Day 17 Sunday 7/07

What new can I say about wake up anymore? Well I can say that dad was up long before I was, Why? Simple, he had to drop grandma off at the Airport, she went back home today, meaning there is one less person traveling with us and in this RV.

Like always it took a bit for all to wake up, but even still we actually managed to leave camp earlier today, before 9 rolled around by several minutes. Though sadly we only went about a half hour up the freeway before we decided to stop for some gas. And as always we soon got back on the road.

After a good long while on the road we decided to stop for lunch, and it just so happened to be at a little spot on the side of the road, but hey who am I kidding, it got us food! As you can tell, I was hungry at the time.

And then when we had finished up our lunch we hoped over to a nearby gas station and filled up our gas tank. It was a short fill up that had us back on the road in no time.

The drive….I don’t know why but I swear it was more boring than normal. Then again…a lot of these drives are boring, the best I can usually do is just sit and wait. But eventually we had to stop for gas…again. What can I say this RV is a gas guzzler, the fact that it can go several hours without a refill just says how big the tank is.

Once done with gas, we had to a bit down the road for where we were staying for the night…..hm….haven’t I said that before? Well we got there a little bit before five. We are in Utah by now, but thankfully I don’t have to worry about time changes, not for several days at least.

After a bit we got the RV into a spot and the whole settled down for a nice night stay. With that done, it was evening as usual around here, it is nice when that happens. Eventually we had our dinner and the adults decided to go for a walk after that, while me and sister relaxed. But other than that it was a relaxing night.

Tomorrow is yet another travel day, I hope you’re knuckles haven’t gotten bruised yet because we still need you to do that knocking for us, if you do, we will.

Typed July 7, 2013

Day 14 Thursday 7/04

Sadly in a massive and stupid delay for me, I am typing this a tad late, so exact times are near impossible. Just felt I should warn you.

I can start off with saying we all got up nice an early. We were afraid of a local weather system moving in and dropping rain on us, so we decided to do what we wanted early. And by that I mean we hopped in the Van and did way to much driving.

You see we are camped near Pike’s Peak, and it was decided we would go see it, so we spent most of the morning driving up, got there near lunch had lunch then came back down taking photos all the while and boring me half to death and freezing a few of us. Okay I just noticed that was a bit of a run on sentence, sorry about that.

After done with Pike’s Peak we drove around trying to decided what to do next, or first to choices were bust be it because of overcrowded or price. But what we did do…well let’s just say it took a good long while and a lot of photos.

But when that was done we went and had dinner, I found out my stomach was not as big as I hoped or as small as I feared. And when we were done with dinner, the weather system we were afraid would hit us earlier FINALLY hit, and only barley so. I hate to say it, but I kind of figured that would happen, we are next to the MOUNTAINS for crying out loud, and mountains are darn good at stopping large weather systems. Now granted some do get over but given the sizes of what we were seeing I wasn’t expecting much.

I starting to think I need to stop with my mini rants….anyways we hoped back in the Van and came back to the RV. We had to unload the RV a bit, and then we found out sister had forgotten something back at the place we had eaten at (and I put that because my mind decided to fail me on spelling again). After a bit of work and some running around that was quickly rectified…okay why can I smell that much more complicated word and not the more common word I wanted to put above…….I can’t understand myself anymore.

Once all was done we settled in and sorted a few things in the RV then had a more relaxing and normal evening.

Tomorrow it is more traveling, it isn’t much though. We don’t plan on going all that far but the wood knocking is still welcomed (I DID IT AGAIN)…..I’ll shut up now before I miss spell something else…again…

 

PS. I completely forgot what day it was when I was typing this, so HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY !

Typed July 4, 2013

Day 13 Wednesday 7/03

I’m starting to think there is no longer such a term as sleeping in with me, Why? Because I woke up at Eight again. That is starting to get bothersome, but what can I do. Well all I can do is what is done every morning, wake up and get the RV ready to travel as well as relax a bit. And that is what we did, and I say we because the rest of the family eventually woke up as well.

We left camp late sadly, by about a half hour. But like always once on the road we were…well traveling yet again. I know I’m being repetitive but I’m running out of things to say.

Eventually we dropped an hour, and by that I mean we went from Central time back over to Mountain time. So I guess I can say the timing of everything is a little messed up. But Hey I would rather gain an hour than loose it.

