Yesterday we did laundry, (washer and dryer in our condo) skipped breakfast and had an early lunch at "Paradise Bakery and Deli" on our way to Cabelas, where we wandered around the store for two hours. Herb at his leisure and me at mine, going in opposite directions, meeting later at the checkout stands. Herb had checked the map and is very good at directions so he is getting pretty good at navigation on the outskirts of Phoenix, going back to places we have visited in previous years.
We will go North to Carefree on Friday, visit the farmers market, thrift stores and maybe yard sales. The weather is supposed to turn colder with possible rain on Saturday. On Saturday we will be inside watching a performance at the Arizona Broadway Theatre, "Man in Black". We tried sitting by the pool yesterday but the cold breeze and cloudy conditions chased us back into the condo. Late afternoon Herb BBQ'd pork chops and I freshened up the leftover potato salad and added lettuce to the green salad. Toward evening we finished off the applesauce cake. Today I will have to plan more menu's for the rest of the week.
❝Back to the 1964 camping trip. We arrived at Lake Mead, just south of LasVegas and checked into a campground, near the boat launching area. It was a shaded area and the temperature was in the low seventies. Balmy compared to the weather we had experienced getting there. After the trailer was set up we found a grocery store and stocked up on groceries as we would be camping in this spot for ten days. Herb's Mom was a very good cook even with the limited facilities of the camp trailer. I don't remember much day to day but I know we spent as much time out of doors as possible soaking up the sun. We took long walks investigating our surroundings. In the evenings we sat around a campfire or played innumerable games of cards, canasta or pinochle, one of our favorite pastimes. One day, Bobbi Jo stayed with "Nana and Poppy" and Herb and I visited the casino's in Vegas. He not much of a gambler and I having never seen a one-armed bandit before didn't know how they worked. So we mostly watched people and looked at the sights.
Soon our time was over and we resumed our trip with plans to see the Grand Canyon. It really wasn't a good time of year to see the Grand Canyon so decided we would go to the south rim and at least get a glimpse of it. We camped at the south rim and woke up, next morning, to six inches of snow covering the ground. We pushed on, heading north into Utah. I remember Herb coming down with a cold and flu which slowed us down for a couple of days. We got into a bad snow storm near Heber City Utah, seems like we were pushing snow with the front bumper of the Jeep Wagoneer. We made it to Porterville, Utah where we spent the night at Loraine and Steve's (my sister and brother-in-law). We set up the trailer in their back yard, had a short visit as we were late arriving there. That night we shared their one bathroom with their family of ten. On the last day of our trip, driving through Payette Canyon, north of Boise, we again encountered blizzard conditions. Herb and Dad had to chain up the four wheeled drive jeep so we could continue on. We were about sixty miles from McCall, Idaho, which was home for Mom and Dad. We arrived home safely and had very fond memories of this trip. In later years, after Herbs parents retired they bought their own travel trailer and spent several winters in the Lake Mead area of Nevada. I don't recall that they repeated the adventures of the 1964 trip.❞ Stay tuned, OWAV:)
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