Yesterday we went to the Grand Canyon.Wayne and I walked about 2 miles around the rim of the canyon. Words cannot describe the beauty of it. It is soooooo massive. The first words out of Wayne's  mouth were: "Wow, I knew it was gonna be big, but I didn 't know it was gonna be THAT BIG!!" All I could say was: "Wow". We had perfect weather and a great day!! One of these days, I'm gonna figure out how to put my pictures on here. lol. I really need to call my sister-in-law......

Today we left Williams, AR and arrived at Red Rock Park, outside of Gallop, NM. We are surrounded by a huge red rock. If I ever get my pictures up, I'll show you. We are going to stay here one or two nights, not sure yet. Then, we will move to Archuleta State Park up close to Farmington, NM. We will be staying there until the 7th of June, when we will leave and go to Cortez, Co. Wayne has 2 brothers that live in Cortez, so we will probably be there for a couple of weeks. Will post again soon. Love and Miss you all, but having a great time.

Williams, Arizona, May 28, 2013

Well, today we left Homolovi State Park in Winslow and moved to Williams, AZ.  It was only about a 100 mile trip. We got here right about noon. We set up and went to eat some lunch, and went by the train depot and gift shop. They have a train that takes you to the Grand Canyon from here. We considered riding the train, but I get motion-sickness so badly, that we decided we are going to drive there. It's only about 50 miles from here. This is a really neat, little town. Has lots of shops and it is a beautiful park. AND........they have TREES!!!!! We haven't seen trees since we left Kerrville, TX. Well, I guess that's not exactly true. We spent 1 night at Apache National Forest, and they had trees. But, most of our trip has been deserts, mountains, mesquite trees and cactus. It's  nice to be surrounded by green trees. The temperature here is supposed to be 35 degrees in the morning. It was only in the high 60"s this afternoon. And the wind blows constantly during the day. (Every day) We saw the highest peak in Arizona today and it still had snow on the top. I'll post about our Grand Canyon trip in the next day or 2. Stay safe and I love you all.

We  left Hueco Tanks State Park on the 19th of May. When we arrived at Clifton, they RV park we were planning on staying in was booked up. It was still early in the day, so we decided to go on to the next town. We picked out our route and headed out. We went about 13 miles straight up this mountain. When we got to the top, there was a tunnel through the mountain. The height on this tunnel was 12'7". Well, guess what? Our RV is 12'11" tall. Sooooooooooo, we had to turn around and go back down the mountain. We stopped at a store and asked how to get to Alpine, Arizona. We got directions and here we went again. This route was continuous up and down mountains forEVER. We finally got to the top and their was a National Forest Campground. So, we stopped and stayed there for the night. There were only 3 other campers in the the campground. We climbed a mountain and really saw some beautiful country. We went to bed REALLY early, because we had been traveling for about 9 hours that day. We woke up early and left the Apache National Forest at 6:10 a.m. the next morning. We arrived in Sun Valley, AZ about 2:00  that day, and met up with Wayne's old Marine Corps buddy and his wife. We spent 2 nights at the Route 66 RV Park and decided to move to Winslow, AZ to a state park. So that is where we are now. In the middle of the Arizona desert, where the wind blows about 20 to 29 mph all day every day. We went to the Petrified Forest today and enjoyed the 28 mile ride through it. It is simply beautiful. Lots of good pictures. I hope I can get them posted on here. The internet is sooooooooo slow, but we'll see. We will be here until next Tuesday, when we will move to Williams, AZ. From there, we will go to the Grand Canyon. Will try to keep everyone posted. Having a great time!!!! Love you all.

This is our wonderful tunnel. Thank God they had a turn-a-round up there.

We left Balmorhea State Park on Friday and arrived at Hueco (pronounced Waco for people like Wayne), Tanks State Historical Park about 2:30. We were planning on leaving here on Saturday, but they were supposed to have winds up to 40 mph, so we decided to stay here until Sunday. We spent Friday late afternoon rock climbing. It was lots of fun. Then on Saturday, we drove into El Paso and went shopping for new boots for Wayne. Then we at lunch at Furrs and came back to the park. Spent the afternoon napping and just sitting around and relaxing. Then we loaded all the cooking gear and stuff up and got ready to pull out of here in the morning. We are going to try to make it to Clifton, AZ tomorrow. It's about 250 miles from here. I guess it depends alot on the weather. Will add pictures later. I love and miss you all, but having a good time. Please keep in touch.


You can see our truck way down there by the building.

 

 

 

We left Cranes Mill on Wednesday morning and traveled only as far as Kerrville. We wanted to spend the night in Kerrville and visit with Wayne's mom and sister and her family. Had a really nice time with them. Then we headed out from Kerrville at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday. We arrived at Balmorhea State Park at 3:30 p.m. It's about 50 miles west of Ft. Stockton. Tomorrow we are only going as far as El Paso. You know that Wayne has to go to the Justin store and buy new boots in El Paso. So, tomorrow will just be sort of a rest day for us. I'll update when I'm sure where we are going next.

OUR FIRST STOP

We decided that we should spend the last week before our trip close to home. So we went to Cranes Mill Park at Canyon Lake. That way, if we forgot anything that we might really need, we were close enough to home to go back and get it.