8/13 Touring around more in Vegas

After breakfast we were heading out for Walmart and pedicures. Dave asked me to stop at the office because he wanted to find out about getting a refund if we should leave early. When he got back in the jeep he was not a “happy camper”. They told him they don’t give refunds, what you paid for already is what you pay, oh crap, Dave doesn’t like to be told “No”. I said relax, we will stay until Wednesday and eat 2 days of parking, he said it was one day because it was “pay for 6 nights and get the 7th free” So if we leave Wednesday we lose the Wednesday night fee because Thursday was free, ok we can live with that, we have done much worse.

We headed for Walmart and pedicures, Dave loves pedicures so that should put him back in a good mood. His pedicure was done before mine so he even had a manicure, 1st time for him. After we were done we did a little shopping in Walmart, needed a card for someone, from our Mexico trip, they had died this morning, cancer.

After leaving we drove to the Strip and went to the Mirage Casino and walked around. There happened to be a cache on the top floor parking lot so we went there to find it and leave the last travelling bug we brought back with us. We did find it and left the bug.

I wanted to go to Circus Circus, because we haven’t been there in years. Once there we stopped and had something to eat then went and watched a Zumba Zumba act, free. There were 5 guys that had been on “America’s got Talent”, pretty darn good but a very fast act. (what do you want for free) There use to be acts going on all the time there, not no more, things have really changed.

After leaving there we headed back to the RV. Relaxed, I finished my 4th book, then got on the computer. Dave had been on his computer the whole time and watching the news. Next thing I know he says, I’ll be right back, and out the door he goes. He comes back 15 minutes later and says “we are leaving in the morning” and I said “WHAT”? He said he had gone to the office and we are now getting our money back. (I think they just wanted him gone) Dave is hating this heat so bad, he just doesn’t realize that Bakersfield is just as hot. He does know it is hot in Bakersfield too but at least there we don’t have an RV we are stuck in, a house you can move around. I don’t blame him, I can handle heat a lot better then he can, but these RV’s are not made for snow or heat waves, that’s why they have wheels, hit the road and find the weather you like.

We met up with our nephew, Michael Tomaselli, for dinner at Carrabba’s and had a very nice dinner. Loved visiting with him, can’t imagine being in his neck of the woods and people would call and come by and visit him, but yes, some relatives have done that, sorry for them it’s their loss.

After dinner Dave and I came back to the RV, called friends of ours, and while on the phone got an email that my cousin had died the  day before of skin cancer. No one had known he was sick, he hadn’t been in touch with any family members since our uncle, his Dad, had died, which is going on 4 years now. I should really say he lost contact with the family, except, once in a while, with our uncle, 20 years earlier. Long story not worth going through.

Tomorrow we are headed out to Bakersfield, still need to go to an RV park until we get set-up with electrical for the RV  at the kids house. So maybe we can move the RV to Kim’s Thursday, let us hope so.

8/12 Hanging out in Las Vegas

Dave cleaned the front windows and put up the window shades. We put the window shades up on the inside of the windows but it just isn’t enough to keep some of the heat out. So now we have the inside, outside and the driving shades down in the windows to try and cool things down. He managed to wash some of the RV off too, in this heat.

After breakfast, of bagels, we went shopping at Walmart. We are out of milk, bread, drinks, water ect. the refrig. is almost empty. We shopped and even got seat covers for the jeep, the heat is just way too much. At least with seat covers and a steering wheel cover we don’t get burnt when we get in it. Same thing happens in Arizona so we really need it.

We came back to the RV to unload our shopping then headed into downtown Vegas. We went in search of my nephew, Michael’s, new store he has just taken over. Bath and Body Works. Nice place but small, he even said the last store he was at was double this size, but it does one hell of a business, which is good for him. We visited for a little while, decided to meet up on Monday night for dinner. Dave and I then headed out for Old Town Las Vegas, Fremont Street, I believe. That was nice to see again, street vendors, mimes, magicians, beggars. Hay, we were out of the heat. We had a 99 cent shrimp cocktail and a Bloody Mary, both were are joke.

We then came back to the RV and kicked back before heading back to Sam’s Town for dinner. 4pm we headed to Sam’s Town for our “endless tacos and enchiladas” and “bottomless Margaritas” hey it was $9.99. Tacos and enchiladas were pretty good, chips and salsa too, can’t say too much for the margaritas, don’t think they put any tequila in them.

After the late lunch early dinner we went gambling a little, we are not much at throwing away money, I know we should have a positive attitude maybe that would help. We just aren’t much on gambling anymore. Dave lost all his but I walked away ahead, and that is all that matters. Had a little fun and didn’t lose it all this time.

Back to the RV to watch the closing of the Olympics. Our plans may change again, Dave is getting tired of Vegas so we now be headed out on Wednesday. It all depends on if we can get into a show on Tuesday night, if we can’t we may be out of here on Tuesday. We have seen enough houses and until we get pre-approval it isn’t doing us any good to keep looking. They are out there and we won’t have any problems finding one once we are ready.

