On the road again!!

The last day of the Gypsy Gathering was the best. I went to a seminar on digital photography and RV tips for women. In the afternoon both Ed and I went to the seminar on diesel engine performance. The best seminar of the whole rally was on fire safety given by Mac McCoy. Check out his webpage - http://www.macthefireguy.com/.

I know there have been many discussions about traveling down the road with the propane on. We always did. We are trying to change our habits. Now we turn the refrigerator and propane off. We also learned a little more about fire extinguisher and I now know how to use them!! It seems like a simple thing to do, you know the concept of how they work. But to actually use one to put out a fire was a blast! I thought that once you pulled the pin the extinguisher was no good. But if you don't use it all you can put the pin back! I highly recommend this seminar to everyone! We have a fire extinguisher that Ed had in his machine shop. It is a very good one, but its an ABC. We learned that the chemical in it is highly toxic, so we took it out of the motorhome and put it in the outside bay. It will be okay to use on an outside fire, but its a good thing we didn't have to use it inside. The other extinguisher we have is for inside use but we do need to get a couple more.

After the seminar on diesel engines, we purchased a new air filter and turbo muffler. Major Wingfield started the install Thursday and finished yesterday. He had a real hard time with this install. He found some things that made us real glad we decided to do this. Seems a couple of the brackets holding the old one had come lose and our tailpipe was so rusted he could put his finger through it. Lets hope this helps a little with our gas mileage. That's why we got such a late start yesterday. We finally got on the road around 3:00pm which meant we hit Tuscon right at 4:30.

We arrived in Benson and went to the Saguaro SKP park and pulled into a boondock spot for the night. They could not get us a site so we moved to Benson I-10 Rv Park. We will be here until Friday so we purchased a week. It was $118 for a full week and we have 50 amp power and cable tv. Even though we have a dish, we have the option of watching something different on the other tv. It would have been that much for the SKP park by the time you paid for your electricity.

We plan to visit Tombstone and Ed has a t-time for Thursday to play golf. There are also some other towns we want to visit also.

This is such fun!!