Sep 16, 2018 - Cottonwood, AZ

Sun, 16 Sep: Another road day, albeit short-ish... With another time change we were up early this morning. We got ourselves ready for the day, fed, the coach ready for the road, and rolled wheels at 0820. We were only a few hundred meters from the on-ramp to I 40 so in short order we were on cruise control rolling westward toward Flagstaff. The truck traffic was fairly heavy for a Sunday morning. But they all flowed around us without a hitch and all was well. Near Crater National Monument we switched drivers and Bob continued west on I 40...

Sep 16, 2018 - Leg #35 YUMA !

/// Leg #35: 278 miles; 5 hrs. Route was around Phoenix and across I-8. Road conditions were very good, we even hit a few miles of freshly repaved roadways. Traffic was surprisingly light. Weather - yup HOT.....! We are back safely. Will be busy for a few days getting unpacked, settled and storing the Silver Twinkie. Post in process......... More later.

Sep 15, 2018 - Sun Valley, AZ

Sat, 15 Sep: Happy Birthday to Shel & Stacy... A road day! Up early-ish and perform our morning routine plus getting ready for the road. Once our checklists were complete Sandi carefully backed out of our site. The trees in this park are so numerous that driving forward would not have worked very well. Backing out was the prudent option. Once clear we connected the car, performed our brake & lite checks, and were ready to go. Sandi pulled out of the RV park at 0845 and headed east on the frontage road to the on ramp and in short order we...

Sep 13, 2018 - Leg #34 Check Engine Light

/// Thursday - September 13, 2018 Yesterday was a frustrating day. Woke early this morning and we were hooked up and on the road shortly after 6:00 am. Our route today would be west on I-40 for approximately 15 miles and then south on Hwy 89 to Prescott. The road conditions today were rough. Traffic was light until we approached Prescott. My GPS gave some poor directions and after a couple of u-turns and turn arounds we finally arrived at our destination shortly after 8:00 am. We traveled 75 miles. Check-in was very simple and we were soon...

Sep 12, 2018 - Williams, AZ

/// Wednesday - September 12, 2018 A Travel Day: Woke to beautiful blue skies and we took our time breaking camp and preparing for today's trip. By 9:30 A.M. we departed Show Low and took our back trail to Flagstaff and then continuing west on I-40. The road conditions were mostly okay but we did hit a few rough spots and some road construction west of Flagstaff. We also encountered a strong head wind. We have not had to deal with much wind all season. Departing Show Low I noted that the engine in the Ford F-350 was running a little rough....

Sep 9, 2018 - Show Low, AZ

/// Sunday - September 9, 2018 A Travel Day: I have to say that our stay at J&H RV Park was nice. I was impressed with the neatness of the sites, friendly residents and well maintained facilities. It is pricey though. $55. for a night stay. I guess the finishing touch was a Thank You note taped to our door this morning, thanking us for our stay. Today's trip will be a 140 mile haul, east to Show Low, AZ. We have visited the Show Low region previously when we stayed in Heber/Overgard. I suppose we really did not really appreciate all that...

Sep 8, 2018 - Flagstaff

/// Saturday - September 8, 2018 A Travel Day: We departed Kanab, UT earlier than planned and made good time traveling east on Hyw 89 towards Page, AZ Our route today would be all on US Hwy 89. The estimated distance of approximately 200 miles. The road conditions were very nice across southern Utah but rough from Page, AZ most all the way to Flagstaff. We stopped just twice. Once to kick the tires and clean the windshield and our second stop was at the Cameron Trading Post. This is always a favorite stop. We ate our light lunch in the...

Sep 6, 2018 - Almost Made It !!!

Yesterday we almost made it to California. We drove 5 hours and put 240 miles behind us and if we would have drove another minute or two we would have been in California. We decided to stay at River Breeze RV Resort on the east side of the Colorado River and we're so close because the west side of the river is California. We have another 110 miles to drive today and could have made it yesterday but 240 miles is about the max for us anymore. - We were here at River Breeze back in 2006 when we first hit the road. We paid for a month over...

Sep 5, 2018 - Today was huge

/// Wednesday - September 5, 2018 A Lucky Day.....! We started the day off with a visit to the local US Dept. of Interior, BLM office, to make an application for the draft lottery for a hiking permit to the "WAVE." I have previously applied for a permit twice on line. This process is in person. A total of 20 hikers are permitted daily. Ten from on line lottery and ten for the in person lottery. We sat anxiously as the crowd of applicants steady grew. After an orientation by a BLM employee applications are taken for each party of hikers. I...

Sep 2, 2018 - BULL HEAD CITY

Aug 18th 2018 The day after our cruise was a lost day we did a little shopping and dinner at PF Changs then home for the evening. Aug 19th 2018 Sunday Our last day in Bothell Washington at the lake pleasant rv park, we met up with Texas friends Dick and Patti who just returned from their Alaska cruise. We head out tomorrow for Roseburg,  Washington for 3 nights  starting our trip back to Florida. Aug 20th 2018 Drove 390 miles today staying at the Rising River RV Park in Roseburg, Oregon full hook ups 50 amps. $118. For 3 nights. Nice site...

Sep 2, 2018 - End of Trip

On August 14th we made the decision to turn around and head back south. The British Columbia wild fires had created so much smoke that we could not do any activities outside. We were actually in B.C. for about 5 days and as we traveled north the smoke got considerably worse. Each day on the news we would hear of new wildfires. When we were staying at Oliver, B.C. there was an airport across the street from us and every few hours 3 helicopters would land and refuel and take off with baskets of water from the nearby lake. Rick went over and...

Aug 31, 2018 - Out Of Africa

Lions, Tigers and Bears....but no Elephants or Hippos...apparently they left Africa too early. It's a good thing that Judy got in free because it was her birthday month because we both thought it was way overpriced. I paid $29 and that was even too much for the two of us. Oh well, live and learn. - We're winding down our time here and soon we'll be leaving for our beloved California. By this time next week we hopefully will be back in Paradise. See ya soon. - Happy Trails, Bob, Judy and Our3dogs p.s. Short entry.. watching John McCain's...