Today was a big spending day. Harold was up early to take the truck into the shop just down the road to have a new oil pan put in. We’d been warned there was a potential leak in it when we were at home, but we weren’t noticing any oil drips and we were quoted […]
Month: April 2014
I used to watch Kitchen Nightmares, but I’ve never seen the episodes that included his most infamous restaurant owners, Samy and Amy Boulzago of Amy’s Baking Company in Scottsdale, AZ. I did however, manage to be around while they were having their first Facebook shoutdown and have watched videos of them on TMZ and others. My brother […]
With the temperature sticking in the high 90’s until at least the middle of next week, we decided to opt for an RV park in Phoenix instead of dry camping at the Lone Butte Casino. There is just no way we can leave the dogs for any amount of time to visit non-dog-friendly places without […]
Arriving in Quartzsite, AZ a few hours after sunset made it hard to see where we were going once we got outside the town limits. We had chosen to stay at Scaddan Wash, a 14 day limited free camping area on the BLM lands, just a few blocks east of town. I had run through it […]
We drove south to Bakersfield where we stayed at the local Costco for the night. On the pro side for staying at Costco, it closes early, and then we were the only ones in a private lot. It was very quiet and felt very safe. On the con side, we had to wait until the […]
Lodi, (pronounced Low-dye), situated just south of Sacramento, is known as the “Zinfandel Capital of the World”, the Creedence Clearwater Revival song “Lodi” and the location of the Sons of Anarchy series. Since Zinfandel (the red Zinfandel, not that soda-pop pink stuff!) is one of my two favorite wines, we had to stop and do […]
We did a final check of our fridge just moments before handing it over to Camping World, and wouldn’t you know it … it worked! So we saved our cash, and headed on down the road, hoping it continues to work. We figured it must have been Harold cleaning up the connections and then a […]
“I wonder if the fridge is running? Maybe we need to go catch it too.” Had I seriously just uttered those exact words in jest? Famous last words that came back to bite us less than 24 hours later. Ask me again, that silly old kid’s joke: “Is your fridge running?” and I’ll answer you with […]
The best jokes are those whose punch lines come from a completely unexpected direction, or aren’t even jokes. Google’s best April Fools joke was back in 2004 when they released Gmail on April Fools day. Nobody believed it. It had to be a joke. No way would any company give away email accounts with 1,000 […]
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac When you’re on vacation, you usually only have a few weeks, so you rush out, spend a ton of hours driving somewhere, see some sights, then get back on the […]