in all the way so we need to get that repaired and on top of that, driving down I15 between Salt Lake City and where we are now (Fillmore Utah) the wind was so bad it tore our big awning over the door right off! Wow are we going to have one hell of an insurance claim! It has been super windy because of the cold air from the north and the hot air from the south colliding.
I have to admit I15 has been a great road, except for the concrete road we travelled over and shook the RV around outside Salt Lake City. There hasn’t been a lot of construction, just by Butte Montana and Salt Lake city.
We got in about 5:30 and went to a neighbourhood pizza place for supper and now we are just chillin’ in the RV, it has been a very stressful day for us. Well actually, it was stressful until we realized we could claim the damage on insurance (we are covered until the 24th), now, we are just pooped. It didn’t dawn on us to use our insurance; it was the owner at this KOA that suggested it. We must be more tired than normal.
There is a pool at this KOA so we just might go in for a dip.
Talk to you soon
Ross and Kim
It never rains but it pours. We pulled in our living room slide this morning and it didn’t go in all the way so we need to get that repaired and on top of that, driving down I15 between Salt Lake City and where we are now (Fillmore Utah) the wind was so bad it tore our big awning over the door right off! Wow are we going to have one hell of an insurance claim! It has been super windy because of the cold air from the north and the hot air from the south colliding.
I have to admit I15 has been a great road, except for the concrete road we travelled over and shook the RV around outside Salt Lake City. There hasn’t been a lot of construction, just by Butte Montana and Salt Lake city.
We got in about 5:30 and went to a neighbourhood pizza place for supper and now we are just chillin’ in the RV, it has been a very stressful day for us. Well actually, it was stressful until we realized we could claim the damage on insurance (we are covered until the 24th), now, we are just pooped. It didn’t dawn on us to use our insurance; it was the owner at this KOA that suggested it. We must be more tired than normal.
There is a pool at this KOA so we just might go in for a dip.
Talk to you soon
Ross and Kim
Monday, July 6, 2009
Monday July 6th, 2009
4:53 pm You get to the point every once in a while, thinking that there aren’t any good people in this world and all people want to do is rip you off. Let us tell you, 2 men from Idaho Falls have restored our faith in human beings. As you heard yesterday 2 guys came to look at our slide motor and they took it with them to get fixed. Some people would say that we were crazy to let them have it since we don’t know them from Adam and they could have ripped us off. Yesterday was Sunday by the way, so they came on a day off. They came back this afternoon with a completely fixed motor, reinstalled it, found out that whoever installed it from the factory did it wrong and it was pulling on one side faster than the other, realigned it so it would pull in straight (that was why it burnt out). They also fixed our awning, the inside part of the slide that we broke off (we forgot to pull up the driver’s seat), and they fixed one of our basement doors. He also had phoned around all over the country this morning trying to get us a new one, just in case his friend couldn’t fix it. He finally found one on the east coast costing 900.00 and it would take up to 10 days to get here and they wanted the money up front. For everything he did, including his drive time and phone calls he only charged us 600.00! I love people!
Not much happened today, we went to Shopco to look at a 3’ swimming pool that Ross and I had a bet that the box would be bigger than the box of the air conditioner we bought yesterday (Ross said it would be the same size I said it would be bigger, by the way we have no place to put these except in the living room of the RV) well Ross won, so I owe him supper. We were going to BBQ tonight but Ross decided since I owe him supper we are going out. Don’t know where.
Pam and Stacy, do you remember going to Village Inn in Denver and Pam and I always got blueberry crapes with whipping cream on it? Well we went to IHOP (International House of Pancakes) for brunch and I had them. Wow were they good, this was the first time I had them since Village Inn!
The weather has been great, thunder storms for Ross at night and in the mid 80’s (29C) in the day time for me, hurray! I heard Edmonton was getting some good weather too, it’s about time!
8:32 pm Hi again, just wanted to let you know that we had blueberries, left over KFC and cheese for supper, so I guess I still owe Ross a supper! We played pool at the club house and we both won once so we stopped at that!
We are off to Fillmore, Utah tomorrow, talk to you then!
