The Elk’s RV Park is about 4 miles from Merced and it’s very quiet out here in the country. I don’t know what used to reside on this property, but it’s surrounded by orchards of some sort and there are orange trees that are loaded and available to us to take what we want. I’ve tried a couple, and the oranges are very good. I’m saving a couple of them for Larry and Sue who led us to this park. Thanks.

Today we took a trip to the nearest Best Buy so I could get a couple of devices to solve a problem created by not closing the door on our Dish receiver. It’s pretty exciting when we do that because it falls out of the cabinet after the first bump in the road and dangles in front of my face. Driving down the highway with a Wally hanging in front of my face is tricky. You’d think seeing that open cabinet would be so easy to do, right? But, it’s escaped our view more than once. I’ll add that it hasn’t happened in a long while, but when it did, the external hard drive we use as the DVR reached the end of it’s short USB cord and broke the USB connecter on the receiver. There’s another port that still works fine, but we need two of them now. So, I purchased a USB hub to solve the problem. It’s plugged into the good port and the DVR and a Dish Wi-Fi fob is plugged into the HUB and there are two empty spots. Guess I’ll have to figure out what else I can attach, now.

Boring stuff, right? Sorry about that. I just have to report things. This one was serious because Diane had things recorded on the DVR that she wanted to watch. The Wi-Fi device is necessary for us to get NETFLIX on the Dish receiver. That’s what we’ve been using to binge watch the “White Collar” series. We’re on the last season right now. It’s been a fun trip and we’ll be sad to see it end because then we’ll have to find a new show.

The other device I got was another fob-like thing that plugs into my iPhone and iPad so I can capture all the photos on those devices. I don’t know how many photos are on my iPad, but there are over 62,000 on my phone. Ridiculous, I know, but that’s OK. I take lots of photos. Sometimes I even go back and look at some of them.

After I was done at Best Buy Diane drove us right back to the RV park without using the GPS. It was a test, and she passed it with flying colors. She’s very good at remembering routes and doesn’t get turned around like I do. That makes her the best navigator ever.

Gotta get to sleep now. Tomorrow is another grueling drive. We’re going to the Lodi Elks Lodge. It’s about 83 miles away so it’s going to take about 2 hours to get there. But we need to get fuel for the bus before we go. Should have filled up before leaving NAS Lemoore but we both forgot. With the fuel detour we should make it in 3-4 hours easy.

Just for fun, here’s an antique RV in the park.

See you tomorrow.