We had quite a wind storm overnight, the whole rig shook and woke me up. Tucker seems to be better!?? He slept the whole night without having to go out or puking in the house. Things are looking up. Val didn’t go to her exercises today as she needed a rest. We went to Blythe to the grocery store to get some food for Tucker and milk for us. I also got a haircut while in town then we came home. We read for a while then Val made dinner consisting of salad & shrimps; delicioso! The wind picked up again in the evening.
Tucker had the runs again early this morning but at least this time, it was only once but the good or bad news is that we found what we believe to be the head of a tick just above his eye. It looks quite embedded in there so we will take him to a vet Tuesday as this is a holiday week-end! He did eat his food which is good, I think!? Sunny and a light wind this morning. I BBQ’ed two steaks and we had that with a salad and baked potato; delicious!
After calling and talking with the kids this morning and wishing them a HAPPY EASTER DAY, we drove to Parker and visited with Tammy and Bill & Al and Brenda. The rest of the gang left a few days ago and we missed Tim and Kim; they left this morning and we missed them by one hour. We had a very nice visit with the four of them. They are staying in La Paz County Park where we stayed the last time we were here. After we left them, we went to a new bar next door called “Pirate’s Den”. A really neat place and we had a couple beers and burger which was big and marvellous. The scenery was great too! It is built on the Colorado River and bikinis abounded which my old eyes couldn’t feast enough on...Ahhhhhhh, to be young again!!!
Anyway, we paid our bill and came back to our Campground. It was a great day and we are glad we did it, it broke the boring routine here. It was a cloudy and hot day too; 94*F (33*C). I took Tucker for his evening walk and his stool was much more normal; he was also much livelier today.
Well, I believe this was the hottest day yet...36* C in the shade! Val did laundry and I packed some of our stuff and also got propane for the BBQ and one bottle for the “Beast”
The A/C is on full blast and having a hard time cooling the rig. We spent the day mainly inside, away from the heat. I checked out on Google Earth a couple routes I am thinking of taking home and finished another book, “POWER DOWN” by Ben Coe. An excellent writer and I recommend it anyone. He is much like Vince Flynn and as a matter of fact, I heard about Coe from Flynn’s website. Now I am reading “Coup d’état” from Coe, his second book.
We left at 10:30 am and already, it is 80*F. We headed East on I-10 then north-east on Hwy 60 to Salome. Just before Salome, we entered Desert Vista RV Park, an ENCORE Park. We are here under AOR and paid $77 for 6 nights. We hit it right as they are having a hamburger appreciation cook-out for free. The park is soon closing and there is hardly anyone here. We attended the dinner and met a couple of people; sounds like this place is quite popular in the winter with ATV people.
The wind has picked up but it is still very hot; 31*C @ 6 pm.
Alt: 1920 ft
We drove 54 miles in one hour and 10 minutes driving time @ an average 47mph. We stopped once for about 10 minutes.
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