We decided on staying a couple more days here because Jamie Jo and her brother were playing at a local place and we heard he is an amazing violin player and her voice is great and powerful. We also found a groomer for Maggie and had an appointment for Friday morning. We set off and dropped her off and then headed back in to town to see if we could find a couple of things that we are getting low or out of. One is Dr Pepper Zero, and so far finding Dr Pepper at all has been difficult. The other are pods for the baño in the camper.
And we ended up finding neither, but did find the local market, which turns out to be a Walmart corner market. I also stopped by the local Autozone to see if I can get the diesel additive that has helped with the mileage and the DPF filter. And again, no. So we headed out to get the Maggers.
I had asked for her cut to be light since it is a bit colder here and they did what I asked. The cut is not as cute as she normally gets at The Animal Clipper in Mesa, but at least her hair is out of her eyes, her feet are no longer shaggy, and her butt is bald. We chuckled about her bare behind. But it works and was only $30.
We headed back in to town and stopped by a couple of interesting shops that turned out to not be so interesting. Kathy saw three little puppies in the street and we circled back to check on them. They had made it back in to some yard and were no longer in danger. They will probably end up at the rescue at some point. Headed back to the park, we passed Fat Boys and saw Bozo and a crowd so we stopped there. Kathy found a shop with a shirt she liked and we stayed at the restaurant for lunch. They have great sandwiches. Plus a dart tournament was going on and we watched and laughed and met some more expats and Canadians.
After lunch we headed back to camp, paid for a couple more nights, dumped the grey and black water tanks, and then settled in to camp. Unfortunately the wind the day before snapped a pole on our screen shelter and it is on its way out. We will drag it along for a while, but are disappointed in the Velor brand, considering the wind was only about 10-15 MPH and the tent was properly staked with ropes. Oh well.
Saturday morning I actually got a lot of things done. I managed to get a couple of posts here updated and set up a mail service for us. Did you know you can do an online notary? I did not. It cost $25, but a notary from Texas helped me and I got some forms signed and sent off for the mail collection service. We will have a mailbox in Florida for the time being, and they receive, scan, and can toss junk mail and shred items we have looked at. They also will forward any mail or package to us wherever we are (although that would be costly to another country). But at least we keep our official address in AZ, but all mail is sent to the mail service and we can manage it online there.
Saturday there was an off-road race ending in San Felipe and we met the locals at the hangout and then moved to the edge of the camp. We got to see several of the trophy trucks, bugs, and side-by-sides race to the finish. We left at sundown due to the cold and that we were supposed to see Jamie Jo play at the Italian place. Bozo drove us there, but ended up at Alfredo’s restaurant (a very nice upscale restaurant) and we had some clams and the famous Alfredo pasta… There was a saxophone player playing, but no Jamie… At 6 I asked Kathy to look up the restaurant she was supposed to play at, and we found out Bozo took us to the wrong place. We raced there and managed to see the last 90 minutes. She was great, her brother was good, and we got to dance a couple of songs. It was really nice.
After the show we ended up at Al’s again and joked around with the Bartender/owner. Pretty cool guy. He played dice with Bozo again and had Bozo pay up his tab from the other night when we drove him home. And we got a sticker from his place to put on Howie.