Just my luck

Going to make a long story very short... Drove from Tucson to Phoenix and visited a friend. Then drove to Casa Grande and stayed the night in a parking lot of a casino.. Today we drove all the way to the four corners area planing a trip to the four corner monument in the morning... Wellllllllll as my luck would have it the bloody thing is closed this year for some sort of work.. Best we can do is a drive by and wave at it... I will not take photos from a moving RV anymore... have to take too many to get one good one.. So we are here in Another casino parking lot.. this one is set up for RV's and does have internet.. so it is okay.... Name of the town is something like tocoma ???? who knows.. so ends days nine and ten... stay turned for more fun and adventure who knows might even stop sometime and get photos..

Night after leaving the four corners area ( that was closed ) found our way to a small out of the way RV park in Del Norte Co.. Name of the place is Woods and River RV Park.. It has internet, it just does not work... so no blog, facebook or anything else got updated. Did see deer during our early morning walk with the dogs along with a duck. Very nice place to visit, would do it again .... would like internet next time...

Next day was driving thru the mountains.. after a stop at the great dunes of Colorado.. It was windy and cold at the dunes, and windy and bloody cold going thru the mountains... All photos are being posted on facebook at this time.. Ended up just south of Colorado Springs at a Wal Mart for the night....

Today all we did was get to Colorado Springs, and found a RV park that had working internet.. Was going to do the Cog train to Pikes Peek, but it still is not going to the summit so crossed it off list until some other time.. Not sure were we go from here, just think it should be South, or SE, SW.....

Road trip week one.

Lets see if I can sum up the first week of the RV road trip.. First day was April 1st when I got off the boat. Started with the helicopter ride off the boat to heliport in New Orleans, then a ride on the bus to the airport. Then the plane ride from N.O. to Houston to meet Kay with the RV, and off we go. First night we stopped at 7pm in an RV park that was full and had to stay in the overflow lot. This made for a long day......

Second day we were off like a herd of turtles headed west, next stop Fort Stockton Texas. When driving on the I-10 in Texas it seems like you will never leave Texas, it is 800 plus miles from border to border. Most if not all photos taken on the trip at this point were taken from the inside of the RV as we went down the road at 60 MPH... We did make Fort Stockton but once again did not pull into a spot until around 6pm.... Now I am cranky and in a bad mood... Hate long days when off the boat, days on the boat are 12 hour work days so when off like as much free time as I can get..

Day three started with for breakfast at the local flying J ( one of our favorite places ) truck stop before hitting the road for real. Then only went as far as the Flying J in El Paso Texas for fill up and lunch.. Still only photos from the road, really not all that much to look at to be honest... Then drove across the border into New Mexico, ( betting Kay would have preferred Old Mexico )... Still nothing worth stopping to look at so on we go... Stopped for the night in Los Cruces New Mexico.

Fourth day we sort of took it easy, only had to get to Tucson Az and that was only around 300 miles. Started with a stop at the local TA for fuel and breakfast, Lunch in Wilcox AZ at a small cafe that had the best salsa ... This was Easter Sunday and our waitress was wearing the most interesting Easter hat I have seen in years, and of course I did not have a camera with me at the time.. At this point we thought as long as we are here lets take in some of the local museums. Well we ended up out of luck on that one, it was not only Sunday, but Easter Sunday and as the local we asked said " we still honer the lords day in this city, everything is closed today "... So back on the road, next stop Tucson AZ... Made it to Kay's son's place sometime around 4 or 5 pm not sure because of at least two time changes... Setup the RV in the yard, spent a short amount of time with the folks and called it a day.

Monday.... Day 5..... Big deal today was doing my taxes... this took the better part of the morning before I felt somewhat comfortable enough to send it off.. Really really hate taxes.... The afternoon was used to go rent a car for the time we are to stay here ( Friday ), picked one up at the Tucson airport then drove around checking things out until around 5pm when I headed back to base and dinner for the night.. Tom Kay's son made pasta..... So ends the day.

Tuesday Day 6... This day was spent running around town finding things we forgot to take with us and just looking around the general area... Have friends we are trying to contact to visit at least for a short time well we are in the area.. Had a great lunch at the Grand Buffet (Chinese )

.... He he... got my Sushi and was my tummy full... :)

Back to base and checking emails and making phone calls to set up the rest of the week and visits.

Wednesday Day 7... Today I had lunch in Casa Grande with my sisters, have not seen since my last visit three years ago.. had a nice time and a good meal. After lunch we went back to Tucson .. Stopped at an RV place to get some things needed along with information about how much things will cost to have done, if we decide to do them.. Looked for and found a Chinese Restaurant that Helen likes ( Tom's wife ) ... Found the place by shear dumb luck!!! Got enough takeout to serve a small Army and back to base for dinner and the end of another day..

Thursday Day 8... okay over a week... All we did today was visit a friend in Green Valley, that I have not seen in three years, was nice to see her again and see that she was doing okay. She and Kay seemed to hit off so that was also good.. Then back to the RV.. Will be pulling out for Phoenix tomorrow..

All Photos of the trip are posted on facebook...