Snow in the Mountains near Salt Lake City

Our Trip Home!

Apr 26^th – 30^th...We aired up our tires when leaving the rv park and were on the road around 730a. We made a fuel stop north of Vegas and drove 372 miles to Payson, UT. We overnighted at the Walmart (actually it was a Starbucks across the road that had closed). The Walmart parking lot was pretty full! On Sat. the 27^th we drove 420 miles to Dillon with a fuel stop in Idaho Falls. We intended to wash the motorhome in Dillon so we drove into town before going to the rv park. When getting to the car wash we realized the steps/landing they had was not tall enough so that we could wash the roof....so since the wind was blowing & rain was predicted we decided not to wash it. We went back 4 miles to the Countryside RV park and spent the night. We drove home on Sunday via Twin Bridges and intersected with I15 at Boulder. We arrived at the condo around 130p. Then the fun began...unpacking! Five hours later we finally had most of the stuff out but not put away. The worst part was thing that we may be doing this plus more all again if we sell or lease the condo. We had everything pretty much done by Monday evening. We decided to leave the motorhome at the condo until the 1^st since the temp was in the 20's on Mon & Tue. We also had a hard time finding a storage location for the MH. Dick's RV park, where we have stored it for 5 years, was full. We moved it to the Sportsman Storage that is just about a mile down 36^th (across from the watertower). It will be nice to have it closer to the condo.  

Mike @ the Hofbrauhaus in Las Vegas

The Hofrauhaus - design to look like the original in Munich, Germany

 Lunch @ the Oatman Hotel...check out the walls!

The Burros in Oatman...Mama & Baby

Bullhead City/Laughlin & Las Vegas

Apr 14^th - 26^th ...The 62 mile trip to Bullhead City, AZ was good. We fueled up at Sams Club in Bullhead and killed sometime in the store as we could not check into Ridgeview RV park until noon. We got a site facing north so the sun wouldn't be as bad. The park is not very full as Rvers are heading north. We decided to stay 9 nights instead of 14 due to the hot weather coming. While there we went to a couple of  Laughlin casino's to listen to some live music...Tropicana on Monday evening, Riverside on Wed. afternoon and the Avi on Sat. evening. We also went to the outlet mall a couple of times. On Fri. the 19^th we drove 35 miles to Oatman where we met Dad and Elaine for lunch. Oatman is an old mining town that is on old Route 66. Several Burros roam the streets that house several gift shops. We watched the 'shoot out' at noon and then had a good lunch at the Oatman Hotel. The restaurant/bar is wallpapered in dollar bills that customer have been putting up for many, many years. The guy that was singing during lunch also told the history of Oatman...very interesting! We managed to leave without purchasing anything but a few 'rocks' for Dixie's jewelry making. The weather while in Bullhead was pretty windy and cooler for quite a bit of the time. The last few days were HOT.

On the 23^rd we drove 89 miles to Las Vegas...it was very, very windy most of the way. We had to stop a couple of times to secure the awning as it wanted to pull away from the motorhome. We had cross winds on 163 and then went into the wind on 95. We stopped at Camping World in Henderson to buy some replacement step covers and while there we asked it they re-strung window shades. They didn't but they gave us a name of a local 'mom & pop' that did. We checked into Duck Creek Rv Park (Passport) around 1130a. The sites at the park were very short so we had to move a couple of times. We were given different info by different staff – when it was all said and done the gave us a card for a free night stay (it really wasn't that big of a deal). We called the guy that fixed the window shades and since he was able to do them we decided to stay 3 nights instead of 1 so we could get them fixed. We had to take them down and take them to his house (a bit of a job). It was a bit pricy ($130 for 2 shades) but seems to be the going rate and not something we were willing to tackle. We made a couple of trips to Trader Joes to stock up. On Thursday we picked up the shades and then drove down 'The Strip' and had lunch at the famous Peppermill Restaurant/Lounge. We also made a stop to see the Hofbrauhaus. It is a replica of the original one in Munich Germany that we went to in the early 90's with Roger & Merlene (was it 93 Merlene?). Of course while we were there Mike had an $8 beer – I don't recall the prices being that high in Germany..haha! We went back home and got the window shades back together and hung back up...that was a job! We will start our trek home on Friday!

Mike & Jack enjoying their Lake view from VanVoast's deck

Lake Havasu RV Park - our last week in LHC

Apr 8^th - 13^th ...On the 8^th we said goodby to Campbell Cove RV park but not before we paid $105 in electricity for the past month! We moved 4 miles down London Bridge Road to Lake Havasu Rv park (Coast-to-Coast membership pk). Unfortunately we have no WIFI at our site so we go to the clubhouse or use FoxFi with Dixie's phone.

On Tues. afternoon we went to Elaine's to' doggie' sit Nico for that evening and Wed. Dad and Elaine went to Las Vegas.  All went well with Nico and Dixie cooked dinner for all on Wed. We drove around to scope out more houses but decided to not look at the inside of anything else for the time being.

Thur. morning Dixie and Elaine went to a brunch hosted by Dillards for the women of the Moose. We had a nice brunch and fun checking out the makeup and lingerie. That afternoon Elaine hosted a 'Wig' party. We had lots of fun trying on all kinds of wigs...being the hair person I am, I had to purchase one!

Friday we decided we were running out of time and we must file our Income Taxes (they were done online a few weeks ago but we had to hit the button to send them)....that hurt a lot – not hitting the button but paying the $$$!!!!!

On Sat. morning we went to Elaine/Dads where Dixie cut their hair as well as Judy S. wigs! We later went back and took fixings for Taco's.  It is our last night in Lake Havasu City. It is once again in the 90's and getting too hot to sit outside. We move to Bullhead City tomorrow where it will be just as warm with a forecast for upper 90's starting late next week!  It just might be time to start moving north!!!!