5-15-09 Friday (Catching Waves)

Amazingly enough, we’ve been on the road for 8 months so far. Generally, we have the same routine for travel and set up. Sure, it’s been tweaked along the way, but it’s been done so many times that we don’t even use our checklist. There’s 2 things we check at each stop - latch the coach door and latch the fridge. Today, we forgot about the fridge. Just a few miles down the road, BAM, the fridge door flew open, 3 containers of Crystal Lite fall to the floor, 2 are spewing iced tea all over the place. 4 bottles of Diet Coke plummet to the floor and roll around. I jump up and run to the back. The liquids are dumping out. I snatch the open containers up. During the turns and driving, the fluids are frolicking in waves on the floor. Damn, under the slide. Damn, down the hallway. I grab 4 beach towels and throw them at different waves…. was that a fish that swam by? No, it was a container of pineapples, in Gladware. Whoops!

Yesterday, we called a Walmart that would be on the way to Bisbee to make sure they could do an oil change on the RV. Some won’t do it, some will. The location in Casa Grande agreed to do it. We arrived, checked in with the lube center and pulled into the shop. They allowed us to sit in the RV and have lunch while they performed the oil change. This was pretty cool. This probably wins for strangest lunch location, and trust me, if you’ve been reading the blog since day 1, you’d know we’ve had some unusual and sometimes creepy lunch spots.

Above: See the tires through the door window?

Above: As we ate lunch, we had an excellent view of the next quick lube lane.

Above: Dasher panting after his walk.

Above: Dasher lays on the floor between Jim and I while the RV is in motion.

We had to stop at another Walmart as we neared Bisbee. The first one had zero Sam’s Choice Diet soda and didn’t have the cheap paper towels we like. Not happy. We bought plenty at the second Walmart and found the paper towels too. Yay!

We arrived at David’s Oasis. It’s “OK” but I’m not sure if we’ll be staying longer than planned. There’s a lot of wild animal warnings here so we were advised to carry a stick and keep the dog close. Great. We have met another couple tonight: Carl & Fred. We may sight see with them tomorrow. Who knows what time we’ll be up though, it’s now 1:30am. Oh and the view outside the windshield is cool. We can see Agua Prieta, Mexico and Douglas, AZ. The lights and mountains in the distance are pretty. The stars are beautiful. I’ve never seen so many! We gazed at them while in the hot tub. I saw 3 shooting stars. The sky is gorgeous and I’m tired!