Exploring and Lookout City

I got up early – but had a good night sleep.

I was able to get a ride with some friends and we went exploring south of the PVD main camp.  We drove from the top of the pass from Trona to Panamint Valley on the old Nadu Road.  We got back to camp about 1:15 – Just in time to get ready for my next adventure.

After squaring away a driver that I can ride with, I started the drivers meeting, at least half if not more were new to PVD and of course new to the Lookout City Sunset run.

Our first stop was on the roadway to collect everybody after leaving camp.  When we were waiting for everybody we had a jet flying over us doing flybys – really COOL!  We had a total of 33 vehicles.

We even got back to camp in a very good time – good group!

While we were out we heard about a bad rollover from a non-event  group run on South Park, with bad injuries.  We all need to pray for the people in the rollover for a quick recovery.

Cheryl and Eric made it out in about four and half hours – traffic was good.

Time for bed, 6:30 will come early.

2008/05/05 – Monday – Rosie III

We got Rosie on Friday, but we had not time to work on it, so I opened it up today. Wow what a difference from the old Rosie – We got the Roomba 580

I got a phone call and a comment on my previous post from SVradioguy about not getting him into Stagecoach – we will invite him next time to be part of the group that dances.

I only had to get on the kids about getting the RV cleaned. They did start on the RV before I got home – so hurray, the promos did work. THE RV HAS BEEN CLEANED OUT – HURRAY!

Tonight I also worked on getting photos uploaded into Smugmug. Thursday I will work on posting for the family adventure and putting photos onto that.

2008/05/04 – Sunday – Better / Drive Home

Well the dog woke me up this morning wanting out. So take the dogs out and when I got back in I took a shower.

People started showing up at the RV about 9:00.

Amanda really wants us to stay until after 5:00 so she can watch Trace Adkins at 4:15. So after some negotiations and promises, I agreed.

Getting closer to our time to go on and perform, we were asked to meet behind the stage, so we all gathered and waited for our time.

We danced one tip and then dragged people from the audience to dance. It seemed everybody had fun.

After wards, I worked on get the RV ready. I was asked by several people that were passing by about the wind generator. I finally got the van loaded. Cheryl wants to get something to eat and meet some friends.

We ate and did some walking around but my feet were getting really tired. So back to the RV to get ready to leave, I got the satellite put away, and everything else outside put away. By the time I was about to get the RV turned around Amanda was back at the RV – happy to hear Trace Adkins!

We did stop at Flying J’s to dump and get fuel. We used a lot of gas running the generator this weekend. It caused my gas mileage to be 4.81 for that tank.

On the drive home we had lots of wind on our way out of the Palm Springs area. I did have to make s slight detour to meet a friend, but that was minor – the route was on a plausible route that I have taken before for getting home.

At home I fueled up and got 6.23 mpg, so that was not bad.

Now I just hope the promise that was made will be honored on Monday.

2008/05/02 – Friday – Travel – Frustration

I thought I might be able to get off work early but no so luck.

Cheryl got home late also. Once we got loaded, first stop was the bank, then dinner to go at BK.

The pick all the correct freeways – I was able to travel about 70 mph most of the way, which I am glad I did.

Once I got to the Stagecoach area it was impossible to find the location to pull into were we were going to be.

After trying to find a location to camp – I said screw it and park it and make it camp.

Come to find out I somehow clipped the back of the RV and broke a light off doing one of my many u-turns.

Well we are here and I will most likely not get a lot of sleep – so time to got bed and get at least 4 hours of sleep.