 At 12:01 local time we got to stop for some gas, and lunch. And since it was a Flying Js I decided to get some pizza, I’ve been seeing them every time we’ve gone into a Flying Js and I couldn’t resist any more. As always we were back on the road in no time, continuing are long trek across…I don’t know what to call this terrain anymore so I’ll just say: across the road. Don’t like that? Well then you can come up with a better idea because I’m getting confused out here.

Eventually we did a stop, this stop was not like our normal. This stop was so that we could go shopping for food at whole foods. Time? Two. After I do believe to be about an hour, we left with a what we wanted plus a bit more. And one they were put away we were back on the road.

Though we were already decently close to our destination for the next few days. It took a bit of work this time around to get the RV into position and all of that but once done we all settled in for a nice relaxing afternoon/evening.

Well actually that didn’t completely happen. We decided to go out for some dinner, which was damn good. And then once done with dinner we drove to a store and got some bottled water, which we had basically run out of, I will never know how that completely happened.

But once done with that it truly was back to the RV for relaxing/fighting with the RV and all the other stuff we do here.

Tomorrow the RV is staying in place, but instead we will be driving around in the Van doing different things for the day. So all in all I am expecting a semi-busy day. But we’ll all find out tomorrow. But if you want the knocking can continue (and if not for safe travel then for me not trying to kill one of our pets, these guys are getting annoying. I mean as I type this I have a cat balancing on my leg, and it is not comfortable!).

Typed July 3, 2013

Day 11 Monday 7/01

Oh how I love waking up early in the morning. Well actually not really, but hey I woke up early, seven, again anyways. It actually took a bit to wake up for some reason, but once I was up I wasn’t going back to sleep so I went into the friend’s house.

It was a nice relaxing morning, the main brake was when me and the friend went off to pick up her dogs and then came right back. With the dogs now in the house, running around all over the place, it became a nice morning again.

After enough time we finally had something to eat. It was breakfast food but it was at lunch time….so I guess it’s brunch.

After hours of sitting on our butts or doing something else a few of us decided it was time for a swim in the Friend’s pool. Eventually got out, relaxed some more, had some dinner, then went back in. I know a lot of swimming but it is some fun stuff. The second swim was also at night so it was even more fun.

But eventually I got tired of swimming so I dried off went back in and spent the rest of the night reading.

Tomorrow we are back on the road again, and it’s a long drive, so start the knocking again. And I’ll see you then.

Typed July 1 and 2 2013

PS. Sorry for the delay in the post, I completely forgot about this last night.

Day 10 Sunday 6/30

The day we go back on the road, and I start waking up around seven again. It feels sort of nice, but for some reason it means I am one of the firsts ones up, oh well. With being up means we get to slowly start getting ready to leave, which does take a bit considering we had to clean up and sort through things that had piled up during our several day stop in Oklahoma City.

Well anyways we all eventually got up. And in time, a bit after nine I believe, we were on the road. Our destination is a friend’s place that the computer says will take us near three hours to get to. But you need to remember, this is by our RV which travels slower than most drivers will normally go, so sadly while it can take a car an hour and a half to reach our destination, three hours is what we get. It is normal and boring, but when you travel this way you can do nothing but deal and enjoy the ride.

Eventually we stopped for some gas close to twelve, we decided to stop here since we were so close to our stop for the day. Want to know how close? A mile and a half, give or take a turn. Which that close of a distance I could almost run/jog between the gas station and the friends place and get there from to the other in about ten minutes, if I push myself to jog/run the whole distance.

In about ten-fifteen minutes we were gone again. At one point we missed our turn and had to turn back around, during that process I had a Déjà vu.

Well eventually we found or destination, but we became concerned about finding a place to park. The streets and layout were a bit cramp, so it was a bit…uncomfortable to try and figure out what to do. But after a bit of thinking, we got the RV parked and got to spending time with the family friend.

Of course we spent the rest of day, we even had dinner. The only thing to note about that time was the fact that the sun refused to go down. But in time like a good son it went down.

There isn’t much more to say about the night. It was like we were at home, but at a friend’s place. It really is nice to be relaxing here, and we will be here tomorrow as well. But after that, it is back to the road. But as to what we plan on doing? Well time will tell for it is a work day.

But for now, if you knock on wood or not is up to you. If you do, thanks we always need what comes with it.

Typed June 30, 2013