Our Wintering Adventure Has Started

Well, sort of.  We should have been half way to Beatty, NV as I write this at 11am.  We are still sitting in the Sparks Marina RV Park.  The RV is fine.  The weather is not.  We are rocking in the wind.  

We had seen only good weather predictions for today or we would have left earlier in the week. I think this front surprised the weather guys.   During the night the wind came up.  The tree next to the RV banged on the front right over our heads all night, resulting is a major sleep deficit this morning for both of us.  The wind is still howling at about 35-40 mph with gusts up to 60.  Not a good day to be on the road in a high profile vehicle - especially when the wind would be a crosswind.  We didn't want to end up on our side in the middle of the Nevada desert, so we are staying put and will leave in the morning (fingers crossed!).  We will probably get a nap (if the wind stops rattling us) and be rested for the drive tomorrow.  Rog has a few chores he can do outside - it's windy but fairly warm.  I can go through the cupboards and straighten things out from where I just threw them in yesterday.  It'll keep us busy today.  

Roger under packs and I over pack, so it's a good thing we are staying, actually, as we had time to go back to the house and retrieve Roger's underwear and socks that he had forgotten to bring!!!  That's some serious under packing! He had left 3 days worth in the RV from our last adventure for some reason and when he noticed the oversight yesterday, he figured he'd just buy some when we got to Las Vegas.  This way he is saving some money and it gave us another something to do.  I even took stuff back to the house that I had overpacked.  I do get carried away.  

We started preparing a couple weeks ago and made two trips to the RV with clothes and food so we didn't have to do it all in one day.  It helped, but we still had a lot to load yesterday. 

After we got it all in the RV yesterday, and I was heating some soup for dinne, Roger went out and bought a chocolate cake for my birthday.  We had friends stop by to wish us good travels and birthday salutations and Mike and Erica stopped by last night  bearing presents.  It was a busy and tiring, but nice day and the chocolate cake with a cup a tea at the end of the day just hit the spot!   

Roger had an adventure setting up yesterday.  Seems there's always something.  

When we got home from our summer trip we "winterized" the RV by putting special antifreeze in the water lines.  We were surprised when we did it that it took so much.  We pumped in five gallons and we weren't sure it was all done, but that is what we had.  We thought we only used three or four in the past so it surprised us when it just kept sucking up the antifreeze.  

Well, Rog found out why yesterday.  He opened the water heater to drain it and put in fresh water.  As he loosened the plug the pressure behind it shot the plug out and a stream of antifreeze shot straight out soaking Roger from head to foot. Then we spent half an hour looking for the plug.  It must have hit Rog and bounced back near the tire but we were looking everywhere else figuring it went flying.  He got it cleaned up, the tank empty, flushed, and refilled.  Apparently the by-pass valve that is supposed to keep that from happening malfunctioned. Something to fix this winter. 

I think it's going to be a day or so, though, before we stop tasting antifreeze coming from the hot water tank.  It looks fine, but, we aren't trusting it yet.  We stopped and bought a couple gallons of bottled water for tea/coffee, drinking, rinsing our toothbrushes, etc.  

The sun is shining, the temperature is in the mid 60s (not expected) but that dang wind just keeps blowing, so just short walks around the park with Maggie today.