I would have posted this yesterday, but the internet on my iPhone was so slow I just had to quit trying to do anything at 10:30 last night. The whole drive from Tuba City to the campground was so scenic - I took 285 photos yesterday. I've whittled them down to 270 and then the hard job was to decide which ones to add to our photo album.
So --- here is yesterday's post. We left Trails End RV Park yesterday morning at 9:30 and stopped to get gas ($2.879 a gallon) before we left Tuba City. Then we headed back west on US-160.
We then got on US-89 Alternate and headed north. US-89A is a scenic route and it is aptly named.
Our route on US-89A took us to the higher elevations
and at one point we were at 6,000 feet with no shoulder on the road on my side - just a looong drop off. I have to give myself credit for not climbing into the driver seat with Mike when I looked down and down and
We got up this morning at 7:00 and got ready to leave Mike and Gayle's house. Mike fixed us scrambled egg and sausage sandwiches for breakfast. He showed us how he cooks a scrambled egg in the microwave - something we're going to have to try. Gayle gave us a loaf of her homemade whole wheat bread and some of the chicken & rice soup they cooked yesterday.
We hitched up the car and trailer and thanked Mike and Gayle again for their hospitality and left their house around 9:00 and headed north on US-89. We stopped to get gas before leaving Prescott and paid $2.959 a gallon.
We drove north on US-89 to I-40 East towards Flagstaff. There was still snow in a number of places along I-40 at Flagstaff.
Just east of Flagstaff we turned north on US-89 and stopped to get gas ($2.859 a gallon) before driving north.
We left Meteor Crater RV Park yesterday at 10:00. It was 33° with a wind chill of 27° when we got up at 7:00. We decided to wait on breaking camp until it had warmed up a little.
I walked over to the showers to go to the bathroom and I took a photo of the shower/bathroom. Mike also went to the bathroom and we both agreed that it was one of the nicest we had seen.
We headed west on I-40 and shortly after leaving the campground, I took this photo of Humphreys Peak.
We left I-40 West at Flagstaff and got onto I-17 South and saw quite a bit of snow still on the ground at Flagstaff
and then we saw this sign for an 18 mile downgrade on I-17
with a 6% downgrade.
We stopped for lunch at a Wendy's at Camp Verde at 12:00.
Then we got onto AZ-169 and drove west to AZ-69 and then north to AZ-89 and then to our friends Mike and Gayle's house in Prescott.
We arrived at their house about 2:00 and was able to park the car and trailer in a wide spot on their street.
Mike and Gayle took us out to dinner at Lindo Mexico Restaurant in Prescott. We all ordered burritos and then Mike (my Mike) ordered Fried Ice Cream. The rest of us were too full for dessert, but when the
We woke up at 6:50 this morning and it was 26° and the wind chill was 17°. Mike walked Tinker while I made coffee. We decided that we would take our time leaving the RV park this morning and wait until it was a little warmer to break camp. We left Enchanted Trails RV Park at 9:40 this morning and headed west on I-40.
We drove by miles of old lava fields near Grants, NM. We remembered seeing the lava fields when we were driving east on I-40 years ago.
We stopped at the Flying J at Jamestown, NM at 11:45 to get gas and paid $2.879 a gallon for premium. We decided to have lunch at the Denny's at the Flying J and parked the car and trailer over by some other RVs parked there. Mike ordered the Grand Slamwich and I ordered the Grilled Cheese Sandwich with a cup of Chicken Noodle Soup. The soup was really good and much better than I was expecting and Mike ended up getting half of his sandwich to go. We left the Flying J at 12:47 and the temp had warmed up to 41° with a wind chill of 34°.
We saw these decorated pots at an exit at Gallup, NM and remembered seeing them from a previous trip through Gallup.
We stopped at the Arizona Welcome Center to get a state map and the Welcome Center was closed.
We stopped at 2:30 at Winslow, AZ to get gas at the Flying J ($2.799 a gallon) before going to the
The winds had calmed down overnight and when we got up at 7:00 this morning, the winds were only 16 mph. The temperature had also gone down overnight and it was 35° with a wind chill of 25°.
We had a husband and wife staying in the campsite next to us and they had just started full-timing 3 days ago. Mike said they had left this morning about 6:00 and had left their water hose. Mike checked the hose and it was stiff - they had left it hooked up overnight and the water in it had frozen.
I made a trip to the bathroom just before we left the campground and took a couple of photos. Each bathroom also had a dressing area and shower and it was heated - that really felt good this morning.
We left the campground at 8:30 and stopped at the Love's station to get gas before getting on to I-40 West. We paid $2.959 a gallon for premium.
We passed by several Wind Farms and saw some wind turbines being erected.
The terrain in western Texas changed from farm land into desert and mesas the closer we got to the New Mexico state line.
When we were about 16 miles east of the New Mexico state line, we saw a travel trailer laying on its side on the shoulder of I-40 West. We were both so surprised to see it, that we didn't get a photo of it. That just
I'm not sure whether any of us got a good night's sleep last night - that includes Tinker. We had some storms come through Amarillo last night with strong winds. We did have some hard rain, but it was mostly windy. You could hear the thunder somewhere nearby and it seemed to be one continuous roll of thunder.
We got up at 7:30 this morning to clear skies with 43° and a wind chill of 32° and wind. I had had problems last night uploading our photos to our Google Album and adding them to my blog post and I didn't even try to post on Facebook. So this morning I caught all of that up before we got ready to leave for Albuquerque this morning.
The wind kept getting stronger and stronger, so Mike called the FAA Weather Station at the Amarillo airport to check on the wind conditions. They told him they were forecasting winds up to 50 mph with 70 mph gusts. We talked it over and decided that we would just stay here for another day. Mike went over to the campground office and paid for tonight. He also called the campground in Albuquerque that we were going to stay at tonight and told them to change our reservation to tomorrow night. They also were having high winds today.
At 9:00 this morning our temp was 43° with a wind chill of 30° with the winds getting stronger. At 10:45 we put the slide in because we were concerned the slide topper would rip with the strong winds. We're now getting 42 mph winds and the temp had come up to 47° and the wind chill was 36°. We can feel the strong
We got up this morning at 7:00 and it was foggy and misty. Not too long after we went to bed last night we had some heavy rain and then we heard a freight train. We're both laying there trying to decide if it was actually a train or a tornado, since we were supposed to have severe weather coming through. Then we heard the clackity clack of the train wheels and could relax and get to sleep. Later on I heard another freight train going by on the tracks across the street from the RV park.
It was still misting and foggy and 57° with a wind chill of 55° when we left Sunset RV Park at 8:20 and headed north on US-287.
We stopped at 11:45 to get gas at a Pilot in Childress and paid $2.649 a gallon for premium grade. We found a place to park the trailer and went in to have lunch at the Arby's at the Pilot. Mike had the Reuben sandwich and I had the turkey and bacon sandwich and we both had curly fries - both sandwiches were really good. It was 51° with a wind chill of 47° and misting and foggy.
About 20 miles after we left Childress, we ran into some really dense fog.
Then a little after 1:00 the map on the navigation screen changed to night and we realized how dark it was getting.
