Where did they put south, anyway??

HE SAID:

I was looking forward to parking Willie for a week and settle in with all the comforts of home including , internet and TV.  Pat picked a great RV park in Pahrump Nevada..(I had never heard of it either). It is an hour west of Las Vegas, but all the reviews of this RV park (Lakside Casino and RV park) were all tens!! So once we got Willie all plugged in I pulled out the Shaw dish and made a lousy attempt at setting it up. It was a hopeless cause.

I talked Pat into getting a totally automatic satellite dish ( one that would do all the setting up automatically). So we drove into Vegas and bought a system at Camping World. We took it back to Willie  and tried to get it to work. I spent about three hours on tech support getting more and more frustrated. Each time we called they kept having us do the same thing over and over again. The TV company blamed the equipment and the equipment company blamed the TV company. I finally gave up.

Woke up the next morning, thinking a sleep would make me smarter...lol. Decided to go and take the lot back to Vegas and try another dish. This time we went right to the TV company (Dish cable) and they set up the receiver for me and said for sure it was going to be a piece of cake to set up ..... Got back to Willie and once again spent the better part of an evening on Tech support trying to get TV working in the RV. Finally got a dude from Dish support who was talking to me from the Phillipines and he finally got it all sorted out. This was after moving the Tailgater (above) about 6 different locations...just exactly where is south anyway?   The only place it worked was on top of the RV....yup...had to climb a ladder to get it up there.  I did the dance of JOY and told the guy on the phone I could kiss him....Ahh the joys of being out in the wild!!!

Walking around the RV park with the Dogs!!

SHE SAID:

Well, you have read the above and hopefully can only imagine the excitement we had during Johns quest for digital TV.  OH, MY...I was invisioning him in caveman days searching for fire - no giving up for him, that's for sure!  As he said, he was great with the second day Tech Dude, but the first day, after the 5th hour on the phone, the frustration was cetainly showing in his conversation.  Thank goodness for success, as we were then able to move on with life as we have come to know it.

So, first two days here, were  taken up with excursions to Satellite places in Vegas.  Nothing really exciting in that.  In the trip to Vegas, we drive through a very barren area, out of the mountains, seems like it should be very clear, however there is absolutely zero cell reception.  I think we have found one of the toxic waste dumps in Nevada - just sayin'.   We will know better if we start to glow in the dark.

Saturday was spent running into Pahrump (I love that name) got my haircut and checked out a very small farmers market.  We bought some bread and home made jam from "Oma", which was very over priced but quite tasty.  I think we paid the price as Oma was really sweat, and we figured $5 for bread and $5 for jam from a 90 year old was a good way to spend some money.  The afternoon was spent cleaning out and reorganizing the RV, then to the nearby Casino for the two for one buffet - specialty for the day was Prime Rib.  I must say it was very good, and at a total of $11 for the two of us a pretty good deal, too.  John also got a free T-shirt :)  What more could we ask for?

Today, Sunday, we got up and went to the 9 am church service. The building was brand new, and very beautiful!  After church we got back and realized we were running low on Propane. It's been cooler here, and the heater has  been kicking in at night. The tank is a part of the rig, so we had to totally break camp to drive to a Propane place for a fill.  We decided to move to a different part of the part to get a better view of South, so the Satellite could work it's magic in a clearer location.  We then went for a drive around the local area and found 7 RV  parks - I think we did fall into the nicest of them all!
I am really enjoying the RV life, so far - and looking forward to doing some of the local attractions next week - Death Valley, Red Rock Canyon and Area 51 next week.