Last Gambling report: I won!!! I won!!! 8) $35.20 Cindy won $$3.20 Therefore, she is up $48.70 and I won $25.20 for a total of $73.90! Not a fortune... but leaving the tables with more than you came with is a remarkable event!
We have decided to leave Vegas a day early. Flagstaff weather report is for snow and ice on the 29th. Flagstaff is the highest elevation on our return trip. Leaving tomorrow will get us through Flagstaff before the snow hits. We had a third session with the tables scheduled for tomorrow. Guess that Vegas will have to file bankruptcy with us taking that huge abount from their vaults. They were planning to get it back tomorrow. :wink:
We are now in Rio Rancho, NM... home of Intel and a suburb of Albuquerque. Just say Kimmie, a girl that was 6 years old when we moved to Austin. She is 17 now and I'm gonna slap her mamma for letting her grow up so fast. :wink: Several people to see here tomorrow and then we start the two day journey back home on the morning of the 30th. We should be able to get home before the idiots get on the road liquored up on the 31st.
I have just uploaded quite a few pictures from Death Valley and Vegas to my Facebook account if anyone is interested. If you have a Facebook account and I haven't found you, send me a friend request.
The weather report was correct. Flagstaff getting hammered today. The snow is moving East and should start here in Albuquerque mid-day tomorrow. We are pulling out tomorrow morning and should clear the pass in the Sandia mountains before the snow hits.
Holy Crap!!! We outran the snow in Albuquerque but it found us in Estancia when we made our last stop before leaving New Mexico. It is coming down in sheets.
Does God hate Lubbock or what? After getting out of New Mexico before I-40 was shut down last nigh, we thought that we were home free. The temps rose to the lower 40's and there was a hard rain coming down. Once we hit Amarillo, the rain slowed dramatically. Starting about 40 miles North, and ending about 50 miles South of Lubbock, there was a muddy rain coming down. I used almost my whole reservoir of windshield washer solvent in that 90 mile stretch. There was nobody in front of me, so it had nothing to do with road spray. My truck and trailer look like I took them through a mud bog. It's nice to be home. Had a lot of fun on the trip... but nice to be home before the crazy drunks get on the road tonight.
Yes, thanks Tom for including us on the adventure it's been fun. With your promise of travel pics on your facebook account I have been tempted to open up a facebook account of my own so I can see them. But I am determined to be the last human on earth who does not have an FB account. So I will have to enjoy the story in the book form...
Those are great Tom especially that first picture, incredible....You are doing your best to entice me to the facebook darkside.... Thanks for sharing....
:lol: come and join us most of us are on facebook too... double the fun. even joco has a faceboo doesnt use it much but he is there
Final look: Miles driven: 3134 miles with trailer & 907 without the trailer Fuel: 447.4 gallons MPG: 9.033 combined Cost: $3.031/gal = $1356 Friends seen: many in 3 cities Time to wash the 5th wheel and get it back into storage. Then I can get the Lubbock slime off my truck! :?