Welcome to AZ

We were up early and back on the road before 7 AM.   Here is the rest area we stayed in .. beautiful huh?

Since it was dark last night and I couldn’t get the welcome to AZ sign, I got this one instead

the desert has a beauty of it’s own

going under the road to drive .. ekkkk

don’t you just love the art work here?

WE stopped at Casa Grande and stocked up on groceries before arriving at Quartzsite .. ouch that was expensive although we haven’t bought them in several weeks.

We found our exit .. Yeppie were almost there

Around 2.30 PM we arrived at our destination although we couldn’t find the RTR GTG so we decided to just park, setup and find them later.  Here is where we are parked, if in the area stop and see us

We found the RTR group, we didn’t go down the road far enough but we decided to just stay where we are for now and we plan to meet them at 10 am . 

Here is how close our neighbors are .. nice huh?

here is where home is parked for a bit

our electric out here on the BLM land is our generator

behind us there is no one .. Yet

our back yard

this is the view out our front door .. nice huh .. see the mountains in the distance

see our home with a nice camp fire to enjoy

hubby built a nice fire and one it got down to coals we dug out the stick and roasted polish sausage and marshmallows for dinner ..mmm it was good

we watched the sun go down and enjoyed a beautiful sunset while basking in the warmth of a nice fire on a nice warm winter nights.  After enjoying our fire we decided to kick on the generator for a bit and then we called it a night

we traveled 393 miles today and our total was 1590 miles and we spent $716 dollars in fuel and an additive for the truck. 

On the road again

we were up and on the road around 8.30 AM

We are getting into the mountains of Texas .. were going up and up

were getting closer and watching the weather on the internet as we do

Oh no!!  Is that what I think we are seeing?  

Yep it’s snow left over from the winter storm they had last week.  Ekkkk

we made it into New Mexico!

it’s beautiful

I just love New Mexico and it’s own unique beauty

I love how they decorate the over pass

see the pretty sunset

we crossed the AZ border and made it through the inspection point.  We stopped at a rest area just across the border.  We traveled 635 miles.  One more day of traveling before we reach our destination of Quartzsite, AZ

change in plans

It was a week ago today that we arrived at friends home where we have been mooch docking.  Once again we have made a change in our plans.  We had thought we’d pull out on Tuesday and head back to Twin Lakes for a few weeks.  We had friends coming through West Monroe on Monday and we were going to meet for lunch and then pull out Tuesday morning.  It’s amazing how our plans can change so quickly.   I didn’t get to sleep until after 5 AM.  Plus since I’ve been having so many ruff nights with all this cold and rain. 

My body just can not take this weather.  We discussed it and decided our home is on wheels and at any time we can change our plans and so that is what we are doing.  Looking at the weather, we have a couple of days opening to high tail it through Texas and New Mexico in between storms.  So it looks like we may be do some fast traveling.  We are changing our plans back to where they were before .. Were heading to AZ in search of finding dryer and warmer weather.  We will be attending the RTR GTG after all.

I slept in but once I got up got going It didn’t take us long to get things ready to roll. It was a bit on the foggy side this morning.  You can see where our home was before we pulled out .. if you look closely you can see hubby putting the boards we were parked on to get in and out with back where they belong for our friends next guest coming in on Thursday.

saying good bye to our mooch docking place.  We’ve had a wonderful time and we can not thank our friends Tommy and Diane enough for their wonderful hospitality. 

Our friends property used to be an old plantation and 9 siblings went together and bought it, when they purchased the property the previous owners had made it into an RV campground .. today it’s called …Nine Oaks Plantation and RV Campground.

Their property sits right along the Ouachita River and they have some beautiful cabin homes built along it. 

we went through town and got onto I-20 and crossed the Ouachita River

Next we went through Shreveport

so far traffic has been pretty good

going by many of places

Welcome to Texas

I do believe only in Texas you would see this .. hilly billy style ?

up and down we go

lots of wind mills

we saw lots and lots cotton fields along our way

We are parked at a rest area near Tye, Texas for the night.  We traveled 562 miles today.  We ran the generator for about an hour and watch a bit of tv before calling it a night.  Another day tomorrow