Monday 17th October 2005

We stayed in Alamosa overnight, (thanks Wal-Mart!) Our final destination is Quartzsite Arizona, where we’ll winter. The rent won’t be bad either.

We went through Durango, Mancos, and stayed in Cortez. The RV doesn’t like mountains that much, we could only do 20 mph for a while. Mind you, we hadn’t got the engine adjusted. Once we get to lower ground, we’ll be fine.

Tuesday 18th October 2005

We passed Four Corners today. We were going to stop, but not for $3  a person. Nothing there really except for a couple of gift shops. I guess America isn’t free anymore, there are ticket booths everywhere.

About 50 miles from Tuba City, we passed through a real heavy hail storm. We were worried about the windshield for a while, the hail was so large. We stopped for a while to wait it out, we could hardly see. Didn’t last long before it broke up. There was a lot of lightening, but didn’t hear any hear any thunder.

The plan was to go to the Grand Canyon. We’d just turned onto the road leading to it, when we saw a sign saying there was a $20 charge for vehicles. $20 to see what’s basically a hole in the ground. Like I said, America isn’t free anymore.

Thursday 20 October 2005  

Passed through Phoenix yesterday, and arrived in Quartzsite last night. We parked in an empty lot overnight, and after looking at a few sites, we found one that was more in our price range, i.e. the cheapest. I had a walk around, and there doesn’t seem to be much here, but I’ve not seen all of it yet.