A chilling and walking the strip day in anticipation of New Year’s Eve. Bucket list item soon to be scratched off my list.
This must be an amazingly good Taco place based on the way long line ups.
Some sites around town..
We’re going to a show tonight, Piff the Magic Dragonwho we first saw and loved on America’s Got Talent. The show was super entertaining, with some “how did he do that?” thrown in.
Walking home after the show we encounter this bus
Mystery in Bailey!!! We keep finding silver, flecky, flecks on the floor. Many, seemingly never ending. We haven’t a clue what they are or where they come from but getting tired of picking them up.
Happy Anniversary to us! We got married in Las Vegas 24 years ago, lots of reminiscing going on 😊 So many wonderful (some not so), but way more wonderful have happened in this thing we call life.
One of life’s mysteries. How to you pronounce Zzyzx?
Closer we get the more traffic there is, don’t slow us down we want to get there!
Yes Piff! We’re going to see him.
Not going to see Gwen.
Staying at Circus Circus RV Park. Not to let anyone down, YES, we make the wrong turn. Where the heck is the RV section? We get turned around and voila!! We are here!
Puppy in the window.
Arrived noonish, got set up and heading out to walk the strip.
Silly us, we thought we would be wearing summer clothes.
We walked to the Luxor Hotel which is where we stayed on our honeymoon.
8:55a, 46,566k getting an early start cause today is the day we go to Costco. True to us it is a 5-minute drive from the RV camp, yet we still manage to take a wrong turn. Around a building we go… We do make it and thankfully the parking lot is relatively empty. We park in the back and stock up on stuff, back on the road at 11. Today’s destination is Bakersfield.
We opted to take the scenic old Pacific Coast Highway until we had to turn inland. We drive through several cute towns with extremely narrow main street. Allan gets to use his air horn for the first time. Scared the crap out of the lady who was inching onto our road without looking. Allan decides his nerves have had enough so now we head to the main highway, I5.
We have a choice to turn left into a marina, not for us, or right we can’t tell where that goes so right we go. Whoops, this is a military base, complete with an armed guard at the entrance. There is no way we can U-turn in the street. Turns out it’s Camp Pendleton’s housing area. Mary-Ann jumped out and sweet talked the guard into letting us drive in and turn around but not before he called for armed backup to make sure that was all we did. Got turned around and headed back to a safe I5. So happy to be back on the highway.
It’s getting late so we stop at the KOA in Bakersfield for the night. We did not expect it to be as cold as it was, little did we know it was just going to get colder.
We did Traegar dinner, relaxed by the fire and we anxious to get to Vegas.
Had lunch at the same restaurant the sleazy bar scene in Top Gun was filmed, Kansas City Barbeque. Unique place. Allan found a beer as good as RR, named Red Trolley, brewed in San Diego 😊
Beautiful sun filled day, unlike yesterday, off we go to Old Town San Diego using the trolley. Whoa!! in some areas the rails are so high you almost feel like you are flying. Old Town was much fun, looks like you are in a Mexican town. There were lots of “interesting” people some yelling louder than others. The stores are all touristy but that’s what we are so all is good.
We ate at the highly recommended, Café Coyote and were not disappointed.
Many seem to fly a flag at their RV site, we stumbled upon a flag store and bought Bailey’s first flag.
We walked around and came upon a bar, go figure!
We did consider going to Tijuana as the trolley takes you nearly there but didn’t want to take the chance of getting stuck in Mexico due to the unrest.
Such a fun day, now back to the trolley and home. Must admit it is colder than we thought it would be so got a good deal on these.
Finally, the rain stops, off we go for a walk to the liquor store, yep it’s opened here on Christmas Day to finally get some Bailey’s! Started raining again on our way back but we’re happy we have Bailey’s. We can now formally introduce Bailey to Bailey.
Allan did Traeger us a turkey Dinner was delicious.
A visitor to our park.
