Next day Joe followed us to show us where the dealership was in Payson, but the motorhome didn't make it. Good thing we had Good Sam. We called and they sent a tow truck that towed it to the dealership. They said it would be a few days so Joe and Lorna invited us to stay at their house with them. We got a few things out of the motorhome and went back to Roosevelt.
We all decided to make the best of it and the next day Joe and Lorna took us out on the lake in their boat. Here's Brent and Joe getting the motor started.
Here's me and Lorna keeping the sun off us.
We fished for a few hours and Lorna caught a bass and Brent caught a catfish. Didn't get a picture of Brent's catfish as it got off the stringer but here's Lorna with her bass, in her backyard.
We saw this bald eagle while on the lake too. Pretty neat.
They took us to a couple of Indian casinos in the area and they both won pretty good. Lorna won over $600 and Joe about $350. I lost a little and Brent won about $200. We had fun though. They also took us on a ride to see Apache Lake where they have camp hosted. I took this picture of them at the viewpoint behind the dam of Roosevelt Lake.
We had packed a picnic lunch and when we stopped to eat at one of the campgrounds that they were hosts at we discovered that we had forgotton to put in the loaf of bread. No worries we discovered a real treat, bologna tacos. You put cheese, mayo and potatoe chips on the bologna and fold it like a taco and eat it. It was pretty good. Here's a picture I took of us having the picnic.
Well when we checked on the motorhome they hadn't done a thing and didn't know what was wrong. Brent had called Austin and he said he thought it sounded like the catalitic converters, but they said they thought it was internal engine problems but hadn't even put the scanner on it cause they didn't even know where to do it at. So Brent called our mechanic that had tuned it up before we left and he told him where it was and he showed the technican and we left again.
We spent a day seeing some more of the area and went to the visiters center. We took a couple of photos there. I especially liked this one of Lorna.
Then Lorna took this one of Brent and I.
Joe had a doctor appointment at the VA in Phoenix the next day so we rode with them to Phoenix. We left early so we could go see how Joan and Don were doing as they were in Phoenix for awhile. It was good to see them. Then after the doctor appointment we went to Joes favorite Chinese place to eat. We got home kinda late, so Brent waited till late the next day to call to see how they were doing on the motorhome. Well, they hadn't even put the scanner on it yet and it was now Friday and we took it to them on tuesday. Well Brent was livid and had it towed to a different shop Joe had told him about in Payson. We still had to pay the dealship $100 for nothing, and another $100 to have it towed to the other shop. GRRRRRR! Anyways the other shop didn't even get it till late on friday and they don't work saturdays. When we called them on monday they had already diagnosed it and it was what Austin said and they said it would be ready for us on tuesday and it was. Brent says it runs better than new. Meanwhile when we were coming back from Phoenix Joes engine light came on and he had to take his truck in. They had been so great to us that we couldn't leave them in a lurch so we stayed till he knew when his truck would be done and they had given him a loner car which was just an extra day and we were glad to do it, and it gave Lorna and I some time to paint. She had us each a canvas to paint and helped me along the way. No picture to paint from, she said just paint something in your mind. She showed me some pointers to do with a paint knife. Here's the final results. Don't be too critical I'm still learning. Lorna of course said I did good.
Joe and Lorna hated to see us go and we hated to too as we'd had a good time and I can't think of a better place to have broke down. It was great to get to know them better. Thanks so much for all your hospitality. I love the cactus there, here's a picture of one I liked.
We then headed to see if we could find Wayne and Jo, some other friends we met at Redfish that were staying somewhere around Kingman Arizona and we were headed to Pharump Nevada and it was on the way. We found them with a little help from Jo when I called her and we stayed with them two nights. Had a nice dinner with them and Brent got to play pool with Wayne and some of his friends. We made a day trip to Laughlin and I won about $150 and Brent about $40. Not too bad for a days work. ha ha.
Thanks Wayne and Jo for the nice visit.
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