Talk to you soon
Ross and Kim
4:53 pm You get to the point every once in a while, thinking that there aren’t any good people in this world and all people want to do is rip you off. Let us tell you, 2 men from Idaho Falls have restored our faith in human beings. As you heard yesterday 2 guys came to look at our slide motor and they took it with them to get fixed. Some people would say that we were crazy to let them have it since we don’t know them from Adam and they could have ripped us off. Yesterday was Sunday by the way, so they came on a day off. They came back this afternoon with a completely fixed motor, reinstalled it, found out that whoever installed it from the factory did it wrong and it was pulling on one side faster than the other, realigned it so it would pull in straight (that was why it burnt out). They also fixed our awning, the inside part of the slide that we broke off (we forgot to pull up the driver’s seat), and they fixed one of our basement doors. He also had phoned around all over the country this morning trying to get us a new one, just in case his friend couldn’t fix it. He finally found one on the east coast costing 900.00 and it would take up to 10 days to get here and they wanted the money up front. For everything he did, including his drive time and phone calls he only charged us 600.00! I love people!
Not much happened today, we went to Shopco to look at a 3’ swimming pool that Ross and I had a bet that the box would be bigger than the box of the air conditioner we bought yesterday (Ross said it would be the same size I said it would be bigger, by the way we have no place to put these except in the living room of the RV) well Ross won, so I owe him supper. We were going to BBQ tonight but Ross decided since I owe him supper we are going out. Don’t know where.
Pam and Stacy, do you remember going to Village Inn in Denver and Pam and I always got blueberry crapes with whipping cream on it? Well we went to IHOP (International House of Pancakes) for brunch and I had them. Wow were they good, this was the first time I had them since Village Inn!
The weather has been great, thunder storms for Ross at night and in the mid 80’s (29C) in the day time for me, hurray! I heard Edmonton was getting some good weather too, it’s about time!
8:32 pm Hi again, just wanted to let you know that we had blueberries, left over KFC and cheese for supper, so I guess I still owe Ross a supper! We played pool at the club house and we both won once so we stopped at that!
We are off to Fillmore, Utah tomorrow, talk to you then!
Talk to you soon
Ross and Kim
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Sunday July 5th, 2009
Well, the July 4th fireworks were even better than I remember. We went back to the fairgrounds at about 9:30 and parked in a small business centre parking lot right beside the grounds and you will not believe this, a van parked beside us and we started talking, they are from Edmonton on their way to San Francisco and to top it off, she works at CRA and she has heard of Ross. Is this a small world or what! It didn’t take us long to get back to the KOA and we had a pleasant rest of the night.
We ran into a bit of a problem this morning though, it seems like our living room slide motor has quit as it won’t come in, so we are staying another night, and waiting for a RV repair person to call us back so he can come see what is wrong. So here we sit, it is a pleasant 85 degrees (29c) with a slight wind blowing, 20% chance of thundershowers. We went to Fred Meyer yesterday and found a great deal on a portable air conditioner (we have no air in our house in Bucerias) $200.00 off so we asked the guy if he could hold it for us so we could pick it up today in Betsy, but they wouldn’t so we left it. We are going to take the globe out of the back seat of the car and see if they still have it today and we will have room in the car for it. It’s pretty sad that a 20’ trailer won’t hold all your stuff and you have to have your vacuum cleaner in the trunk of the car and an old air conditioner and a globe in your back seat! Oh well........................ (We won’t mention the stuff we have shoved in the shower stall). The repair guy never did call back so we looked in another paper and phoned another out of work guy. It is now 7:49 Sunday night and our unemployed RV repair guy come to see us from Idaho Falls (about an hour away) and he told us that the motor had burned out and we need to get it fixed. To get a new one shipped would be about 10 days but we could get ours rebuilt and have it installed tomorrow afternoon/night. So here we are in Pocatello Idaho for tonight and tomorrow night then hopefully off to Utah and beyond the next day. We are going to go play pool now; they have a couple of tables in the club house. ps: We went back to Fred Meyer and picked up the air conditioner and got another 10% off just cause!
