Arizona Vacation.................

We started our Vacation this year By going down to see Lyle's Mom and Rog & Jan. Had a great time, Went to watch the Trail Blazers play the Utah Jazz, Great game lots of fun. Thanks Amy & Chris. Then we went on down to Reno where we spent a couple of nights.Went to Virginia City, great place, so we made an attempt to kinda fitin there........

On to Las Vegas where we stayed for the next three nights. Then down into California to visit friends for a couple of days. From there we went to Tucson , Looked around some and on down to Tombstone , Had a great time there we saw alot really cool historic things. (Besides Lyle)LOL The famed Bird Cage Theater, But we didn't get to see any ghosts.

We saw Boot Hill Grave Yard. Doc Holidays house. A Gallows Where they hung 7 men ,at the County Court House.

Then we got a call from home , that my sister was very ill . So we turned around and headed for home.We came back to Laughlin Nv. Then on up the road to Las Vegas , Where we stopped for a short visit at Becky's house. We spent the rest of that day traveling hard.We drove so far and so fast that I Think we drove right into the Twilight Zone. About Beatty NV we hit a snow storm . By the time we reached Austin Nv, ( I know I had never heard of it either). It was snowing so hard you couldn't even see where the road was suppost to be.So snowing in Navada is alittle strange, right . But it is Friday the 13 and coincidentally My Birthday. Lyle say's I Can't see where I'm Going, If there's a motel here I'm stopping, Ok. Let me just say right here never,never, never ,never get snowed in , in Austin Nv. We got the only motel room there was, We walked in and looked around it was unbelievable, At this point I said Lyle can't we just sleep in the car? He said Linda it's 15 degrees. So I Said Lyle I'm going to turn the beds back and if these sheets don't look clean I'm out of here. I Don't know where I thought I would go , There weren't alot of choises. So I Flip the blankets back and the bed is siting on this huge phone book, the leg of the bed is missing.The Sink was crooked on the wall . There was a back door I don't know where it went, I just braced a chair in front of it.The tile in the bath room is curling up.

By now its way past ridiculous and I'am laughing hysterically. But the night gets better. We haven't eaten since breakfast, So there is a little bar and restarunt across the street. We go over there for something to eat. We are the only people in there and we order dinner. Well ,did I Mention that it is really snowing out side, So the place starts to fill up. 3 hispanic guys had come in along with some other folks. So the woman running the place gos to the bar to get some old man to come help her. She says to him I got everybodys order except those 3 mexicans there. The 3 guys just looked shocked, but they stayed , there wern't alot of choices of places to eat or stay.(Political Correctness Has not reached Austin Nv).So having nothing but our lovly hotel room to look forward for the rest of the evening , We decide to go into the bar and play slot machines.This is a pretty good size bar , But there only using half of it. The other half is completely full of junk. It is unreal.The old creepy man behind the bar knows about four words and the are all foul. Then the weird lady form the Motel shows up ( To gamble away the money we just gave her for that posh motel room) I sure. The strange old gal who just cooked our dinner came in and sat down and started telling us there was no recession going on. By now Lyle and I are just looking at each other and laughting our head off. If we are not murdered in our sleep or something equally as aggrevating, This night can't get much worse. At This point Lyle looks over at me and says "Do I Know how to treat a girl on her birthday, or what". The next morning we threw our clothes on and left Austin NV and we will never go back there on purpose.