We made it to Casa Grande around noon and got set up and headed to the Heart Attack Grill. The grill was about 25 miles from the campground. So we find it and on the door it says, Warning, eating here is hazardous to your health! :) We sit down at the bar and the waitress asks if we had ever been there before, well no we haven't but we traveled from Ohio to eat here~! So we both order single bypass burgers which is a 1/2 lb of burger, fries are fried in lard and is all you can eat. Your burgers comes up and you put all the fixings on yourself. Oddly enough they didn't have lettuce. They had tomatoes so can't be a health thing. After you order your burger they put a hospital band on you that says what type of bypass you are having, single, double, triple and quadruple bypass LOL! The quadruple is 2Lbs of burger! and stacked about a foot high. Even the bun is slathered with lard and grilled. Gotta say it was really good!
After our lunch we went to see my uncle David. David is close to the spitting image of my father in looks and mannerisms. It's almost like seeing my dad again. David is 83 now and is the only Uncle left on my dads side and my Aunt Maggie the only girl left now. Uncle Dave moved to Arizona many many years ago and I don't remember ever meeting him till back in the 90's. He lives with one of his sons Dick and his wife Dede. Dick is a fire fighter and has only one more year he can work for the firedepartment. They had a really cool restaurant called Nozzleheads but unfortunately the economy and lots of competition made it to difficult to survive. That is a real shame because it was a great bar with lots of firefighter memoribelia in the restaurant. Uncle Dave looks fantastic and had just had his gall bladder removed last month but is still going strong. We will be sure to stop and see him again when in this area.
This afternoon we are in Las Cruces, NM. This was about a 350 miles drive today and we got started around 8:30 so we got here about 2:30. Speed limit is 75 in Arizona and New Mexico and I usually cruise along at 70, make the miles go pretty fast. We will do probably about 400 tomorrow to our next stop will probably be in a little town called Ozona Texas. That will leave us about 200 miles to San Antonio. We will meet Ken and Kathy there and do some sight seeing. I emailed a friend of ours Malia the author of Malia's Miles she has been traveling fulltime for many years and does her work from the road and trades some writeups and advertising for site rent. She will try to meet up with us during our stay in San Antonio, she is in nearby Austin Texas.
Fuel prices have been good lately, I paid $2.09 today in Las Cruces but Friday paid only $1.91 in Quartzsite Arizona. This is much better than the almost $5 per gallon prices just 3 months ago. Total miles covered so far is 4107.
2 comments:
Tab, I bet you were wishing you would have to be recusitated at that "Hooters" restaurant. Not Hooters? . . . could've fooled me.
Hah.
Dale
'er, Tab could I have the address for that health food store.
So when we're in the area, I can go to town and pick up a Dale a 1/2 gallon of 2% milk. The interior decorating looks very appealing. It looks much more interesting than that ice cream dive you took us to in Yellow Springs.
BTW just send it in an e-mail!
Terry
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