'From here to eternity'.....

6:43 am - Wednesday - October 31st - TWW - 28° F, humidity 86%, wind 4 mph out of the west.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 56° F.  On this date in 2015 TLE and I were in John Day, OR enjoying the beautiful Fall colors at the fairgrounds.....

We haven't been to Kingman, AZ in a long, long time, and Tuesday was the day to rectify that omission.  Considering the fact that Kingman does not have a COSTCO, or TJ's, it is actually a large town with a lot of traffic on the main drag, Stockton Hill Road.  We left TWW around 10 am after puttering around for a couple of hours.  It takes us close to 25 minutes to traverse the various dirt roads between us and US-66, which is about 7 miles.  While the the county does bring a road grader out periodically to smooth out the washboardy surface, it only stays smooth for 4, or 5 days, then it gets quite rough once again.  We can only drive the Beetle about 15 mph it is so rough, which is why it takes an eternity to get to pavement.  Once we hit pavement and can accelerate to 70 mph it takes just another hour to cover the 61 miles to Kingman.  The nice thing is, though, until you near Kingman US-66 has hardly any traffic.

Our first stop was a local laundromat where TLE put all of our dirty clothes from the past 8 days into one of their large washers, and then walked over to the Dollar Tree to pick up a few things, and see what their inventory was like.  By the time we finished there it was time to move our wet clothes to the large dryer, which would run for almost an hour, which was great because we needed to visit the local Verizon store to have TLE's iPhone checked for an issue.  The issue?  She was unable to enable her WiFi calling feature, which is needed here, because the broadband, at best, is two bars of 4G, and that comes and goes.  With our Starlink internet we can make, and receive calls via the internet.  It turned out to be a very fortuitous visit, as we found out the reason her WiFi calling was not working anymore was that our plan had been discontinued, and we were losing some of our 'perks'.  The nice gentleman got us switched to a plan that does provide WiFi calling, plus she now has her Hotspot back, and all for $14 less per month!

We arrived back at the laundromat just as our clothes were finished drying, and within 10 minutes we had folded them, and were on our way over to Home Depot where we made a number of strategic purchases, including a brand new post hole digger.  I'll need that to install the base for the dual axis solar array we have purchased, which, by the way, was delivered to Charles and Phyllis Monday, and will be delivered by them to us Wednesday, so it will be time to get to work on setting up that new solar array.

Right across the parking lot from Home Depot there is a Chili's Restaurant, which we love.  By the time we finished our Home Depot shopping it was 1:30 pm, and time for a late lunch, so we headed directly there.  I love their 'Oldtimer Burger' with cheese.....

.....I've been ordering their 'Oldtimer' since the early 90's......look at that 1/3 pound burger!  The service was lightning fast, and the food was outstanding.  They've always been a 4 star place in my book, no matter the location of the restaurant, and this visit did not move the needle either way.....I love continuity!

We needed to do some big city shopping where prices for both groceries, and gasoline are more reasonable than  where we are, so we drove a couple of blocks back to a Smith's (Kroger) to shop, then take on fuel at their fuel station.  We paid the lowest we have paid for a couple of years for premium at $3.29/gallon.

The drive home took us 1.5 hour, and was completely uneventful....

.....once again we find ourselves in a very rural place with long, long views.

Around 5:40 pm I looked out my salon window see an amazing sunset taking place, so I got outside right away and memorialized it....

....thanks for stopping by!