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2008
To see our complete Photo Album at our
Webshots Site.
To see a summary map of our route,
click here.
May
16 - 31 These last couple weeks we have been by my
Mom's during the week and then relaxing back at the campground on the weekends.
15 We are going to be in the Chicago area until fall. We
have some family medical needs we must attend to. Later in the summer we
have our nieces wedding and another nieces catillion. I will still be
updating our site, but not as often.
14
We were on the road by 7am and ended up driving
550 miles and pulled into Grass Lake Campground at about 6pm. We got all setup
and then had a cocktail with Ken and Kim.
13
Today we became South Dakotans. We changed our
residency for mail and tax reasons. There is a company
www.mydakotaaddress.com
that works with fulltime Rv’ers to handle mail. Everything can be done remotely
except for the Drivers License. You must get that in person. But in Madison,
SD where we had to go, it was so easy. We had our Drivers Licenses and truck
plates in less than an hour.
12
We are taking a Time Out day today. It is
windy, wet and cool, so we are just working on the internet and relaxing.
11
We went from Thedford, Nebraska to Salem South
Dakota today. It was a good day to travel and we checked into Camp America.
It’s a very pretty campground. We took a 2 mile walk down to a stream, along
the way we saw various birds, rabbits and a pheasant.
10
This morning when we got up we looked
outside and there was snow. We had a delay in leaving, John had to get on the
roof and clean the snow off the slides. We got on the road and off we went. We
got past Denver and almost to Nebraska, when the wind picked up and the rain
started. We took it slow. We made it to North Platte and was going to stay
there, but the wind seemed to have died down and so did the rain.
We were heading to Valentine, but only made it to Thedford,
Nebraska. We were glad we made it there. Along the way it got very windy and
rainy. Then the rain turned to sleet and then to snow. We set up in a
blizzard. We are staying at the Roadside Inn and RV. Actually it worked out
great. The rate is 12.50/nt. It includes full hookup, cable tv, wifi, entrance
to the hot tub and continental breakfast in the morning. We just relaxed in the
cow and worked on photos and our journal.
9
We left Salina Utah early and drove to Golden
Colorado. We stayed at Chief Hosa Campground. During our drive we saw a heard
of Elks. When we crossed the Vail Pass at 10,666 feet elevation, it was still
winter up there. There were feets of snow. We drove 430 miles today.
8
As we were getting ready to leave AVI RV Park,
we saw our friend John from Cocopah in Yuma. He is heading to Moab for the
summer. We left AVI at 7am and drove about 400 miles to Salina Utah. We went
from arid desert to snow capped mountains and trees. We camped overnight at
Butch Cassidy Campground.
7
Tomorrow we are heading out. We changed our
residency to South Dakota, so we have to go get our Drivers Licenses and plates
for Big Red. We did our day prior preparations.
6
We are catching up on cleaning Big Red and the
Cow. Also working on our photos and journal.
5 Our Parrothead friends
are leaving today. We took Jim and Diane to the Vegas airport and then hung out
at the cow.
4
It’s the last day of Phins. We had a buffet
breakfast and then headed out for a hike. We walked along the Colorado River.
The song writers fest was going on at the pool. So we spent the afternoon there
listening to music. It was hot and we needed to cool off, so we brought our
Bubba Kegs to the pool. The tiki hut bar will fill them with margaritas. We
went for the buffet dinner and then out to the pool for the farewell party. It
was a perfect evening. We found lounge chairs and enjoyed the music. Ron Bell,
Mike Broward, John Reno.
3
We all joined the Parrothead Slot tournament.
None of us made the finals, but between us Diane had the best score. Then we
headed out on the lawn for the Cheeseburger in Paradise Buffet. We walked around
and checked out the Mini Marts. At the pool, they had the Flip Flop contest.
It was all about the bribe. Even though the Tiki Hut Flip Flops were the best,
they won because of their bribe to the judges. They had a tray with 6 different
shots. The afternoon pool entertainment is John Reno, Jim Hoehm, Brent Burns,
Bob Karwin, Lauren Adams, and Alonzo. Garratt Wilkin and The Parrotheads is
tonights entertainment. Of course that parrot Billy Clyde showed up.
2
We headed out to Christmas Pass to hike
Grapevine Canyon. They have petroglyphs down in the canyon. John and Jim hiked
up into the mountain and Diane and I hiked in the wash. We saw a huge
Jackrabbit and lots of lizards. There were still quite a few plants blooming.
After our hike we headed to the pool. Later we played some craps and blackjack
then went for a buffet dinner. We met at our Video Poker bar and had a couple
cocktails. Then we headed into the convention center where Stars on the Water
is playing tonight. They played until about 1230am. Then we headed back to our
Video Bar. We ended up back at the cow at 3am.
1
Today is the official start of “Phins to the
West” We went to register and get all our passes and other parrothead items.
Now, you are not supposed to bring alcohol into the pool area. However, our
parrothead items included a flask and a Bubby Keg. Now what else are we
supposed to do with theses? We headed over to the pool party at noon with
entertainers, Matt Wahl, John Reno and Tony Baloney.
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