Where's Toto?

OK so I arrived in Kansas. I lost two hours on time zone changes, so I am not hungry at 6 pm, but that makes no sense. I didn’t eat anything today! Wait….two donuts from the motel this morning. Very stale. Very tasty. Very sweet.

So I’m not cooking yet anyway. So there!

Starting at the conclusion, it was so much better to be setting up the pop-up for a multi-day stay. I think it sucks to be sweating through the set up just to get to the fridge to go to bed to break down. This is more like home building. TV on in the background. Fan trying to make a difference. All in all, comfortable.

Back to the beginning.

Last night when I saw Alamosa, after the long ride, I didn’t need more issues. However, the ridge, which should have been cooling on the ride on electric, wasn’t. It was like a nice little oven. I was unsure whether all the food was trash, so I grabbed the folding portable ice-chest we got as a free gift for a bank account and stuffed everything in it. Then I went looking for an ice machine. None to be found. This motel has seen better days. Way better. But I went to the office, and they had an ice chest full of ice. Grabbed a plastic ice bucket and dumped the ice in the chest and tried to make a salad. The head I picked, butter lettuce I think, was slimy and as I tried to rinse it, it fell apart. This is making me hungry so I just started some rice. Hope I remembered right - 1 rice to 2 waters for 10 minutes.

Where was I?

Oh the food… I added Ice this morning, and found the coffee pot and left the food in the ice chest and headed out.

One mountain, but not like yesterday. Lots of hours. Met a guy who used to live in Cuyacuos (near me in CA) at a gas station when I asked him the time and he got chatty. Wanted to know if McClintocks was still in Arroyo Grande, and is Bob’s Big Boy still there and …

Killed a fly. I hate flys.

Now…Oh yeah, I am out of the mountains and the miles seem so much faster when you are on a flat road. 10 minute construction delay, a wrong turn onto a freeway that took 10 miles to get off and turn around, but other than that, uneventful.

The RVParkReviews.com (I think that’s it) I read last night about this place were worrisome. On the highway. Lots of junky mobile homes. Not well kept. But it was what was here so I persisted. It’s great. Has TV and power and water and sewer and showers and I’m just peachy.


OK – Terry has all the TV/VCR/DVD/clocks reset from the power failure, and I have a phone book for tomorrows research. Dishes to wash and bed.

Enough?