Talk to you soon
Ross and Kim
Well, the July 4th fireworks were even better than I remember. We went back to the fairgrounds at about 9:30 and parked in a small business centre parking lot right beside the grounds and you will not believe this, a van parked beside us and we started talking, they are from Edmonton on their way to San Francisco and to top it off, she works at CRA and she has heard of Ross. Is this a small world or what! It didn’t take us long to get back to the KOA and we had a pleasant rest of the night.
We ran into a bit of a problem this morning though, it seems like our living room slide motor has quit as it won’t come in, so we are staying another night, and waiting for a RV repair person to call us back so he can come see what is wrong. So here we sit, it is a pleasant 85 degrees (29c) with a slight wind blowing, 20% chance of thundershowers. We went to Fred Meyer yesterday and found a great deal on a portable air conditioner (we have no air in our house in Bucerias) $200.00 off so we asked the guy if he could hold it for us so we could pick it up today in Betsy, but they wouldn’t so we left it. We are going to take the globe out of the back seat of the car and see if they still have it today and we will have room in the car for it. It’s pretty sad that a 20’ trailer won’t hold all your stuff and you have to have your vacuum cleaner in the trunk of the car and an old air conditioner and a globe in your back seat! Oh well........................ (We won’t mention the stuff we have shoved in the shower stall). The repair guy never did call back so we looked in another paper and phoned another out of work guy. It is now 7:49 Sunday night and our unemployed RV repair guy come to see us from Idaho Falls (about an hour away) and he told us that the motor had burned out and we need to get it fixed. To get a new one shipped would be about 10 days but we could get ours rebuilt and have it installed tomorrow afternoon/night. So here we are in Pocatello Idaho for tonight and tomorrow night then hopefully off to Utah and beyond the next day. We are going to go play pool now; they have a couple of tables in the club house. ps: We went back to Fred Meyer and picked up the air conditioner and got another 10% off just cause!
Talk to you soon
Ross and Kim
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday July 4th, 2009
We are writing this in a hail storm in a beautiful KOA campsite in Pocatello, Idaho. We got here quite early in the day, about 3pm and went to the fairgrounds to check out the action. There were a few rides and a band playing on the stage. We toured around, bought candy floss and a corn dog then left to tour the city. After driving around seeing the sights we stopped at the sizzler restaurant for a very nice meal, Ross had steak and I had steak and lobster. Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmy! Just as we got back to the RV (Betsy) it started pouring rain, and hail with thunder and lightning constantly, Ross is in his glory. We went outside for a bit, (actually before the second sentence of this blog) to sit outside the KOA office to watch, we sat on a towel and had an umbrella overhead. Not much happened today, the trailer lights are working just fine and other than that we just tootled right along I15. I have made a reservation in Fillmore Utah at another KOA for tomorrow night.
Talk to you soon
Ross and Kim
We are writing this in a hail storm in a beautiful KOA campsite in Pocatello, Idaho. We got here quite early in the day, about 3pm and went to the fairgrounds to check out the action. There were a few rides and a band playing on the stage. We toured around, bought candy floss and a corn dog then left to tour the city. After driving around seeing the sights we stopped at the sizzler restaurant for a very nice meal, Ross had steak and I had steak and lobster. Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmy! Just as we got back to the RV (Betsy) it started pouring rain, and hail with thunder and lightning constantly, Ross is in his glory. We went outside for a bit, (actually before the second sentence of this blog) to sit outside the KOA office to watch, we sat on a towel and had an umbrella overhead. Not much happened today, the trailer lights are working just fine and other than that we just tootled right along I15. I have made a reservation in Fillmore Utah at another KOA for tomorrow night.
Talk to you soon
Ross and Kim
July 2nd and 3rd - We have internet - hurrah!
July 2nd, 2009
Hi Ho everyone, we have completed day 1 of our “Excellent Adventure” (Ross is Ted and I’m Bob) and we are sitting in the Lethbridge Casino parking lot. We ate a great supper (Ross had a steak and I had a seafood croissant) and Ross won $68.00 gambling! We are going to use some of it for breakfast tomorrow and I guess we will try to win some more. (It’s a tough life)
We had a bit of a problem this morning, we left Sherwood Park at about 10:30 am and about half way to Red Deer we stopped and felt the tires on the trailer and they were way too hot. The trailer manufacturer is in Red Deer so we stopped in and found out that the tires on the trailer were good, but they weren’t radials! So we now have 4 new tires (they are a lot bigger than the ones that were on it) and Ross said the trailer pulls much better now. We left Red Deer at about 3:30 pm and pulled into Lethbridge at about 8:00pm.
