We thought we were going to be real smart this time. We were going to get everything packed and put away the night before we left WA on the 5th. So we proceeded to pack up all the stuff we had strewn around, cinch down the motorcycle in the trailer, turn the motorhome around and hook the trailer up so that we could leave real early the next morning. Everything went great until we tried to put in the door shade. You would think that by now we would know that SOMETHING would go wrong to mess up our plans. Well this almost was it. After looking at the directions of the shade they wanted us to take off a cover that we couldn't get to because of an outside light. Next best thing? Manually, by brute force, push the shade frame back to the side of the coach and wrap, bungy, and tape it up. Then stuffing the canvas behind the frame as best we could knowing that we were probably going to hit wind at some point. Finally at 7:30pm we got everything back together and still had to go into town to say goodbye to Karl's aunt. We got back to the coach around 10pm, fell into bed and waited for the morning to come (way too soon).
On the 5th we were on the road at 8:30am heading to Boise, ID. After driving for 11 hours we decided we were not going to make Boise to meet a friend and ended up in a Wal-Mart parking lot (God bless Wal-Mart). Wasn't too bad except for a local resident thought that it would be real funny to go around the parking lot at 3:30am blowing the horn and the animal control truck (with at least 2 dogs inside, barking) sitting at the gas station for about 30 minutes at 7am. Needless to say didn't get much sleep that night.
Took off around 9am and drove to Ogden, UT to meet up with an Ogden City Policeman who wants to start a new Blue Knight chapter in Ogden and wanted to talk to Karl. After we got through with him it was 4pm and we decided to drive up to the Park City RV Resort to spend the night there and meet our friends Robin and Bill who live in Park City. Would have loved to spend a little time with them and visit the town, but we had to move on.
After driving to Farmington and spending the night in the Elks Club parking lot (yes, they do have hook-ups for RV's) we finally arrived back at our house in Rio Rancho on the 8th where we will be for two months. Well, I will because Karl leaves on Saturday to drive the motorcycle and trailer back to California and fix the pool there that is leaking. He will then fly back to NM on Friday and we will begin to get ready for our company that is coming in for the balloon fiesta in Oct.
