Finally made it to Moab and the weather was great! Warm and sunny. Shorts weather again finally! When David walked to scope out the RV site at Village Camp RV, he was greeted by the cutest little girl ever! It was great to see Jolie, David’s granddaughter, and of course her parents, Jenna and Evan. 🙂 We want to make a special mention of Evan’s parents, Marci and Ryan! They made the very long drive from Washington with Jolie, Jenna and Evan. It is always great to spend time with them. Evan and Ryan took us on a couple of side-by-side rides over rocks, through riverbeds and sand. We rented one ourselves one day and Kim had fun driving fast through the dirt trails. David took it out in the afternoon with Evan and Ryan in theirs and David managed to break it. They were pretty far out, so they had to limp it back, put it on the trailer and take it back to the rental place. It was a bummer. Jenna and Evan took Jolie with them almost every day on the side-by-side. She had her own special seat and safety helmet. She was a real trooper! We had dinners together, went to the pool, took walks, played games and played with Jolie. OMG, Jolie was so much fun! We also all went to a very nice dinner one night to celebrate Evan and David’s birthdays. It was a great restaurant on the side of a mountain. We also went shopping for t-shirts one day and the last day everyone was there, we went to the Moab Brewery for dinner. After the family headed home, David and I drove through Arches National Park, which was soooo beautiful! We also took a bike ride along the Colorado river and stopped by the Proper Brewery which was conveniently on the way back to the RV park. We closed on the house on the 16th of April! The notary at Wells Fargo was a godsend. It was nice to have all of that done. We played a little pickleball, but it was pretty windy there. Glad we got most everything on our list checked off before David woke up in the middle of the night on his birthday with pretty bad pain in his toe. When it didn’t get better after 2 days, Kim took him to urgent care and turns out he had gout. I guess turning 58 and getting gout officially makes him an old man! While he was recovering, Kim spent an afternoon shopping in downtown Moab and attempted to take a hike to a waterfall. She made it most of the way and chickened out crossing the river on slippery logs and rocks by herself. We can only handle one injury at a time.

On to Salt Lake City and Sun Outdoors RV Park. It was a pretty nice park, but they had a lot of RVs packed in there and the sewer hookup was as far away from where we needed it as possible. The speed limit in the park was 5 1/2 mph. We can’t even go that slow on our e-bikes. Speaking of e-bikes, we took a 14 mile bike ride on an awesome bike trail that we could get to from the park. Kim has had a problem with 5th gear on her bike for a while, so she took it into Salt Lake Ebikes and the people there were great and squeezed her bike fix into the schedule before we left. David took Kim to a lovely wine bar called Melancholy for drinks before taking her to an amazing dinner at Urban Hill restaurant on her birthday! The hosts and servers wished Kim a Happy Birthday as soon as we got there and our menus said “Happy Birthday Kim!” on them. The food was amazing and we got a free dessert in addition to the one we ordered, oops! We were leaving the parking garage and after we paid, the arm went up and we proceeded forward only to have the arm come down on the car and break into pieces. No damage to the car, but it was everyone’s lucky day that left after us!

A major update on the minor accident we had over a year ago in New Orleans. In case you don’t remember, we scratched another car going 2 miles an hour. It cost $1200 to fix their car, so there was very little damage. The husband and wife in the car hired a personal injury attorney and went after money from the insurance company. All involved know that neither of them were actually injured, but they still managed to get just under $300,000. The attorney for our insurance company said that the only reason they didn’t get more or go after us personally is because we had the entire thing on video. People like that is why everyone’s insurance rates are so high!

We did run into some snow coming across one of the passes in Nevada. We stopped two different places in Nevada. We stayed a couple nights in Elko where we enjoyed a nice dinner out at Machi’s Saloon & Grill and did some exploring around town. Then we spent a night in Reno at a Harvest Host, Schussboom Brewing. We had one of the best pizza’s ever, get the Boom Chicky Thai Pie if you are ever there. We are now in Northern California visiting family.

And of course, weird things along our travels….. either there weren’t any weird things along the way, or we are just getting used to it.