Tucson......The final leg.

We made it to CCRV before noon today thanks to another clock set back. Love that Arizona time but don't like the long time difference with friends. Alas, only lasts for a few hours cause tonight the rest of the country falls back to standard time. It was a nice trip from Lordsburg, NM to Tucson. The highlight for me being my son calling and telling me I could say "I told you so". Of course I didn't but it was nice Mom could be right still. His wife had an auto accident while at a Quilting "Thing" in Iowa. I pulled up some insurance knowledge from my days in the insurance world and put some positive spins on his concerns and it turned out to their advantage.

Tucson welcomed us with a warm sunny day and lots of friends already here and more to come. Already had a margarita and nibbles with friends. Lots of chatting and catching up on what people have been up to this past summer. The best surprise of all was seeing Donna and Paul Browning after two years. Paul looks great, so good to have them both back with us and now close by. I have a feeling this is going to be a great winter at CCRV.

Weather Update

What a day. Breakfast at the Elk City KOA was great as usual. She made a dutch apple pie for tonights dessert but I didn't give in to temptation. We left to continue our journey. It rained so much during the night that neither one of us got much sleep but we wanted to press on before we got stuck in more bad weather. Just as we were leaving OK and entering TX rain hit and it rained till we got to Amarillo, TX. Sun came out and we donned our new sunglasses and kept on traveling. Wow what a surprise, just as we were crossing over into New Mexico we got hit with rain and sleet covering the trailer and truck. Made it thru that without any problems and the sun came out again. Pulled into Tucumcari, NM for gas and it started snowing. Not real bad just flakes that didn't stick. Pulled into Santa Rosa RV park and they informed us they were turning off all water at 8 PM tonight so their pipes didn't freeze. Guess next year we'll have to leave in the middle of Sept to miss the bad weather. We're just glad none of the foul weather caused any accidents or damage.

Glad to hear from friends as they pull into CCRV for the season. Looking forward to seeing everyone again and absorb some of that beautifully warm Tucson sun.

Tripping to Tucson

I'm a day late on our journey blog. I think I have a good excuse. You'll have to let me know. We started out from Lockport Tuesday morning, fairly early for us but by the time we were in Springfield, IL it had started to rain. St Louis traffic wasn't bad but the rain was progressively worse. Since we can't "dry camp" cause we don't have a generator we pulled into the KOA in Stanton, MO for the evening. The Missouri mud came back to mind. The camp spot was gravel so it wasn't to bad and the bathroom wasn't to far off. It rained and rained and rained so we didn't open up the slides to keep from having to wipe them off when we brought them in. That meant no furnace since the slide covers the cold air return. No TV since the slide covers the TV. We did have electricity so we plugged in the space heater and the laptops and settled in for the evening. Then off this morning for about five hundred and fifty miles and back to rain and rumors of snow to the west. We'll see what tomorrow brings. We're in one of our favorite parks, Elk City KOA, where we've spent more than one night several times to wait out storms.

We heard someone say today that it was getting windy driving so they must be getting close to OK. It does seem to be windy here a lot. I think worse than Tucson. At lease the trailer doesn't rock in Tucson.

I'll try to keep this up to date daily.

Oh yes, there was a really neat rest stop in Missouri. Appeared to be relatively new. The building was spotless and the people were extremely helpful. But the best part was the picnic table covers. They had a different Route 66 facade over each picnic table.