Sunday, April 14, 2013

Tucson Spring Building - (Day 24) last day

4/14/2013 (Sunday)

We woke up at 6 am starting to pack up to leave Tucson. Ryan dropped by very early mentioned to Tom he could not find the title of the RV. He suspected that Sam took it. He told him to go back and wait in the RV and Tom will drop by later with the battery to help him start the RV.

We finished packing by noon. We drove our truck to the front door of the yard and locked the gate. Tom took our RV battery and small tank of gas and went to help Ryan starting his RV. After spending 30 minutes, he got Ryan RV started by keeping on priming the carberator . He then drove it next to our front fence. After a little while, the guy from the yard on which Ryan resided for a year came over and started yelling and choke hold Ryan to the ground. Ryan was in pain and some bleeding that he decided to call the emergency. After a while police and ambulance came. Police asked Tom what had happened. Seemed like that guy is going to jail.

While Ryan was waiting for the police. Tom went back to the shed and stabled down the temporary plastic tarp some more because he forgot to staple down between the 2 tarps.  It took almost an hour.

We did not started to go back to California until 1:45pm.
We went to Food City to buy a bag of ice to put into our ice chest. We head to the I-10 West, we passed the Pheonix to the city name Avondale. Tom saw the In-N-Out Burger and went in for lunch.

I drove to Quartzsite Pilot for gas fill up, then we went to McDonald's to use the bathroom. When we went out Tom met an old guy driving a Tioga from Oklahoma. Tom asked him if he heard of Tioga George. He said he never heard of him. He said he ran out of food and money for gas. Tom offered him $5 and some food.

We kept on driving, after we passed the WinCo Food we got hit by a sand storm. Without any warning we have wind and sand blowing up to 60 mph. I used Tom phone to take a video. While I took the video I saw the Motel  6 room ad sign showing $99.99 a night. I was surprised to see the rate was so high for Motel 6, but after we gone through the sand storm. I think this rate was kind of reasonable.

Tom felt very sleepy so we stop by the Morongo Casino to take a short nap. About an hour later, he woke up and started driving. Not too long from driving, Tom felt sleepy again. Tom had to stop before Fontana to nap for few hours until 4:30 a.m. in the morning. Tom drove to Newhall around 6:00 a.m.. We found the McDonald's for breakfast. We arrived home in the afternoon.