"Honey I'm Home"

Well we've done it. After leaving Las Vegas we made it as far as Tonopah Nevada. We spent the night in a free RV parking lot. The next morning we left headed toward Reno, Nevada. Of course we had to stop at Costco. We've been gone 2 1/2 months and before we left we cleaned anything out of the fridge that would go bad and had to restock. When we left, Diesel was $4.98 a gallon. During our absence fuel prices started dropping and The cheapest we came across was $3.16. I apologize but we have been home two weeks and I have posted the entire return trim this morning 11/8/08 from about 4:30 AM till 11:30 AM. I woke up early and decided to get it posted and over with. I told Roxanne that next time she gets the blog duty.
I have to say that being gone was something we always wanted to do but being back home isn't so bad. I suspect that we will sometime in the future start get the urge to "Get outta Dodge" but until then we have plenty to keep us occupied. A special thanks to Matthew, Philip and Michelle. We got home and found fresh tire marks on our road. After checking it out I find that they came over and cut down trees. Bucked them up, split the wood and stacked it in my wood shed. WOW! That was huge! We are now cleaning up in preparation for winter. Burning pine needles and doing stuff that needs doing. I hope you enjoyed our travels as much as we did. Please feel free to leave comments or forward emails to us at workerb@citlink.net
We will see you on our next trip.
John & Roxanne

Las Vegas -- AGAIN

We left Arizona headed for home. My new Fedora hat is really handy in this sunny part of the world. Chad is at school and Jen is showing us the city. Jen took us to the Bellagio Casino. Everything there is over the top. There are two pictures of white and dark chocolate dripping from top to bottom. Afterward Jen took us by Chad's dental school. Timmy and Maddy have made friends. Timmy thinks Maddy would make a fine momma for his puppies. Timmy tried and tried and you could almost hear Maddy laughing and saying what do you think you are going to do with THAT!!! Needless to say Maddy was going to have no part of THAT and after awhile they agreed to be "Just Friends" Heard that before. We decided to stay till morning and we went to just one yard sale. That turned into several and before you know it we didn't leave Las Vegas till 1PM. Next stop HOME.

Hackberry Arizona on Route 66

We left Roswell New Mexico this morning headed for home. We are taking side trips along the way to check out Route 66. We found Hackberry Arizona. This place is awesome. Everything is in the open and you can walk up to it and pick it up. In the back was an automotive garage. All tools and test gear is in place. It is dusty but otherwise in pristine shape. It's as if "Aliens" snatched up the owner 50 years ago and left everything as-is. What is so impressive is that it is obvious that this shop wasn't created from parts imported from all over. This is the real deal. Roxanne bought the sweatshirt. The two pinkish pictures are of a Indian trading post a few miles before Hackberry. Next stop Las Vegas Nevada.

Roswell New Mexico

Roswell New Mexico is famous for the alleged crash landing of a flying saucer in the desert nearby. The locals take advantage of the tourists and we seem to like it. Even the Wal-Mart is decorated with alien pictures. Inside the store is a complete store within the store dedicated to Roswell and alien souvenirs. After arriving in Roswell we took in a tour at the Roswell UFO Museum. VERY informative. We checked out several UFO stores in the area. We decided to spend the night in the parking lot of Wal-Mart in Roswell. I wanted to sleep on the roof of the camper in hopes that I might be abducted but Roxanne would have no part of it. Needless to say I bought the T-Shirt. After leaving Roswell we plan to take a few side trips off the main highway and check out the old Route 66.

Carlsbad Caverns New Mexico

Having by-passed Carlsbad Caverns on two occasions I was determined to see them this trip. I'm glad we did. Roxanne and I really enjoy exploring caves. Carlsbad is the biggest we've seen to date. We took two tours. The first was with a Park Ranger and took about an hour and a half. When we got done with that we took a self guided tour where you listen to a playback device. The kind where you come to a sign with a number on it. You punch in the number and you hear a recording describing what you are looking at. This tour lasted about two hours. The biggest cavern in the cave is 16 football fields long and 200 feet to the ceiling. Nice and cool inside the caverns. We used the park dog kennels and left Maddy while we explored the caves for about 3 or 4 hours. We left the caverns and spent the night at Wal-Mart in the town of Carlsbad. Next stop Roswell New Mexico.

River Walk San Antonio

Another attraction not to be missed if in San Antonio is the River Walk. about a block away from the Alamo on foot. You walk down stairs and the river runs under the city. There are shops and restaurants on both sides of the river. There are gondola type boats giving tours of the River walk. We had a nice lunch at a Mexican restaurant. It's getting near dark and we still have to catch the bus to get back to the KOA campground. We can't find the bus stop! We really don't want to be here after dark. We finally find our bus stop and there are 4 gangster looking youths waiting there also. Great! They are talking and cussing up a storm. Another black man approaches and he is dressed nice and the gangster guys start making comments about him. The bus arrives and we get on but the gangster guys stay there. We are relieved. After about 5 minutes I get up and walk up to the bus driver to ask him to let us know when we need to get off at the campground. Before I can get a word out he says KOA right? I say yep and he responds "You got the look"
Sheeze! I'll sure be glad to leave San Antonio. Next stop Carlsbad Caverns New Mexico.

Remember the Alamo!

Located in San Antonio we stayed at a KOA and traveled by public transit bus to downtown where the Alamo is.
Almost more interesting than the Alamo was our trip to and from the Alamo. We were sitting on the bench waiting for the bus when a pickup pulls up to the bus stop and a black man gets out and approaches us. He started talking to us and was using some pretty foul language and drinking beer or ale that was concealed in a bag. He looks like a drug addict. He asks where we are going and we tell him the Alamo. The bus pulls up and we all get on. He continues trying to have a conversation with us. He begins making calls on his cell phone and each time he seems to be talking in a different language. Finally he is laying down in his seat and whispering so low we can't hear him. He gets off the phone and says he is getting off at the same spot as us. He says he'll tell us when to get off. I get up and walk to thee front of the bus and explain to the driver we are not familiar with the area and want to go to the Alamo. I ask him to tell us when to get off. He agrees. Awhile later our drug addict friend tells us this is where we need to get off. I stand up and we all walk to the front of the bus and the drug addict gets off expecting me to follow. I ask the driver if this is it and he says no, we get off at the next stop. The door closes and the drug addict is standing on the sidewalk looking disappointed that we didn't get off with him. We were thinking that he was calling his friends to meet us and rob us ..... OR WORSE...to have their way with ME!! Not this time scary, black, drug addict, guy!! Needless to say we kept looking over our shoulder for the bad guys. Kind of put a damper on our visit to the Alamo. Next stop is the Riverwalk.

Pasadena Texas

Home of youthful memories. So, there we were in front of 920 Coleman, Pasadena Texas. I am sitting in the truck while Roxanne takes snapshots of her childhood home. A man pulls up and parks in the driveway. Naturally he wants to know "What the #$$#@#$@ is going on. Roxanne explains why she is there. Richard was his name and he invited her in and they spent a half hour taking pictures and talking about changes he made to the house. He has lived there for the last 18 years. Roxanne, Bob, Berry, and Kevin grew up here. One of Roxanne's fondest memories was whenever it rained the street flooded and they played in natures swimming pool. Afterward we drove to the schools the kids went to and took some pictures.
Next stop The Alamo in San Antonio.