[Richard and Rhonda]

My lovely bride Rhonda usually measures our vacations in tangible ways. Here is her accounting of the Creede trip.

# Newell RV’s attending rally in Creede Colorado – 10 (Bells, Entrekins, Gookins,

Hockwalds, McClouds, Olivers, Russos, Skeens, Wards & Zonkers)

# People who came (because we are such a fun group) even though they don’t own

a Newell – 2 (Nita Zonker & Michael)



# RV’s worked on by Richard – 5 (Entrekin’s generator, Russo’s ride height valve &

shock, Darlene McCloud’s seat, Hockwald’s AC & Skeen’s AC)

# Gashes in Richard’s head – 1 (from a decorative statue in a RV he didn’t even work

on)



# Evenings Richard left the RV door open – 1

# Bugs Alex killed with the fly swatter that night – 56

# Bugs Richard sucked up with the vacuum cleaner – 217

# Subsequent evenings Richard left the RV door open – 0



# Glasses of homemade root beer prepared by Tom – 60

# Glasses drank by Alex – 8

# Laps Alex took around the campground to alleviate the sugar high – 2



# Books read by Alex – 4

# Books read by Rhonda – 1

# Books read by Richard – 0



# Miles Richard rode his bicycle – 80

# Miles hiked by Rhonda – 0 (O.K. my triple broken ankle is not healing as fast as I

would like)



# Times Alex drove the Honda “R” – 5 (it used to be a CRV, but the C & V fell off)

# Learning permits or driver’s licenses held by Alex - 0

# Accidents, close calls or terrified passengers - 0

# Scratches found on my car (borrowed by Ty) when we returned home – 2



# Times the wind blew up the TV antenna on the way home – 7

# Times the big awning tried to deploy while going down the road – 1

# Times the refrigerator door opened up expelling Darlene’s salad and a smuggled

jug of Tom’s root beer - 1