The evening in Las Vegas was pretty uneventful and Maggie behaved pretty well in the motel room. She did bark once when someone went past the door making noise. Her biggest issue was where to sleep. Normally when we stay in a motel we get a room with two beds. The reasoning is we don't sleep well in motels and especially if the bed is soft theres a lot of tossing and turning going on. So, to get some sleep we get two beds. I put Maggie's bed at the foot of my bed and she was OK for a while but during the night she hopped down and had to go check on Roger, then she would jump back up and settle in her bed. Back and forth she went several times. So much for us getting more sleep in separate beds.
We made it home yesterday afternoon around 4pm and had no adventures on the way - thank goodness! It's a long and pretty boring drive from Las Vegas but it was ok. The sun was out, but it was cold and windy. When we stopped in Tonopah for lunch it was 47 degrees and the wind was gale force. Very unpleasant. Had to eat in the truck again. Welcome back to Nevada, eh? We did notice lots of water in the Walker and Truckee Rivers. It was nice to see. I read that this is the first time in six years that the Walker River has flowed into Walker Lake at Hawthorne!
Maggie doesn't like two lane roads. US95 from Las Vegas to Fallon, NV is two lanes most of the way. Because we weren't pulling the RV we were going along at a pretty good clip and actually passing people. We never get to do that when we tow! Every time Rog pulled out to pass (mostly slow RVs) and back into our lane he crossed the center line, of course, and drove over the rumble strip. Maggie got her shorts all in a knot. She did not like that sound at all. She insisted on sitting in my lap as close to me as she could possibly get and just shivered. At one point she was pushing into me so hard I thought my belly button was going to end up on the back of the seat!
After dragging in all our stuff and eating left over pizza from the night before, we made a quick trip out for breakfast groceries so we wouldn't have to eat out this morning. We spent the evening putting away "stuff" and it was bed time before we knew it.
Today was restocking the pantry and fridge day. After a trip to Costco and Raley's I think we might have enough food for a few days. There was nothing here so we even had to get condiments and basics like that. It was pretty $$$ today!
This afternoon I spent with the computer trying to transfer Quicken files to the desktop from my laptop. I got to spend an hour on the phone with a nice young man from Louisiana named Bob who helped me out and gave me some good tips for next time. He said his folks were full time RVers so he understood what I was doing. Then I went through all the mail that was stuffed in the box over the last month. Mostly junk, but buried in the stack were a few treasures.
We are home now for about four weeks. We start back to the gym on the 1st and have doctor/dentist/vet appointments to keep us busy. I need to get the yard in shape and my drip system up and running before we take off again. There are lots of things on the "to do" list. The time will fly by and we will be reversing the trip to Arizona to pick up the RV.
The good things about being home - real toilet paper and not that flimsy RV stuff, garbage disposal, dishwasher, full size shower with lots of water, we can go into separate rooms, and my own washing machine. Ah, the little pleasures of life.
I'm signing off now. I'll start back up probably around the 25th of April when we head south. Mark your calendars.
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