The weather has been great, sunny most of the morning and the afternoon and cloudy the rest of the time. We both agreed that we couldn’t have had better weather on day 1. We are going to cross the border tomorrow, so we’ll see if they let us in with all our possessions (they might think that we are trying to sneak into their country)! Yeah, right, like we would stay in the states when we have a house waiting in paradise! I got all our documentation out in anticipation of our crossing, Ross thinks it might be busy cause of July 4th. I guess we will have to see.
Oh yeah, while we were in the casino, Ross phoned an old buddy of his that he hasn’t seen for more than 30 years (he played in a band called Wizard with Ross), his name is Doug Freeman (bass player) so we planned for him to meet us here in the parking lot of the casino!
Talk to you soon!
July 3rd, 2009
It was so cool, we stayed in the casino parking lot last night and woke up at about 8:30 am and thought we would have a cheap breakfast at the casino. We walked up to the casino and found out it doesn’t open until 9:30, we had 10 minutes to wait so we just joined the few people in between the two sets of doors to wait. By the time 9:30 came there must have been at least 30 people waiting ( mostly older people), Ross and I both thought that there were sure a lot of die hard gamblers waiting for the doors to open. Once they were opened they all started running, again we thought they were running to find their favourite machine, but no, they were all running toward the restaurant, the breakfast was only $4.95. I guess this is how the seniors spend their mornings, waiting for cheap breakfasts, we guessed we were about to join them. You would be surprised that by the time we found a booth, all the tables were full and people were waiting for a table, wow!
We got out of Lethbridge without incident and were pleasantly surprised when the US border guards didn’t even inspect the RV, all Ross had to do was drive through a big building where they x-rayed the vehicle, we were stopped no more than 5 minutes, we are hoping the Mexican border will be the same.
While driving towards Butte Montana, we traveled through gorgeous mountain ranges and through a rain storm, there was a bit of lightning and thunder but not much. On some of the hills going up we ended up only going about 30 miles an hour, really slow. We found out that after the rainstorm our trailer lights started going funny. Ross would turn his left signal light on and his right one would flash, when he hit the brakes the back up camera came on even though it was switched off. We have unplugged the plug and we are hoping once it dries it will work properly. Getting the electrical checked on this beast will take forever! We have our fingers crossed that it will work in the morning.
Now we get to the fun part. Before we left home I had searched the internet looking for a couple of RV parks to help us out. When we were close to Butte, we plugged in the name of the RV Park we had decided on in the GPS and the RV Park we were looking at was actually on one of the choices on the GPS so we hit go. We followed the instructions and found it had directed us to a 2 lane road that looked like it went nowhere. Well it did, the paved road stopped and we ended up on a gravel road with nowhere to turn around, until we came upon a road that went on the diagonal. We tried to turn around there and ended up jackknifing the trailer, lucky for us there was a SUV waiting patiently for us, when we asked what was down the road farther she told us that there was a place to turn around up farther a bit. We headed down that way and finally got the rig turned around, in the mean time when we were talking with the lady in the SUV she told us that there were about 4 other people getting lost as the GPS didn’t have the right co-ordinates and she told us how to get to the RV Park. Earlier on in the day we had stopped at a gas station and bought some fireworks, the lady that sold them to us told us that Butte was a party town and we had decided that we might stay a couple of days since we thought it might be fun. We got turned around, found the RV Park (it’s yucky) and we are going to drive to Pocatello Idaho as planned! We stopped in too late for the people working in the office and on the door it said that they had wireless internet so we decided to stay, guess what, no internet, that’s why we are getting a few days of blog in one. Oh well, tomorrow is another day!
