Wednesday, August 1, 2007 --- Continued

Bob's Blah Blog:


So, we left Walnut Grove on Sunday morning, bright and early, ok, 9:15 am. Our plan was to drive to Winemucca NV by way of Reno. Everything was going good until we got to the rough road up near Donner Pass. I think the road was rough because someone (and I mean Corinne) thought she saw bones in the road, left over from the Donner Party canibalization party in the 1800's or so. I got to admit, she had me believing her, but me thinks I was the heel of her joke, the butt of the funniness. When I almost had my finger on it, we had an elbow turn in the road and, headed back down the pass. Actually, I am not sure if the road was designed to be rough due to snow or if the vehicles with chains on their tires chewed up the concrete. All I know is it was one rough son of a gun.

We spent the night in Whineymucha, I mean Winnemucca. It actually wasn't too bad, they had a nice pool at the Good Sam, formerly a KOA campground. A bunch of teenagers came to use the pool and started splashing, so I had to introduce the youngest one to Mr. Drain. It was the only way I could think of to get their attention without having to tell them "don't get the redhead upset...I gots to go back to the coach with her."

Monday was a long drive to Salt Lake City. The weather was hot, nearly 98 degrees the whole way. The interesting part of the trip, other than Corinne driving, was the salt flats as you enter into Utah. The area goes some 36 miles of nothing but white salt and stagnate water. Getting back to Corinne driving, she had mentioned wanting to learn how to drive the "big rig" but only on the open road. So, about 50 miles outside of SLC, she got her chance. She did a great job, even driving in the city to the rv camp. The truck pulls the coach very well, and all one has to do is keep the wheels on the ground.

We got a nice parking spot at the campground, #922 for those of you keeping score at home. However, we have a tree just to the south of us, so we cannot use our Dish satellite, the very same one we had such fun with in Walnut Grove. Anyway, we sent the old one back to Dish today. I got a receipt from the UPS store so Dish can't screw me over by saying I never returned it. I got their number...tracking number, that is.

We have been spending most of the day at the Family History Library doing genealogy research. I don't gots no family...because I can'ts find nobody in the books. Corinne has found lots of stuff on her families, and really struck it rich today finding stuff on the McComases from NM and AZ.

When we got back to the coach last night after the library, there were some new neighbors parked across the road from us. Most of the boys didn't have shirts on, and one kid in particular looked like a refugee from the Nazi camps in Germany. He was so skinny he could have slipped into a pair of my undershorts (without me in them, of course) and put his whole body in one leg hole. Then the next day, he could switch leg holes and wear the shorts for another entire day...or more if he was so inclined.

The state capitol building here is under some major remodeling. As it stands now, it puts the AZ capitol building to shame. Talk about a nice exterior facade.

I had an absolutely terrible headache all day yesterday. It really only hurt when I was sitting down. Now normally, I would call that a pain in the arse, but it was in my head. When I would stand up and walk around, it still hurt, but not nearly as bad. Sitting down also made me feel like I wanted to vomit..that would have been pretty in the library now wouldn't it? Research that lunch and get back to me.

We will probably stay one more day in SLC to finish up some research, then move on. Either go east or north. Want to be in Seward, NE (near Omaha) during the week when the cemetary is open. We will go to a stone monument maker to make a headstone for Courtney's mother, Corinne and Maurine's grandma Harriett Tipton.

Showing photos on tv of the bridge collapse in Minnesota. What a mess. Glad we weren't there at that time.

Well, I guess that's all the news for now. I hope everyone is finding something of interest in these blogs. We try to keep them totally factual and interesting.

Hey, we got our ( and I mean mine and Corinne's) very first retirement checks today. They both went into my bank account. Yippee!!!, I knew if I hung around her long enough it would start to pay dividends. Now, the bad news is, ADOA lost Corinne's paperwork for the deposit of her first sick leave buyback check. How hard can it be??? Anyway, a telephone call and a verbal request got it handled. Sheeesh!!!

Bobo