Day 53 Chambless to Needles, CA 10 Oct
I was awake off and on throughout the night. You could hear coyotes yipping across the desert. Finally, at 5 am I called AAA (it was 8 am in Michigan). I got lucky. I had double paid my dues and they had sent back the second payment. The AAA person allowed that payment attempt as an upgrade to include road service for the trailer (a little detail I had thought of but forgot to do before I left home). Therefore, we didn’t have to wait 72 hours for the upgrade to take effect. The Michigan lady transferred me to a California lady who didn’t know where Needles was (she was in San Diego) and transferred me to a lady who covers northern California. That lady retransferred me to someone who knows Needles is in southeastern California. Within minutes the wrecker was dispatched. Needles is about an hour away from where we were (Barstow almost 2 hours). Surprise!! The wrecker guy got there in 20 minutes because he had just completed a job on I40 and was nearly. So off to Needles. The fixit place had a connection to the wrecker guy (a little bothersome at first) but again I got lucky. They were able to get all the parts I needed right in Needles (I took the last of two items that were essential) without sending to Phoenix. I guess the unlucky part was paying $90/hr labor. Tom and I “did” Needles (not much to do really) while the trailer got fixed. The town doesn’t have much to offer. At one time it was a major stopover on the Sante Fe railroad. We looked at the reconstruction project of a former Harvey House. Tom gets off on building projects and he had a long talk with the project engineer. Afterwords we went to an Indian Casino. I lost $10 really quick. Then the tribal police called for the owner of my Silverado. We had left Tom’s dog Cutie in the truck with the windows down. We were in the Casino less than 15 minutes. It is against the law to leave a pet in a vehicle unattended. Wonder if the law holds for children.
We were back in business late so we stayed at a trailer park that was really nice. Hot tub and swimming pool, hookups (electric and water, no WiFi), hot showers (!) and laundry. Heaven.
We were back in business late so we stayed at a trailer park that was really nice. Hot tub and swimming pool, hookups (electric and water, no WiFi), hot showers (!) and laundry. Heaven.
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