Ended up the evening in the hot tub. Love hot tubs 🙂
Travel day to our next park San Diego RV Resort in La Mesa, California. La Mesa is a suburb of San Diego.We selected this park because it is on the San Diego trolley line, we can hop on and go everywhere.
We leave at 9:25a, mileage 46,207k. Still need groceries so off to Walmart arrived 11:55a, back on the road again at 1:30p.
All of Bailey’s parts are working well. Such a nice change, but not as exciting. The drive was uneventfully picturesque. We travelled through Ripley, Blythe, Brawley, Ocotillo, Imperial and several more towns. Imperial and Ocotillo are wind turbine rich.
Arrive in La Mesa 3:40p. Super tight corners and our first back in site. Allan handled it like the pro he is. Nice sunny day.
Overnight what do our ears hear but pitter patter, splish splash not …
While we were gone, Tim Baker of Baker Mobile RV Repair made repairs for the issues we had last trip. Fingers crossed this trip is a bit less eventful mechanically.
Off we go…
Bailey is filthy! We can barely see out the windshield with the sunshine and the rear view camera total blur off to Blue Beacon Hand Truck Wash. Arrive at 8:50a several tractor trailers ahead of us but we need to be clean so we wait. Our first Holy Shit of the trip, weird sound coming from the back, rodent attempting to make its escape?? We see a flock of birds fly off – Solved birds on the roof not trapped between as it sounded like. Relief. Keep waiting. 10:11 yep over an hour wait and we’re up next…
Waiting our turn
Finally our turn
Looking out from in
And we’re clean now just to the drying station
Knight with a Knight
Finally off to Costco what were we thinking? Costco on the Saturday before Christmas – simply no room for Bailey in that parking lot.
A few photos from the drive
Arrived at Arizona Oasis shortly after 3:00p. Prepared Bailey, slides all worked wonderfully. Allan was so happy to be reunited with his Traegar. This is our appetizer, jalapeno stuffed with cream cheese. wrapped in bacon. Had hamburgers for dinner then relaxed in the hot tub. What will tomorrow bring?
A day of relaxation at Arizona Oasis RV Park. The park was nice enough except for the occasional sewage smell. Park says they are aware and are working on it. We walked to the local convenience store and purchased a PowerBall, let the dreams begin. During our walk we come across some cute signs. Had chuckles at the sign in the window but did heed the warning.
Arrived yesterday our final camp ground, Apache Junction for this trip. Allan’s project yesterday was to determine how the TV works (last camp ground had plug in cable, so easy peasy).
Up goes the antenna and the fun begins. All we get is static, snow snow snow. As it turns out the TV needs to be reprogrammed from Cable to Antennae. A quick scan of available channels and we are up and running.
Notice the raised antenna on the drivers side.
Now time to start packing up, first thing to do is stow the antenna, but wait, it does not want to stow. We keep getting blinking lights indicating that there is an obstruction. There is no obstruction. Read the manual, now know how to manually retract. The problem is it requires me going on the roof. Anyone who knows me, knows that I don’t like heights. Fortunately we have Coach-Net road side assistance so we eventually call. Service is on the way. I keep playing with it knowing the problem is it won’t turn, so it can’t stow. Finally it turns and yahoo it stows. Everything else closes as expected. Check out is 11:00 AM and it is 10:58, we made it.
We are only 1 hour away from the storage facility, need to stop for fuel and bleach for the holding tanks. Walmart and Love’s, here we come.
Arrive at the storage facility to find our code does not work to open the gate. just add this to another misadventure for the week. We get to our spot, plugin the 15 amp power to trickle charge the batteries. Still need to finish registrai0n for storage. Really nice people here. She sure looks a little tighter in here with the slides closed.
This weeks adventure took us through the following states.
Good night Bailey, will see you again in December 22 when this blog will start to be updated again.
who we first saw and loved on America’s Got Talent. The show was super entertaining, with some “how did he do that?” thrown in.
Many, seemingly never ending. We haven’t a clue what they are or where they come from but getting tired of picking them up.
Dinner was delicious.
