Sunday, February 26, 2012

Travels and travails

Lovely daughter suggested I post about our trip. What should I highlight for week One?
  • 1,400 miles to get here. The daily hours traveling: 6, 6, 0 (two nights in Sparks/Reno), 6, 3, 0 (two nights Yuma), 3.
  • Got to visit Ralph (Medford), Mike and Mary Ann Reinecke (Lake Havasu City AZ), and met up with friends Tom/Mary, Tom, and Del/Sandy.
  • Three casino visits; my start/finish amounts on the slot machines were $10/25, $4/25, and $10/$25. And I only played 10-15 minutes each time.
  • We didn't exactly track the price of diesel, but I believe it ranged from $3.62 to $4.17.
  • Did I mention Mike's grand entrance into Yuma? I was setting up (preparing to unhook the trailer) and he tripped over a hose bib. Resulted in a major hematoma / blood blister thing, plus gravel dents/scrapes through his pants.
  • AND the next morning his Aunt Marilyn passed out in her home, falling and gashing her head. It took a while for me to clean it up before I could see that it needed stitches. Her friend Tom took her in, and the ended up in emergency all day. Of course they wanted to find out why she had passed out ~ Tom said it was the second time in two weeks she had fallen ~ but they didn't find anything. She got eight staples in her scalp!
  • After a week of travel, today was laundry! So tomorrow the vacation starts?

1 comment:

  1. So that 50 bucks you made on the slot machines paid for... what? Half a tank of gas? Ouch. :)

    Thanks for the update. Keep them coming! Pictures too, once you're settled!!!

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