8/11 House Hunting in Henderson

Since I had gone to bed so early I had a really hard time sleeping. Finally got up at 4:30am and had a slight headache and was a little hungry. I grabbed 1/2 bagel and just a little bit of peanut butter. We have no bread, yogurt ect. we have got to go shopping. I was feeling pretty good but still going to take the motion sickness pills today.

It was actually pretty cold in the RV this morning but by 7:30am it was 96 degrees. We have an appointment with the real estate agent at 10am. I know I said yesterday that it was just too hot outside to cook but it would be different if we owned a house. It’s just the RV or any RV can’t handle heat like that.

Took my pills and had breakfast. We have had a steak out so Dave fixed it up for breakfast before it got too hot outside. Was really good too, steak and eggs for breakfast.

Met up with the real estate agent, Maryann, and talked for a little while. We looked up a few more properties because the ones we wanted to see have already sold or have too many bids on them. We found 1 that I could love in a heart beat. $170,000 and it’s a short sale that fell through. We need a pre-approved letter before any agent can approach with a bid. Too bad because that short sale had so much land but would need a lot of love and care. They had converted the garage into a room, badly done, it had a secrete room we couldn’t get into but it had a built in outdoors kitchen, which is something Dave loves. So the next thing to do is get pre-approved. This house even had a gym room off the master bedroom, like we have in Cornville. Darn, Darn, Darn, that would have been great, if we are lucky it will be on the market for a while, it does have a lot of electrical stuff that is illegal.

After looking at some places we went back to the office and talked a little more then headed out to look at some properties that the agents hadn’t called us back on to look at. We then stopped at Fiesta Henderson Casino to have lunch. Trying to get back on a regular schedule. After lunch we looked at another place then back to the RV. I was getting really sleepy, after last night, but feeling good. So not sure if it is the motion pills or food but like I said earlier will keep taking the pills and eating so see if that helps. Dave is to the point of leaving and getting me back to California and see if there maybe something wrong with me. Maybe it just missing the grand babies and my mind is making me sick, who the heck knows.

Got a nap in and still feeling fine, not as hot today, maybe 110 instead of 115, 5 degrees is a big difference.  We went over to Sam’s Town for the buffet dinner, Prime Rib, cut to order, and shrimp every Saturday for the month of August. Dave loves his prime rib. After that we watched the light show at Sam’s then drove back to the RV. We had our own light show going on in the sky in Vegas. Thunder and lighting, some rain but not much. 11pm and it was bedtime. The RV was cool enough that I even got out a blanket for me during the night.

8/10 Las Vegas RV Resort

After breakfast, at Walmart, I was walking around the RV when I noticed the awning on the bedroom slide torn. They one and only awning we hadn’t taken off before the Alaska trip because it looked like it was in pretty good shape. Ends up it isn’t torn just unstitched, Dave said. After taking the trash out I looked up at the RV and thought I don’t remember seeing all those wires before. I went and got Dave and he said that’s where are A/C Cover should be. It was pretty windy on our drive to Vegas so must had lost it then, hope no one was behind us. I think if they had been we would have heard about it. We left Wal-Mart and we were only 25 minutes away from the Resort so we went straight there and got set up. We turned the air on and after a little while the breaker would trip so the a/c wouldn’t stay on. Dave called Camping World and they had an a/c cover so we drove over there to buy it.

After we left Camping World we drove over to the area where the real estate lady had sent us some houses to look at, wanted to see the area. It is kind of like where we are now in Cornville, away from the city but only a 5 to 10 minutes driving to everything.

We drove back to the RV and the breaker had tripped again, 114 degrees, not that the RV can battle that kind of temperature but we need to have something. Dave had to go up on the roof right away and put the cover on. After resetting the A/C’s we headed over to Sam’s Town. Need to get out of the heat so we decided to go see the movie Hope Springs. We got a large popcorn, candy and large soda. Before we had left I must have downed so far that day about 70 oz. of soda. The popcorn had lots of butter, stupid me kept eating it. The movie was very disappointing, thought it would be funnier. Steve Carell was very disappointing for sure. I could see myself in both of the characters which was very sad. Poor Dave, how he puts up with my shit. Bitch on wheels, no punt intended. We fight almost everyday lately, no nice words to each other. It just might have something to do with we have been 25/7 for the last 4 months, I think we both need a break. Anyway, I have got to work on this because it is all my fault. Enough said, had to get that off my chest.

