March 8 to 11, 2010; Pahrump, Nevada

MAR 8, Monday, Pahrump, Nevada
Val went for exercises first thing this morning and after showering, I went to register as the office was closed when we arrived yesterday. Paid $78 for 14 days and picked up our mail. The Delorme PN 40 that I ordered from E-Bay was here waiting so guess what I did the rest of the morning!? Set it up of course!
We went to town and did the laundry and picked up a few groceries in the afternoon. We got an e-mail from friends that we were supposed to meet here, that they won’t be coming. Too bad we didn’t know sooner as we would have stayed in the Indio valley. Oh well...such is life!
It was a nice day but got windy later in the afternoon. We got a movie that we watched in the evening.


MAR 9, Tuesday, Pahrump
Can you believe this, we woke up to snow!!!! Yes SNOW but I guess it is appropriate as we left Canada to find ourselves in snow in South Dakota and here we are on the way home, and more snow! (There is humour there, I think!???) We got our mail today which I picked up at the office. Tucker loved the snow. Got a picture of Val going for her exercises. (See Picasa link)

Anyway, it finally stopped around noon and it turned out sunny but still fairly cool and windy. The good news is that it is to improve by the end of the week!?
We went caching in the hills around Pahrump in the afternoon and ended up at a VFW (legion) hall where we had a beer before coming home. We found 5 caches in all!


MAR 10, Wednesday, Pahrump
After Val’s exercises and taking Tucker for his morning walk, I went to the local RV dealer to see about replacing the window in the entertainment slide as it allows a lot of cold air to come in. It is an “escape exit” however there is one just across in the living room area. They wanted $485 US so I went to a local window business and the guy came out to see what was required. He suggested trying to install weather stripping so we will try that first. He will be back tomorrow.
We went to Albertson and Wal-Mart then found a neat cache; it was called the “Railway underground”, don’t know why but anyway we had to go inside Wal-Mart to Subway and ask for the cache. Once you signed, you got a cookie for free so we decided to buy a sandwich for lunch while we were there. Pretty cool, don’t you think!?
We had excitement in the park later in the day; the winery next to us was having some kind of party and 11, yes eleven, helicopters came in and landed in the parking lot and the landing pads next to it. It was pretty exciting and lots of speculation as to whom they were.
Very windy today and cold again, only got to 50*F (10*C).


MAR 11, Thursday, Pahrump
Since the window guy is supposed to return today, we stuck around. We did go to town for about an hour and found 4 more caches then came home just in time for the window guy to arrive. He suggested and showed me a different way to seal the three escape windows so I gave him the go ahead to order the material; it was still cheap in price.
Val went out with Janette, neighbours of ours and a lady she goes to exercises with, to the Winery to check out their restaurant and prices. They are fairly cheap and they have a good variety so we may try it later in the week.
It was a sunny day and warming up nicely. It’s supposed to go up to 75 and higher by the end of the week!?