Day 56 ---The Other Woman On The Move

With Blue skies, lite traffic and full of fuel we are heading
home, leaving the Indians a bit richer thanks to my co-pilot
and thousands like her.
Our # 2 daughter was the one that talked me into doing this
to keep track of us and  keep me busy while my co-pilot is
where,[ The Casino ] Now I see our #1 & 3 daughters and
about 5 other followers that must follow my  B-S but no
# 2 daughter on the list of followers .

                           THE  END

Day 55 ---The Other Woman On The Move

Our run from Chico to 7 Feathers went good, lite traffic and
cool weather and LOTS of bugs, it was getting to the point I
couldn't safely see.
Steak & Crab was the dinner special, now as we were eating
I noticed my co-pilot was almost done, she never beats me
when it comes to eating !!! UNLESS there is a damn Casino
in her vision.
So, a long story made short I'm setting in the bus talking to
myself , while shes exercises her finger !!!!!!!!!!!

Day 54 --- The Other Woman On The Move

Reno is just something in the rear view today, we run 80
west  until we got into Calif and switched to 20, on the map
it cut off some miles, was it faster I don't think so, only
saw 6or8 other dumb asses with rigs as big as ours on this
road, when we got out on good road it was right by a, yes
Casino but my co-pilot must of still had her eyes closed, and
I  just kept going, we have been in this area with the car on
our Chico's trips and thats where we stopped for the nite at
the Chico Elks.

Day 53 --- The Other Woman On The Move

 We headed out to Carson city today to check out the R/R
museum, I almost pasted on this one BUT I'm glad we went.
Now this isn't a large museum but they have a nice building
with 6 old steam engines , and misc cars but what they do
have is one of 3  V&T McKeen Motor Car now I have seen
a boxy looking thing that carried mail and a few passengers
but this is a step above, it does not have the original motor
or trans because this is used and displayed alot . The original
motor was a marine engine , which was a reversing  rotation
motor to be able to back the coach up but it wasn,t very
reliable to restart  when they turned it off to go the other way
so it got a little 3208 CAT diesel with auto trans.
On up to Virginia City, now Silver City and Gold ?? looks like
they are close to getting dug up by the mine , Virginia City is
a old town ,left old and it draws the people, I think it is called
a tourist trap built on a steep side hill .
 So on the way back to our home on wheels my co-pilot out
of the clear blue sky says, I can't go to Reno without going to
a CASINO I would never hear the end of it, well we went to
a casino and I watched her[throw] her money away.Now she
is trying to tell me I'm bad luck for her gambling hobby!!!!!!!!

Day 52 ---The Other Woman On The Move

Ride The Bus and Leave The Driving To Us , well I sorta
screwed up and bought the damn bus and that means leave
the driving to me. My co-pilot somehow got the cattle prod
and convinced me to run from Vegas to Reno about 503
miles. She did let me stop at Tonopah and check out some
of the old mining stuff , tough , hard , life , and its great
that there are  people that want to try and keep some of this
history alive for the next generations !!!! and make a few
dollars toboot

Day 51 ---The Other Woman On The Move

Today we headed  into Vegas first stop Pawn Stars and we
drove right on by, the line was almost a full block long and
no place to park.
Next stop was Ricks American Restorations, found a place
to park, signed up for the tour and we were in but you weren't
allowed to take pictures inside because of projects that might
be on TV later. The place sure isn't as big as it seems on TV.
Our third stop was Counts Kustoms the car guy, had to walk
a couple blocks on this stop, but we got right in , seen his
private car collection but we didn't get to see the shop area.
So to finalize our trip to the city that never sleeps, after it got
dark we drove the strip to check out the lites !!!!!

Day 50 --- The Other Woman On The Move

Today we are off to Hoover dam , but when we rounded the
last corner I asked my co-pilot doesn't anybody work anymore ?
I would of liked to take a tour but I learned my lesson back at
Zion N P anyway a few facts about this damn dam.
Height 726ft Length 1,244 Cost 175 million 6.6 million tons of
concrete and contains 9.2 trillion gallons of water and created
America's largest man-made reservoir Lake Mead, the project
was started 1931 the last concrete was poured in 1935 and the
first generator was making power Oct of 1936, 2 years ahead
of schedule !!!!
They say the town of Boulder built Hoover Dam but I think
if wasn't for the dam there wouldn't be a Boulder but I had
to check the R/R museum with some old engines that probably
helped get supplies to the dam, you can still see the tunnels
where the tracks were laid to move the supplies for the build .
Last stop the Shelby museum, one of the very first ones to
current and  the shop with cars and trucks in various stages
of completion,  Neat and for 154,000 dollars you can end up
with a 1100hp new Shelby and you supply the base car and
they keep all take off parts !!!!