I want some coffee!

We really liked Rose Valley RV Ranch. Silver City in New Mexico had been having steady monsoon rains (it's the season) and we were surrounded by green grass. We were in a somewhat isolated spot as I mentioned in an earlier post. Everywhere I looked I saw another great photo opportunity. Loved it. Rose Valley RV Ranch The Google satellite image above was taken during the dry season and lacks the intense green colors we saw everywhere. The metal roofed building at bottom-center is The Barn ; the closest RV site, right at the corner of the road, is site #32 which we had for our stay. The red marker in the center of the park happens to be very close to the showers/laundry room making our site very convenient. And that residential development to the left with all the teeny, tiny houses is Memory Lane Cemetery. Quietest neighbors you could hope for. We did hear gunshots one morning after we arrived. Single weapon, fired randomly. Guessing someone was after some poor critter- not a happy ...

... the floor is wet!   I had a losing battle with the park water supply. I couldn't believe it was low- ultimately I discovered it was set to 10 psi instead of something higher than about 40 psi. After all doesn't Camping World and (at half the price!) Walmart make a lot of money selling regulators so we don't put more than 40 psi city water pressure inside the coach? The water pump and a lot of plumbing parts seem to live under the jack knife sofa along with the 50 gal fresh water tank. I saw a couple valves attached to the tank and discovered there was a supply shutoff valve and a low point drain valve. For whatever stupid reason I left the drain open (it's for emptying the tank) then went outside and checked something. I saw water pouring out thru sloppily bonded fiberglass covering forward of the black tank. Sort of pouring out but it's not a clear path and seems to get deflected on the way toward the ground. Back inside and close the &^%$ drain! I spotted ...

... haven't heard a sound out of them since we arrived! Some of that famous dark Irish humor my Walsh heritage suggests!

 ... cuz we just escaped from Arizona! We got away about 1330 on Tuesday (24 Aug), fussed around at the gas station for another 30 minutes, stopped and had lunch at the TA station in Willcox, and made it to Lordsburgh KOA after 1700. It didn't take 4.5 hours to drive the 117 miles... we lost an hour crossing the state line into New Mexico cuz of Daylight Savings Time (AZ is on standard time). The KOA was... a KOA. Old, everything working order, and a little worn looking. And overpriced. There were all of 8 campers for a park with 56 sites, and we spent a (sorta') quiet nite where we slept with the vents open for the first time in years. It was a celebration of being on the road for the first time in 5 years (!) and a welcome relief. Truck noise from I-10 wasn't too bad though the noise from the trains was a little louder. I'm not sure how much I actually slept but I was up at 0700 and frankly not willing to put together our usual vegetarian smoothie.  So we had cereal ...

from the Queen of Denial. It appears we've risen to the appropriate level of "late" to get some attention from the person at Lazydays responsible for registering vehicles they have sold. We received a .pdf file containing 2 partially completed documents which we needed to sign and return to her. I printed the docs and we each signed one. I have no way to scan images of the signed docs to do a paperless return. So... ... on Sunday, the Admiral's b'day, we took the signed docs to Laztdays and dropped them off at Finance. And made a visit to Chipotle for her b'day dinner. Then today I got another e-Mail saying thanks and that she would be taking them to the titling agency as early as today, Monday 16 Aug, so they can complete the registration process and issue a license plate number. Which brings me to the next stumbling block: the titling agency, which is a private contractor that processes paperwork thru the AZ MVD so others can avoid the pain, cannot issue a m...

Thursday of last week (5 Aug) I called yet again to Laydays and left another message to please call and tell why I haven't received title, registration and license plate. To my complete surprise I did get a call from Lazydays RV... but not from the person responsible for registering our This Vegas RV. The was call from a service manager named Don at about 2:00 PM who said please bring in you RV so we can get the smog check run. Turns out the smog cert was missing from the data submitted to AZ MVD. Not sure I believe all that was related to me, but we jumped in the RV (sort of... Mrs. Bowman's little boy doesn't do "jump" anymore) and buzzed up to Tucson by 3:40 PM. The smog test site closes at 5:00 PM so it was close. But they did the deed and the RV passed. So now the registration should be able to complete. There's no evidence of "completion" yet but we'll see what the next several days brings. We did get a replacement temporary plate that will...