Talk to you soon
Ross and Kim
Hi Ho everyone, we have completed day 1 of our “Excellent Adventure” (Ross is Ted and I’m Bob) and we are sitting in the Lethbridge Casino parking lot. We ate a great supper (Ross had a steak and I had a seafood croissant) and Ross won $68.00 gambling! We are going to use some of it for breakfast tomorrow and I guess we will try to win some more. (It’s a tough life)
We had a bit of a problem this morning, we left Sherwood Park at about 10:30 am and about half way to Red Deer we stopped and felt the tires on the trailer and they were way too hot. The trailer manufacturer is in Red Deer so we stopped in and found out that the tires on the trailer were good, but they weren’t radials! So we now have 4 new tires (they are a lot bigger than the ones that were on it) and Ross said the trailer pulls much better now. We left Red Deer at about 3:30 pm and pulled into Lethbridge at about 8:00pm.
The weather has been great, sunny most of the morning and the afternoon and cloudy the rest of the time. We both agreed that we couldn’t have had better weather on day 1. We are going to cross the border tomorrow, so we’ll see if they let us in with all our possessions (they might think that we are trying to sneak into their country)! Yeah, right, like we would stay in the states when we have a house waiting in paradise! I got all our documentation out in anticipation of our crossing, Ross thinks it might be busy cause of July 4th. I guess we will have to see.
Oh yeah, while we were in the casino, Ross phoned an old buddy of his that he hasn’t seen for more than 30 years (he played in a band called Wizard with Ross), his name is Doug Freeman (bass player) so we planned for him to meet us here in the parking lot of the casino!
Talk to you soon!
July 3rd, 2009
It was so cool, we stayed in the casino parking lot last night and woke up at about 8:30 am and thought we would have a cheap breakfast at the casino. We walked up to the casino and found out it doesn’t open until 9:30, we had 10 minutes to wait so we just joined the few people in between the two sets of doors to wait. By the time 9:30 came there must have been at least 30 people waiting ( mostly older people), Ross and I both thought that there were sure a lot of die hard gamblers waiting for the doors to open. Once they were opened they all started running, again we thought they were running to find their favourite machine, but no, they were all running toward the restaurant, the breakfast was only $4.95. I guess this is how the seniors spend their mornings, waiting for cheap breakfasts, we guessed we were about to join them. You would be surprised that by the time we found a booth, all the tables were full and people were waiting for a table, wow!
We got out of Lethbridge without incident and were pleasantly surprised when the US border guards didn’t even inspect the RV, all Ross had to do was drive through a big building where they x-rayed the vehicle, we were stopped no more than 5 minutes, we are hoping the Mexican border will be the same.
While driving towards Butte Montana, we traveled through gorgeous mountain ranges and through a rain storm, there was a bit of lightning and thunder but not much. On some of the hills going up we ended up only going about 30 miles an hour, really slow. We found out that after the rainstorm our trailer lights started going funny. Ross would turn his left signal light on and his right one would flash, when he hit the brakes the back up camera came on even though it was switched off. We have unplugged the plug and we are hoping once it dries it will work properly. Getting the electrical checked on this beast will take forever! We have our fingers crossed that it will work in the morning.
Now we get to the fun part. Before we left home I had searched the internet looking for a couple of RV parks to help us out. When we were close to Butte, we plugged in the name of the RV Park we had decided on in the GPS and the RV Park we were looking at was actually on one of the choices on the GPS so we hit go. We followed the instructions and found it had directed us to a 2 lane road that looked like it went nowhere. Well it did, the paved road stopped and we ended up on a gravel road with nowhere to turn around, until we came upon a road that went on the diagonal. We tried to turn around there and ended up jackknifing the trailer, lucky for us there was a SUV waiting patiently for us, when we asked what was down the road farther she told us that there was a place to turn around up farther a bit. We headed down that way and finally got the rig turned around, in the mean time when we were talking with the lady in the SUV she told us that there were about 4 other people getting lost as the GPS didn’t have the right co-ordinates and she told us how to get to the RV Park. Earlier on in the day we had stopped at a gas station and bought some fireworks, the lady that sold them to us told us that Butte was a party town and we had decided that we might stay a couple of days since we thought it might be fun. We got turned around, found the RV Park (it’s yucky) and we are going to drive to Pocatello Idaho as planned! We stopped in too late for the people working in the office and on the door it said that they had wireless internet so we decided to stay, guess what, no internet, that’s why we are getting a few days of blog in one. Oh well, tomorrow is another day!
Talk to you soon
Ross and Kim
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