Where Are We Today
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| Info about Alamo Lake Dam |
Carrying
on from my last post, we arrived at Alamo Lake State Park and got settled in on
lot B-17 with Rob and Pat on B18. We are only here for two nights, but will
enjoy the time here.
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| Three buddies checking out the scenery |
On Friday the 16th, we took Rob and Pat up to the Alamo
Lake Dam to take in the view. Leaving there, we headed out to the Wayside Oasis. It is a trailer park
out in the middle of nowhere, with a bar/restaurant and generators for power.
It was late morning, so we sat at the bar and order some coffee, sat back, took
in the ambiance and chatted with the waitress about the place.
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| Wayside Oasis |
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| Inside the Cafe/Bar at the Wayside Oasis |
We
left the next day, to our next destination, Ridgeview RV Resort, in Bullhead
City, Arizona. Instead of heading to Hwy 95, we back tracked to Hwy 71 to Hwy
93 to I-40 and finally Hwy 68 into Bullhead City.
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| Joshua Tree Forest |
The best part of this trek, was Hwy 93, again
with ups and downs and gentle curves ,
but you drive through the Joshua Tree Forest, absolutely amazing. One thing
though, make sure you have a full tank of fuel, as there is only one place to
get fuel on this 110 mile stretch of road.
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| Arriving at Ridgeview RV Resort |
Arriving
early afternoon, we checked in, got our choice of sites, eight and nine, backed
in up against a hill with a view down the road, looking across the Colorado
River into Laughlin Nevada, at all the casinos.
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| Our buddies leading the way |
When
Pat went to open up the bedroom slide, she got it part way out and the bottom
cable broke, the first cable, the top one, broke when we were in Memphis. We
have been trying to nurse it along until we got to a more populated area. The
bottom one had been replaced a little over a year ago.
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| This is what they are suppose to look like |
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| Here is a broken one |
Rob
came over and between the two of us we exposed where the pulleys are and
managed to get the slide all the way out. After determining what we needed to
try and attempt the repair ourselves, we headed for Home Depot in the morning
and purchased some cable, clamps and eye bolts.
A
big thank you to Rob for his insight, thoughts, ideas and time, as this is not a
one person job.
On a
lighter side, Rob and I, each purchased an inexpensive CB radio to communicate
while driving from destination to destination. We took part of Tuesday to
install them in our trucks.
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| CB installed |
While
that should bring you up to speed from my side of things, be sure to keep
following Pat's blog,here here, to see what we're up to.
Until
the next time, take care and be safe, comment if you like.
