"First, I'd like to thank whoever..."

Special K: LV is the center of the pro sports world tonight: https://lasvegassun.com/news/2021/apr/18/patrick-marleau-set-to-break-gordie-howes-games-re/

b1-66er: "They've been supporting me however long they've been alive..."

Taking headshots in a lot of hockey takes a toll, I guess.

K: Haw.

The American Screen

Great & Mighty Richardo: <8-April vehicle pic>

b1-66er: Living LARGE!

GM: <16-April> Going to be passing through Las Vegas.  Completing our RV relocation.  Normally would meet you for meal, but nothing is normal yet.  So we might just fly on through and meet you next time we're in town. 

b1: Sure.

Thanks for the thought.

How has the RV passage been?

GM: It's been great. Did some interesting things.

<canyon pic> 

Grand Canyon interesting.

I am glad that I did it. I'm in an RV park in Boulder City. Driving this is way different than driving a car as you would expect. It does not handle well in the wind. (And we had our share of wind on this trip so that was challenging.)

The finances on this, in my view, do not work. We averaged 9mpg for 2200 miles. So that means if the RV was free (which it was in our case) it would be cheaper to drive a normal car and stay in hotels every night.

You have to ask yourself: how much is the premium to be in an RV worth?

I've driven a semi so I have the background for this beast. I can't imagine someone who hasn't used gears to go down mountain passes to a avoid overheating the brakes.

Our RV had 2100 miles on it when we picked it up and the side rear was scraped.  

That is not a surprise.

I really enjoyed this trip but don't see myself doing it again. I love driving a car and staying in hotels. The flexibility is cheaper and in my view more fun.

(We had to bail on going to a golf course because of a low clearance bridge, for example.)

Those are my thoughts on RV life.

It's been a great trip, but I don't see myself doing it RV again.

Solicitude

b1-66er: Still good.

https://youtu.be/xPQJcUeG7jM

b1-67er: Neil young is soo strange.  Gigantic talent trapped inside a terrible singing voice. You feel the tension between his talent and his bad singing voice in every one of his songs. I think that's why his angst songs work best.

The right to bare arms

b1-66er: "At Las Vegas strip clubs, dancers hope to shed pasties as pandemic rules are eased"

Special K: Nipples out for freedom!

Crimson & clover

D4rw1n: Japanese maple in our back yard 

Pre-histrionics

b1-66er: "Scientists discover the "Monkeydactyl" — a Jurassic-era flying dinosaur with opposable thumbs"

b1-67er: More good news!

D4rw1n: Monkeydactyl was active on social media, worked as a sysadmin for a mid-size Jurassic electronics company, and was "a bit of a dick, to be honest," according to one coworker. But he was known for his devotion to his two pet Liassoscorpionides, Franklin and Mmzithphbbbt. "They were his life," said Lisa Pantangelo, a Vilevolodon who identifies herself as Monkeydactyl's "kind of ex."  "He was always pinching their little cheeks with his damned opposable thumbs, like, 'aren't I special.'"

It appears there was more going on in the Mesozoic than we thought 

Bolted down

b1-66er: 

"A robotic spacecraft just latched onto an active satellite in orbit"...

... So THAT'S where wing nuts come from•