We generally can make it a week between laundry runs - Living in the RV full time.
We waited almost a day too long this time, as we used up the last of our clean underwear this morning. We had planned on laundry yesterday, Monday, but ran out of time before we got busy with other things, like dancing.
Side note: We have been amazed at the amount of dancing going on out here in white and silver-hair land. Back in Albuquerque the Caravan East and Cowboys dance halls both closed years ago and its been hard to find anywhere to dance except for such nightclubs like the Caravan and Cowboys, and now even those have gone out of business. Yet out here where few are under the age of 60 and the average age must be somewhere north of 75, there are dance clubs and parties all around.
In Quartzsite, we only spent a little over a week but went to at least 4 dances. The senior center has dances every Thursday and we learned (at the last minute) there were also weekly dances every Friday night at the Gold Star RV Co-op. One Thursday night we were hungry and decided to dine at Silly Al's Pizza. Of course, since this is the BUSY season, we had to wait over half an hour to get a table. Just as we were being seated, a 3-piece band materialized and began pounding out snappy old Rock 'N Roll and Country/Western tunes. The dancing area was small, but the toe-tapping got us on our feet and we danced until the waitress appeared at our table and danced some more while we waited for our meal and - by the time we were served, it was almost too late to make it to the Senior Center before THAT dance ended, so we stayed and danced some more at Silly Al's. It was a BLAST, and both young and old were keeping the dance floor crowded. Why can't there be more of this kind of action "back in the real world" where retirees don't outnumber workers by 10 or more to 1 ?
Down here in Yuma, farther south, we only know of a couple dances per week but have no doubt there are others we don't know about.
Anyhow, today we didn't dance, though we did last evening (Monday). We loaded one big bag of laundry again on Jacque's trike and the other on mine and rode 3.5 miles over to the closest laundromat. Jacque did the laundry and I sat and read my smarty-phone until she was done (about an hour or so). Then we loaded up the spun (still wet) laundry in the same baskets and rode back to the RV and hung the laundry on ropes strung across the awning bars on the entry-side of the RV. A few hours later and they were nice and dry in spite of the partly cloudy day.
Ride Started: 11:51 AM Ride Ended: 1:47 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage: 13.5 Ending Voltage: 12.9 Lowest: 12.9 (Solar charging only)
Lowest Temp 60 F Highest Temp: 67 F
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 6.96
Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed
5.4 MPH 6.2 MPH 18.0 MPH
Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time
1 hour 17 mins 1 hour 7 mins 10 minutes
(The GPS was shut off during the laundry stop, so laundry time is not accounted for)
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