Awake: 6:33am Temp 46 sleep 6+57 high clouds overnight @ Pahrump, NV.
My e-mail this morning included a return message from the support group @ Garmin; no sympathy what so ever! $69.00 for a DVD to download & upgrade your Garmin GPS.
Driving the Suzuki, we leave @ 9:25am & head to Las Vegas to tour more of the upscale model homes, with a quick stop @ Fry’s Electronics to purchase an upright Eureka vacuum cleaner.
After (2) trials of Kathy using the Pet Vacuum cleaner from Wal-Mart, mainly on her hands & knees, she felt there has to be something made that is not real big, but powerful enough to do the job right with beater bar, side hose & a handle that folds, allowing vacuuming from a standing position, plus more. I think she’s found it but, it too, has to pass the test.
From here, we decide to explore the North Las Vegas area for upscale model homes; the real estate lady we talked with basically gave her location being near Farm Road in the area of Lone Mountain. OK, so Kathy programs this address into Lady Garmin & duh, nothing! Again, our Garmin is out-of-date for many areas of Las Vegas.
We choose the Las Vegas Beltway on 215 heading to Lone Mountain; after some (30) min & lots of traffic, we were only as far as Summerlin Parkway, according to the map, about halfway to our intended destination. This was turning out to be a L-o-n-g T-r-i-p; maybe too long. I decide to nix this idea, take I-95 to downtown Las Vegas, make a Costco stop & a Borders Bookstore stop, then call another realtor who has upscale model homes in the direction that will keep us out of the rush hr traffic.
Another cell phone call & another address that our Garmin GPS does not recognize. Realtor Connie gives us, what we think, are excellent directions; we are making good time away from the heavy mid afternoon traffic & only a few blocks to go when…..the road ended. Connie had us going west when we should have gone east. That’s all the touring for today folks!
Upon our return to Pahrump, Marie, the campground host, delivered our forwarded mail to us personally. She & Jim, her husband, have been hosts in this campground for over (8) yrs now & do a terrific job.
Dinner: Lamb chops, brown rice, asparagus & whole grain toast.
DVR movie: “Murder, My Sweet” with Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, etc; Powell, as hardboiled detective, Philip Marlowe, gets involved in a homicide & blackmail scheme. 1944. Kathy had no problem staying on the alert for this thriller.
High temp=75 Lights out: 11:58pm
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