Quick Las Vegas trip

So we get 4 days off and Kathy says"let's go to Las Vegas",...and I say, "uh, okay" We have lunch here in Tucson and then made it to Las Vegas in time for dinner. The Texas Station Hotel and Casino had some good hotel rates so we stayed there for three nights, total was only $115. Yes it was cheap, and it was fairly nice, but it reinforced why we love our RV with our own bed. The drive on hwy 93 going to Las Vegas is such a nice scenic drive.

The drive down the hill on hwy 93 to Lake Mead is beautiful.

Our friends Herb and Christine took us on a tour of Lake Mead and Boulder City,a place everyone should visit.

I'm obviously still popular with the ladies, she hooked up with me right away.

The fish of Lake Mead are so friendly they come up to say hello and feed me.

More crazy sights from Sin City, Las Vegas. So many unusual people on Freemont Street, downtown!

We like to sit outside on The Strip and watch people as we enjoy our favorite beverage.

Tubac, AZ Arts Festival

We had the pleasure of going to the annual Arts Festival in Tubac, AZ with our friends, Joe and Tammy. This is around Feb 4th, 2015, the weather was great and it is a neat little arts town surrounded by mountains. I'm not really a big arts fan, but like always, I go with the idea that something good just might happen. We enjoyed a great lunch on the patio and looking at all the vendors scattered around town. This event obviously attracts large crowds.

Kathy did find a plaque that she thought was appropriate for her, I was so offended.

Finally arrived at the KOA/Lazydays RV Park in Tucson,AZ

On Jan 7th, 2015 we arrived at the KOA in Tucson, beautiful 76 degree weather and got site 1646. The next day we got an all day rain, they should pay us for visiting since we can bring rain even to the desert. Our friends from Camp Gulf in Destin, FL, Joe and Tammy Wise were here to greet us...well after they got back from a Phoenix trip. So far our impression of this park is.... nice! Two swimming pools with hot tubs, a restaurant with full bar, and a fitness center. It is a large park with about 380 sites.

The swimming pools are heated and the weather so far has been everything we had hoped it would be. Most days have been 70-80 degrees as much of the country is suffering from a brutal winter.

We were hoping to get a workamper job and we did! Kathy got hired first working in the main office as a reservation specialist, and I got hired later working just a few nights a week as security. She is much busier than I am dealing with  people calling who have a multitude of questions about the park and then ask about things we know nothing about. Some people actually want you to recommend other RV parks in the area or where is a good place for them to walk their dogs!

Beautiful weather and plenty of room to walk the dogs.

Another good thing about the larger nicer RV resorts are the many nice rigs that pull in. I love to look at the beautiful big 40-45ft Class A motorcoaches. It's amazing how much money people spend on these mobile mansions! This guy has a gorgeous Prevost from Marathon Coach, plus he has a Corvette, a Mercedes Benz, huge Ford  F-650 truck, T-Bucket street rod, and a golf cart that is capable of 90 MPH!

Here's a few more of the luxury Class A motorcoaches that come to stay at RV resorts.

The Journey To Tucson, AZ! Jan. 4th, 2015

After a relatively uneventful start of our journey, well about 15 minutes of uneventful we made it to the interstate. As we were going over one of the bridges some lady pulls up next to us in her car honking and frantically waving for us to pull over. The wind was terrible that day and we immediately pulled over to see what the problem was. One of our two bicycles had come loose from the bike rack and was dragging behind our car that we tow. Wore my front tire down through the tube and also damaged the wheel. She was kind enough to help us secure the bike despite the very high winds and heavy I-45 traffic screaming by. Thank you again lady,...whoever you are!

Our first stop on this leg of the journey is Buckhorn Lake RV Resort in Kerrville, TX. This is a very nice resort but it is basically all by itself right off I-10. The park is nice and even nicer is the private area with owned RV lots for Class A motorcoach owners only. Kathy's cousin and my friend Harvey Roof came to visit us from the Austin area and we went out to dinner in Kerrville. Only one night there and then off to another favorite stop for us, Balmorhea State Park, TX. We really love this desert park complete with spring fed large swimming pool. This will be our third visit to the great state park and we highly recommend this place if you are in the area. The pull through sites are nice, you may get greeted by a roadrunner, and you will love the sunsets and the star filled night sky.