After leaving the movies we drove to The Home Depot to get nuts and bolts for the a/c cover. I started feeling really sleepy, I just wanted to go back to the RV and relax. I laid down in the bedroom for awhile, the DVR wouldn’t work because the heat had made it too hot for the box, no TV. Can anything go right for us. After awhile we changed into our bathing suits to cool off in the pool. It’s 115 outside and 97 inside the RV. After we had gotten out Dave said let’s go back to the RV, have a drink then go to Sam’s Town to have a light dinner. It is just too hot to cook at the RV. I stood up then it hit me, the nauseate I started throwing up and couldn’t stop. Thank goodness no one else was at the pool. After I was done, which all it was was popcorn and butter, I felt better. Dave cleaned it off and we walked back to the RV. We changed clothes and I just didn’t feel right, wasn’t like I needed to throw up again. We went to Sam’s and I drank 2 7up’s to try and settle my stomach. We went to TGI Fridays and I had a dinner salad and could only eat about half of that. Dave at least got a really good dinner. I feel so bad about all this throwing up I’m doing.

I remembered I hadn’t taken the motion sickness pills that morning and that was the 1st time I hadn’t since Leavenworth. Alana, in Spokane, had said that maybe I have an inter ear infection and that’s what is throwing off my equilibrium. When I take the motion pills that helps me, I wonder if that could be true. Anyway, we came back to the RV and I went straight to bed, 8:30pm. It felt like I had the flu, I was freezing one minute then sweating another.  114 degrees and I wanted a sweatshirt to wear. Around 9:30 it had subsided and I was feeling better but was going to stay in bed.

Tomorrow, I’m going back to the motion pills until we get to Bakersfield. When I stop taking them again and if I should get sick again then I’ll go to the doctors.

8/9 Long Driving Day

We went into Walmart to the McDonalds there for breakfast. Got on the road by 8am. Long, long driving day, flat lands, brown, cactus just beautiful. Nothing to report today.

Landed at a Walmart on Nellis Blvd in Las Vegas, 106 degrees at 7pm.

Will get set-up in an RV Resort on 8/10.

Sorry boring day, not even any animals to see.

8/8 Heading towards Las Vegas, Nevada

After fueling up it was probably 8:30am when we got on the road. We have about a 18 hour drive to Las Vegas. I know friends of ours, Vaugh and Linda, who we stayed with in Wasilla, would make that drive in 1 day but not us we are going to make it in 3. 2 nights in different Wal-Marts, 3 driving days. We share the driving, so that helps Dave a lot. As long as I don’t have to drive through big cities I’m OK, to tell the truth, if I had to drive through big cities I could do it, just wouldn’t like it. I drive slow but don’t care what the people behind me think. I can take them out a lot faster then they can take me out.

These drives now are a lot different then what we had been doing the last 2 months. We are back to flat land, farm land, cattle and lots of hay fields, wonderful loving it. We kind of got tired of seeing only mountains, glaciers, waterfalls ect. You know just give us a few days of what we are seeing now and we will want the other stuff back.

We stopped in Caldwell, Idaho in a Walmart. It’s only for the night so why pay for RV  parking at $30 plus a night. We dumped everything this morning, gray and black, so we are good to go for a few days. All laundry is done so could, if we had to, last another week without doing laundry.

At 5:30pm Dave got on the phone to attend another Habitat for Humanity BOD meeting. While he was on the phone I went into Wal-Mart to shop and look around. I must say they have some strange looking people at this Wal-Mart, but then again I think that of every Wal-Mart we go to.

It’s warm here but have the generator running and the air conditioning is on and it is very comfortable. Watching the Olympics again and back on the road again tomorrow. I believe we will stop again at some Wal-Mart in Nevada, but not sure.

8/7 Touring around Spokane

Wasn’t feeling sick again, YEA. We had breakfast then headed out to Wal-Mart to have hair cuts. Our hair has grown so much that it will be nice to have it cleaned up again. We had to wait almost an hour for our cuts so we walked around the outside of Wal-Mart and looked for some geocaches, with no luck.

After having the hair all cut off we headed into downtown Spokane. It was lunchtime so we went to Azteca Mexican restaurant to have some margaritas and nachos. They had a $3 lunch time margarita which wasn’t too bad they also served you salsa, refried beans and nice warm chips to start off with. We then ordered the nachos supreme, which were very good.

After munching we went looking for geocaches in the park. We found one and put one of the travelling bugs in it that we got in Alaska. We will put the other bug in Las Vegas. We had found 2 travelling bugs in Alaska, wanted to plant them in Canada but had no luck in finding any caches in Canada. We then came back to the RV and cooled off, 100 degrees so coming back into the air conditioning was nice. Sat and watched Olympics before dinner.

At 5pm we went to Red Lobster to meet up with Alana and Christy. Boy, we had all our travel plans mixed up. Don’t ask. Needless to say we got to see Christy and Alana before we left. Will have to plan another trip out here so we can stay a couple weeks at the house on the river and see everyone.

Went to the Verizon store after dinner and got Dave another plug for his phone, the one in the car isn’t working. Then back to the RV.

Heading out tomorrow for Las Vegas, will take a few days to get there. Will probably stop in Boise, Idaho tomorrow at a Wal-Mart.