Whelan's Wheels (go round and round, round and round): HELP, SOS, someone please throw me a lifeline

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

HELP, SOS, someone please throw me a lifeline

So here we sit, day NINE!!! So you get a clearer picture of our location .... we sit on a main road (N. Main St. to be exact), not 300 yards from interstate 15, not 1/4 mile from Hill Air Force Base, with very loud jets all day long and the other way 1/4 mile are train tracks with lots of late night traffic. Oh the good stuff, there is a 8' X 15' patch of thick green grass out front for Arlo to pee and poop on every morning, there is a great butcher shop next door and a fruit store and grocery store and state liquor store I can walk to..........

Did I mention we are starting day NINE here. Rick had trouble yesterday with the awning that was "fixed" last week on you guessed it day FIVE - so much for that "fix"! And great news, some mensa candidate and/or powers that be decided on DAY flippin' FIVE to order the parts for the outside refrigerator - they shipped from the east coast on Friday - they should be here Thursday or Friday (day 11 or 12) - so much for Rick's thought that we'd be out of here tomorrow after they sun screens arrive and are installed today. Yeah and there was a knock on the door yesterday to tell us that the warranty work that was sent for approval on Friday - DAY FIVE - was approved saving us 200 bucks - big deal just get me out of here.........my liver can't take anymore. I am about to finish my second book since we've been here.

What's wrong with this picture..... people that arrived after us have long since gone and there are FIVE flippin new coaches here now - yup and here we sit - for day NINE! It makes brown desert, wind, sand, 107 degrees and waiting three and a half hours for tire replacement look like a picnic........

I have tried, really tried to make lemonade out of these lemons we've been handed - my patience are long gone, I have a nasty, bitchy disposition (I can't even stand to be around myself anymore), I have no desire to be around other people - least of all anyone who works here. When we finally (if we finally) get the hell out of here Whelan's Wheels won't be seeing Yellowstone or the Tetons when we fly right on through Wyoming on the mad dash to South Dakota - nope those plans have certainly changed - did I mention we are starting day NINE in this hell hole?

Was it Harry Chapin or Jim Croce that said in a song, if "they" gave the world an enema they'd put the tube somewhere in NJ? Well I think they did put it here in Sunset Utah.......... someone please get me the hell out of here - until then screw it I'm goin' back to bed.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: "mad dash".....huh, what's that mean, 150 miles a day??????; June 17, 2008 at 7:53 AM

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This is our story ~ and we're sticking to it.

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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