Where Did The Winter Go…Back On The Road Again!

 Café busyness never really picked up except for the events, all of them were well over 200 people, cooking and serving them in the non-catering kitchen was challenging. Our last Café day was supposed to be March 24 but AGAIN a 911 call for a smell of gas was called in from the residents and as usual the drama of what might have been an “explosive event that would have killed hundreds was diverted”, so we chose not to relight the pilots and just shutdown the Cafe a day earlier than scheduled.

The weather was not great this year either, too many days of big time wind, wet days, and temperatures have been frigid too often. Our allergies went wacky sometime in January with us both having severe sneezing, wheezing and coughing…NO fever or body aches but this along with slow days at the Café has worn us out. Antihistamines just dried us out so the coughing became dry so we decided to just go natural as much as possible.

 

Our vacation began earlier than planned and we were ready. We had wanted to attend a race at the Cocopah Speedway while we were here but just never got around to it, but that all changed with a text. We were invited to come and hangout in the pits, and that’s exactly what we did. Unfortunately, my eye had a huge allergy attack even before we arrived and just got worse with all the dust from the cars so we didn’t stay for the final races. We were able to connect with Chrissy and her boyfriend who was racing in the Mini Late Models, he took 2^ndplace. Life is strange and weird at times and this moment was no exception, not sure how we will handle it but we will figure it out.

We had a rough start to our traveling with major issues but nothing that thousands of dollars didn’t fix. We planned to leave Sun Vista and get new tires on the trailer because the tires though we were told they were new with under 1,000 miles on them, unfortunately they were China Bombs. While they were changing the tires at Discount Tires where we get all of our tires from, they noticed major wheel bearings damage on the trailer. They didn’t do that type of repair so we called around and finally were able to get an appointment the next morning at Chassis Dynamics. Seven hours and thousands of dollars later they replaced the Shackles, Equalizers, Bushings, Bearings, Seals and aligned the axles.

Before we left, we moved to Yuma Lakes for a few days to unwind and enjoyed a relaxing day in the hot tub and pool and a night of Bingo, both of us yelled BINGO, but walked away with only a few dollars in winnings.

We left Yuma on April Fool’s Day heading to Tucson for other work on the trailer that needs fixing…Hole in the shower skylight, slides maintenance since they are jumping, electric awning adjustment and fabric…and just a few other minor issues. The great deal we got on the trailer is looking lesser and lesser every day! 

The good news is we are traveling once again, all the way to Upper New York for the summer. We are also finding the issues before any of them leave us stranded somewhere, especially the tire situation which could have been very dangerous to us. We purchase a TPMS for the trailer tires but we are having issues getting it setup correctly. We have a few weeks here to iron out all the little things since we have 2600 miles ahead of us and we want to prevent as much as possible.

As usual there are inconveniences in our lives, a little more than we like but we are so blessed that we are able to take care of it before they become tragic. Jerry didn’t avoid a mishap with a bungee cord that snapped at him, but again it most certainly could have been so much worse. I am taking credit for this, bragging that he got mouthy with me…LOL!