means you are so relaxed and enjoying sitting in the sun so much that you don't blog for 2 days! We had a grand time in Verde Valley, just sitting in the afternoon sun and enjoying the breeze. Norman seemed to enjoy it too. We fixed all our meals in the motor home as we were waaay out in the country, but that was ok. Ray helped by drying the dishes which was much appreciated by the cook/dishwasher.
We had some shade from a kind of tree unfamiliar to me. It had sort of maple-shaped small to medium sized leaves and white thin bark that flaked off the tree. There were quite a few of those trees on the lower rows where we chose to park. We saw bunnies one day, but luckily Norman didn't. He behaves so well away from home that it's hard to believe he's the same dog we live with day to day. We should stay on the road.
One night it got down to 37 in the motorhome because we forgot to turn on the furnace when we went to bed and brrrrrr! I don't know about Norman, but MY nose was cold! Lucky for me, Ray woke up first and turned on the heat! We didn't know it got so cold in Arizona. It frosted the three nights we spent at Verde Valley. But it warmed up so nicely it was worth freezing.
Today we passed an area named Fort Rock, in Arizona close to the border with California. Those were stacked rocks, like on the train ride at Disneyland. But even bigger. The formation went on for miles on both sides of the freeway. Fascinating!
We saw a sign on highway 89 that said, "Coyote Wash" and I wish I could have taken a picture for my brother in law Ron. He'd have done something funny with that picture, I just know it. Sorry, Ron! Maybe next time. Ron didn't tell me that they washed the coyotes down here. (yeah, I know what a wash is. That was a joke, people)
At the California border crossing there is always an obligatory fruit and vegetable checkpoint and today on I-40 was no exception. We were forced to declare that the entire motor home contained no fruits and veggies unless they wanted to count potato chips. Disgraceful, eh?
But, we had stopped at Subway for lunch at a truck stop and so we did actually eat something moderately healthy and vegetable containing. Yay, us! And thank you, Robin, for the Subway cards! We got our sandwiches to go and ate in the motorhome. It was much quieter than in the busy restaurant. And we kept Norm company. Poor thing suffers from separation anxiety and moreover, hates to miss out on good food.
Immediately after leaving vegetable check, the road went to pot in a big way. And after we bounced, rattled and jerked along the badly deteriorated highway for about 5 miles, we came upon a sign announcing "Rough Road". Ha. Too late. Although Ray says the sign should say, "Rough Road Throughout Entire State".
We had a short day today, only getting as far as Needless, I mean Needles, CA. We're at a very nice RV Park called Desert View. It's manicured to within an inch of it's life and every site is level and well-gravelled and had a nice big concrete patio. All the roads are concrete. All the amenities are here even wireless in the rv. We are actually on part of Historic Route 66! The mother road!
Ray and Norm sat outside while I fixed dinner. It was a new recipe from the convection oven book, Tamale Casserole. It has potential, for sure, but tasted fine to hungry people. And we have enough to have dinner tomorrow. Everyone is very friendly here and about talks your ears off. Everyone else is here for the winter. There are only 2 spots for overnighters right now. I am glad we made reservations.
Tomorrow we are going as far as Santa Nella on I-5. We will be spending our first night with the big trucks at a truck stop. No hookups and no unfurling our wings. If we don't get our undies out of the drawers tomorrow morning, there will be no clean undies the next day. Got to plan ahead in these motorhomes! We may or may not have wifi tomorrow night, it all depends on the truck stop. But we will be getting in late and leaving early and we have ear plugs so I think we'll do ok sleeping. Norm may have a rough night, as we have no dog ear plugs. Do they make those?
So if you don't hear from us tomorrow night, don't worry. We're fine, just roughing it in our squeezed in motorhome.
4 comments:
Boy that's a new description for roughing it, no slides. You are spoiled. But that's not new either. Hope you had a pleasant night, and remembered to turn the furnace on!
Just caught up on my reading, even though you are home now. :( It sounds like you certainly had a wonderful adventure and I LOVED reading about (and getting jealous about) your motorhome! Hope you had an awesome time and that you will want to go away again really soon. :)
We did remember the furnace, one frozen nose was enough!
Ween, we had a great time all the way through and it was so hard to park it in the driveway and call the trip done. You just have to start saving your quarters for your own motorhome!
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