The spring fed 72 degree swimming pool, complete with fish is nice, and a popular place for scuba diver training classes.

Our third night was in Deming, NM which is nothing to get too excited about, but the "Dreamcatcher RV Park is a fine place to spend the night. It is an "Escapees" park, so members get a discount...and we all love discounts, right?

The mountains of the Deming area did make for some nice views from the motorhome.

Galveston Island,TX visit Nov 9th, 2014-Jan. 4th, 2015

After spending time in Oklahoma visiting family and getting caught up with medical and dental visits, it was time to head south back to Galveston, TX We usually like Galveston for Nov-Dec so we can stay warm and be relatively close to Oklahoma to visit for Thanksgiving and Christmas. This year didn't work out so well, the weather was most often chilly and lots of rain and fog.

www.sandpiperrvresort.com

This was site 5 at The Sandpiper RV Resort on Galveston Island, and it was our second time there in that spot. One of the perks was the City of Galveston has a free a fitness center at McGuire Dent Recreation Center. and we used it often. We also rode bikes as much as possible and enjoyed watching all the ships in the Gulf and in the shipping channels.

As long as the weather cooperates, Galveston is a great place to bike ride and enjoy the sights. Lots of entertainment, shops, and fine restaurants on Seawall Blvd to enjoy.

The main problem with going to Galveston is that Houston stands between you and the rest of the less hectic world. Driving through Houston is always interesting and a challenge., but when you go through the Houston metro area you have to visit a Buc-ee's Convenience store. They are huge and have the neatest gifts and tons of great food items. We stopped at one that had something like 52 fuel pumps and the clerk said that they were building a new one in Baytown that would have over 90 fuel pumps!

While we were in Galveston we got to enjoy a theatrical production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", which I must say was fun and quite.....different. The theater which is down on The Strand is a nice theater that even offered beer and wine for a "donation".

After our Galveston stay we decided to try this winter in Arizona since the Florida panhandle area, actually Destin, was way too cold last year.  We finally decided to give Tucson a try and booked our stay at the KOA/Lazydays RV park with the hope of maybe getting a workamper position. So on January 4th, 2015 we fired up the rolling fortress and off for a 4 day trip to Tucson. We usually drive 300 miles or 5 hours, after all...what's the hurry?

Oklahoma CIty, OK - Roadrunner RV Park - Sept. 12-19, 2014

Made it safe and sound to OKC. We usually stay at the Roadrunner RV Park since it is the closest decent park to our daughter and grand daughter in Moore.

Site 17

Roadrunner RV Park

This park continues to be a good basic, no frills park. There is still the run down motel between it and Interstate 35 but never have any problems while here. This site is a back in on the east side of the park. The concrete is all cracked and there was some plywood toward the back of the site that, I guess, someone had put down as a patio a long time ago. This site was across from the dumpster but didn't have any problems with noise from guests or the dump truck.
The park is expanding to the north and the ground work has started. It will be interesting to see how this turns out and if it effects the park to the better or worse.

Full Hookups with free wifi but it was not good since we were a ways from the tower.
$202 for a week. There was a $20 charge since we were "big rig".
We barely fit into the site as you can see from the picture. Still think it's the best value for a decent park that is close to our daughter's home.

Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum - Oklahoma City, OK - Oct. 16, 2014

Fall break so a day to OKC!

We needed to make a trip to OKC so decided to make a day of it. Our grandson came along which made it a special day! We met our daughter for lunch at a pizza place close to her office - Pizza 23. We like to go to locally owned restaurants when we can so Michele suggested Pizza 23. It is a cute little pizza joint on 23rd st. Pizza and salad were both very good! Right next door is the Orange Leaf but I was able to not give in to temptation :-)

Oklahoma City National Memorial
Owen had asked if we could go to the Bombing Memorial since he'd been last year with his class but was very rushed. Sure! It had been a few years since we'd been. I really hate to say but either my memory is very bad or they have added a lot to the museum about the bombers. My personal opinion, there should only be a very small section that is about them. This place should be a memorial to the victims and the survivors not the the horrible men that caused it. That's my 2 cents.
The outside is a wonderful memorial! A very calm and restful setting with the memorial chairs placed where the building once stood. The reflection pool is where the street once was located.