Day 40 – Winnemucca, NV

The main thing about travel days is that they are rarely exciting.  Usually, if there is any excitement, it means that Don has done something wrong, like get us on a road that vehicles of our size really shouldn’t be on.  So, we’re really not in search of exciting travel days.  So, today wasn’t exciting, and that’s a good thing.

Geri and Don went into Elko for some last minute grocery shopping, and Don came home with his lunch; two tacos from his favorite taco dispensary, Taco Time.  Whenever he gets in the neighborhood of one of these places, he gets all twitchy until he finds a way to score a couple of their beef tacos.  He says he used to live on these things way back when he was working in Portland.  We got underway about noon, and headed westward on I-80, following the course of the Humboldt River, which really isn’t much of a river.  The landscape was mostly desert and mountains, which rapidly put me into nap time. 

We got into our Park in Winnemucca a little after two, and Geri took me for a walk while Don was getting the rig set up.  I noticed that the park was really full of RV’s, mostly fivers and trailers.  Geri said she was glad that she had made a reservation.  There’s no grass at our site, but I saw that there was no grass at any of the sites, so I didn’t feel slighted.  Back in the coach, we all just kind of hung out for awhile, watching a little TV, and Don started preparations for dinner.  He did a chicken dish with mushrooms and peas over Arborio rice, which was well received by everyone, including me.  Geri took me out for another short walk, and when we got back, it was into the truck to head for the WalMart to get some things that they had forgotten to buy in Elko.  As we passed by the next RV Park up the road, they spied something that made them turn around and go back.  They drove into the Park and stopped in front of a coach that was in the check-in lane.  In a minute or two, a guy came out of the Park office and walked toward the coach; I recognized him immediately!  It was David (also known as Craig), the oldest son!  I was very glad to see him, and very surprised!  Turns out, Geri and Don had arranged to be here at the same time Craig (also known as David) was going to be working at the hospital here in Winnemucca.  His partner Jane wasn’t here, however, she was working somewhere else.  These are the guys that I inadvertently referred to as “jerks” during last year's eastern trip, and I’ve been apologizing for it ever since.  He was happy to see me, and Geri and Don too, I think.

We did our WalMart thing, and then went back to Craig’s coach for a little visit.  The stairs up to his coach were a little steep, but I made it OK.  After a little bit, we went home to our coach down the road, had some treats, worked on the blog, and did beddy-bye.  See ya tomorrow!