Happy Day’s Are Here Again

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Washing machines

You’d think we live a fairly boring life when we can get excited about doing the laundry. Put in context, you might see those awesome wonders of modern technology in a different light if you saw them through our eyes. Over three weeks without doing laundry and every article of clothing in our laundry bag permeated with dust, lots and lots of dust. Looking at the drawer were I keep my clean clothes you would see two pairs of cargo shorts and two tee shirts. Looking at where we keep our laundry bag, which in the closet of all places, you would see a closet door that can barely close. “Happy Day’s Are Here Again” is the perfect description for the three washer loads we washed, dried, folded and put away today. As the saying goes: We are very happy campers.

Big Boy’s Toys

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Model train layout

Early morning before all the “boys” arrive to play with their model trains. Having watched them yesterday afternoon, I’ve decided you can not have anything to do with this layout unless you wear a trainman’s style hat. In hindsight I should taken a photo with a person in it to better be able to see the size of this layout. Regardless it was great watching them run multiple trains around the layout yesterday.

A Very Refreshing Day

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Showe

After 21 days of boondocking there was one thing we looked forward to more than anything else. You guessed it! A nice long shower. In the desert it is always dusty, and the need to apply shampoo twice indicated where a good bit of dust had settled upon my person. I used a dry shampoo while boondocking and while it worked, it certainly wasn’t as good as standing in the shower. That is just one of the reasons why boondocking for weeks at a time is not for everyone. Realistically, most RVers never boondock at all.

No! They are NOT Blue Snakes

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After 18 days of boondocking/no hookups/dry camping (take your pick) we are in an RV park with full hookups. Besides water, electric and sewer, we have 4 bars on our Visible cell phone data service so we can stream with no problem. We had a wonderful time boondocking, making great friends, but when your home is where you park it, having creature comforts can make life far easier. To make it even better we were flabbergasted to discover my cousin Steve, he of the Minnesota branch of my family, was staying at the same RV park. Our life guide, Sara N. Dippity has has struck again. Life is far better than just good.