This day was coming all along, yes, this day, the last night of our journey of 2015. We're here in Las Vegas spending the last night of this years journey, we been here visiting our good Friend Fred Keene who is working here in the area and staying in his RV at this park. The Oasis Las Vegas RV resort is a fine place and a place we would definitely stay again, top shelf RV resort. Normally it's comp'd rooms at one of the Casino Hotels, but I wouldn't hesitate to drive the motor home up here and stay here in the future. If you know me you know that this would be one of my favorite places to spend the last few days of any journey anytime, I love this place.
After we travel the 296 miles from Las Vegas to Phoenix tomorrow we will have traveled 6495 miles from May 30th when we left to September 1st when we will arrive back in Phoenix. That's not a record for us but it seems to be about the norm for a 2 1/2 - 3 month trek across this great country of ours! We usually end up with between 6,000 and 7,000 miles on these trips and based on an average of let's say 6.85 mpg, that's like 948 gallons of gas at an average cost of about $2.60/gal. on this trip. Yes if you us the 6495 and the 948 gallons it's like $2400 in gas.............but well worth it believe me for the time we spend together (in between visiting friends).
Even though this trip mirror a couple of others in some ways, we always seem to find new places and things to do and see. This year some of the high points were like North Dakota, especially Medora..........freaking awesome time in that area! Florence, Oregon this year was one of the greatest weeks of the trip, two nice golf courses and wonderful weather..........good friends too! Thanks Al and Tabatha! We may have to reconsider when we visit family in Iowa, that first couple of weeks in June just really suck! We had more rain in those 2 1/2 weeks that we get in Phoenix in 5 years......no shit, believe it, that makes for miserable times. Then there was the hail storm that totally trashed our 4 week old new car (mostly the hood) in Superior, WI. And then we hit Vegas......it really puts us back in the climate of our home, 102 - 104 for the past few days and not all that bad. Hey it's a dry heat and that really matters........believe it. We both can breath one hell of a lot better in the dry air, not all stuffed up all the time! We dodged fires all through Washington, Oregon and California, no matter what road we took we missed all the fires and smoke.
We both looked at each other today and said...........why are we going home? We can to northern Arizona for a while, not a problem! One big problem or should I say two big problems, that would be "Jack" and "Dalila", we miss the grand kids so much and our friends at home too but those kids we just need to hug............big hugs! Now we may after a few days or a weeks say OK we got those hugs, now lets go again for a few weeks!
(One thing I might add to this blog.............there seemed to be some weight gain on this trip, man do we need to address that when we got home! Too many visits with friends and too many meals out of the coach! We have our work cut out for us)
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