Saturday January 6th 2018

The great weather of the past few days has moved on. In its place is OK weather. It was cloudy all day and the temperature stayed in the low sixties.

Between watching basketball and football on TV, I made a major provisioning run to the nearby Walmart. I’ve been avoiding the stores since a few days before Christmas. My cupboards weren’t empty, but the cookies, crackers and snacks were all gone. In addition to replacing the items I’ve consumed over the last couple of weeks, I’ve started to stock up for my trip east. There will be a few stops long enough for grocery shopping, but there will also be a number of one and two night that won’t allow time for shopping. I’ll make one more grocery run here in Las Vegas before I depart in a week and a half.

To keep my time away from the TV sports broadcasts short, I went to the nearby Walmart. It’s only about a half a mile away, but it isn’t the best in the area. The Walmart about five miles away is much better. This store had many empty shelves with stock in the aisles waiting to be loaded onto the shelves. I didn’t see any staff working in the aisles, but there were plenty of cashiers at the checkouts. The worst part of today’s shopping experience was loading all of the groceries into the car and then carrying them into the motorhome. In their desire for speed the cashiers, there were two, seemed to put only one or two items in each gray plastic bag. I had more than twenty of them. Thank goodness this isn’t California where I’d have to pay for each bag. I only need to remember to dispose of these in a proper recycle bucket.

So far I haven’t discovered anything that I forgot to purchase. Since I don’t use a list, even when I remember to create one, I usually forget something. During the second NFL playoff game I have almost finished off some of the snacks I bought. It’s a never ending cycle.

The day’s cloud cover is visible in the setting sun.

The RV park is once again showing signs of being full. It looks like all of the after Christmas snowbirds have arrived. The early January departures don’t seem to have started yet. I know of a couple of RVs that are pulling out next week and others that are leaving the following week with me. I know that my site is booked soon after I leave so I imagine the park will continue to be full for the next couple of months.