Whelan's Wheels (go round and round, round and round): Our last weekend in Kingman

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Our last weekend in Kingman

So yesterday while Rick was doing this ...

Laughlin River Run sight seeing ..............

I was doing this .... I needed a "pine tree fix" and the owner of the campground we are at now told us about a place 20 miles or so from here - way way up in the Hualapai (pronounced Wallapie). So after several hours cleaning and doing laundry (it really can take hours to clean a motor home when you don't keep up with it) Arlo and I set out for our adventure ..... up and up the mountains we went.

Below is the Lodge of the Hualapai Mountain Resort - rather rustic and dated accommodations in their seven rooms.... but the food - oh my goodness the food. I had the best steak I've had in a very long time - cooked perfectly and tender, tender, tender .. very yummy!

So today after Rick and I helped Arlo celebrate his third birthday we headed back up the mountain (without Sir Arlo who really needed to rest after all the celebrating we three did). I really wanted Rick to see this place - I just knew he'd love it. Doesn't he look like he is enjoying himself? He probably didn't need a pine tree fix but it just seemed like HIS kind of place. Plus, they have elk all around the place ...

Click on the picture below to enlarge it and see one species of elk - posing for "The Amigos" ... sure would have loved to have had "The Amigos" there with us to enjoy (we miss you guys).

So back to Sir Arlo's birthday..... he got a breakfast fit for a Sir - steak and eggs. Sure glad he has a birthday only once a year!

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Our attempt at a blog - quite scary isn't it?

We left MA in early October, 2007 after I (Tracey) retired September 5 as an executive assistant for a software developer and Rick retired from his job on October 1. We passed papers on our house September 28th and off we went. We traveled down the east coast to the Florida Keys ~ where we planned to spend three nights but 17 nights later had to leave our site because someone had reserved it a year prior! We then stayed in northern FL for another month and headed off to meet our Marine returning to the San Diego area after his second tour "over there". We spent several wonderful weeks realizing why grandparents get tired easily! After the San Diego area we headed to the "low desert" (certainly a new phrase for us) of CA and into western AZ .. and decided it was finally time to start the blog we'd talked about since August or so!!

So many wonderful things we saw along the way. And the people, oh the people. I have said so many times to Rick the best part of this journey has been the people. So, so many people with so many interesting stories. Think about it - think about the stories YOU have and multiply that by the many many people we must have met along the way ~ particularly a social person like Rick .. we met a rattlesnake milker in Sweetwater, TX, we met the camp hosts in the Keys who summer back in NH ~ talk about the best of both worlds! We met the female police Sgt. at the Sweetwater Elks whose son was also in Iraq at the same base as my son. We met people in Slidell, LA who survived Katrina and had a great attitude and a smile on their faces and were proud to share their local cuisine with us. We saw the Blue Angels, purely by chance, in El Centro, CA. Or the "campground" where within an hour of arriving our house had been hit three times by golf balls! Or the Elks lodge in Indio ~ the sweetest, bike riding, bartender ~ I just wanted to pack her up and bring her along on our adventure. Not to mention the aerial tram while we were there, the warplane museum for Rick who does NOT do aerial trams! The Salton Sea ~ WOW just WOW. We stayed in the lovely little town of Wilcox, AZ - there was just something about that town. How about Pensacola, FL where the Elks Lodge on the beach is now built high, very high, off the ground! Or what about Huntington Beach State Park in Murrels Inlet, SC - talk about beautiful. What a great place that was to spend our first Thanksgiving on the road with good friends - that was something to be thankful for, for sure. Our first Christmas and New Years in the Keys!! WOW. The love and support of a dear friend in FL while Rick had to fly back to Boston and we dealt with all that entailed with unexpected follow ups back in FL .. how fortunate were we through all of that. Not to mention having the new trailer outfitted in Myrtle Beach and staying at what a week or two a year is the Broken Spoke? Or the kind and soft spoken LA Police Detective who is on the gang unit? So many people, so many stories. And there is so much ahead. The people .. did I mention how wonderful the people have been - all different walks of life .. so many personalities, so many stories! I have said many times ~ I need to pinch myself every morning to be certain it REALLY is happening to US! We are so grateful.

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