Where are we again?

It's kind of strange waking up in a different city every morning! Sometimes when I'm laying in bed, waking up, I have to ask myself, "Where we are again?" I have to picture the campground in my mind to remember... Oh yeah, we're in Tucson today! We thought about staying an extra day and driving back to Tombstone about an hour behind us, but decided to wait until the next time we pass through this way.

Gabbi is feeling back to herself and had the pleasure of a couple of visits to the dog run. She carries her pink ball in her mouth all the way to the dog run. There's a reason I have her do this. If we run into someone else walking their dog, it's impossible for her to bark! She's usually unwilling to give up the ball so it usually [but not always] works out pretty well. Once in the dog run, however, she will drop the ball for me now without too much prodding. She loves to wrestle for it but I don't like all the dog slime on my hands.

Our big TV in the living area of the coach died this morning! Needless to say, that did not make Kris a happy camper! We have a smaller TV if we get desperate to watch one of our shows. The other one will have to be replaced up in Spokane where they will also install a ladder on the back of the coach and install our snow chains, two things we were not able to get accomplished in Texas. The ladder was supposed to arrive in Texas by the end of January but as of yet, still has not been delivered. We couldn't wait around forever as much as we would've loved to stay, if only for the weather.

We left Tucson at 11:00 sharp and drove west on I-10. Once past Tucson, we saw what looked like an airport but there was no control tower. We weren't sure what it was so I looked it up online and found out it was the Pinal Airpark, a commercial airplane boneyard where apparently, mostly NW Airlines planes go to live out the remainder of their days. It's so nice of them to put them in a warm place for retirement! LOL, they actually do that with the hope there will be little or no corrosion in case they decide to put them back into service at some point. Now that's a scary thought!

Instead of going up through Phoenix, we took the I-8 bypass and soon were driving through what looked like the Taco Time Forest. It's actually saguaro cactus but Kris called it that because the cactus looks like Ned on the Taco Time commercials! The saguaro blossom is the state wildflower of Arizona and it is illegal to harm a saguaro in any manner. I read where one fella was killed while vandalizing one when its "arm" fell off and hit him. Duh!

Gotta love having internet access on the road. I can research things we see along the way, map our route in case the GPS acts up, look for our next RV campground and even reserve it online. There really has been no good scenery to keep me from staring at my laptop. In fact, it looks very similar to the scenery in parts of Texas with the exception of the cactus and mountains. Fewer dead skunks than Texas, though, LOL. We've started taking the lesser traveled roads instead of the interstates. It gets really boring taking the same path every time, however there are only so many ways you can go and not very many at that.

You know those signs that say "don't pick up hitchhikers in this area"? Better pay attention to those. We just passed a massive looking prison! I tried to look it up online and ended up scrolling through the patients prisoners on death row there. It's amazing what information you can get online. It even had their name, date of birth, picture, crime they committed and more. There's not much you can keep private these days.

A short time later we pulled into our campground in Quartzsite, AZ. We parked next to a Winnebago and the owners were outside so we chatted for quite awhile. Turns out they are from Auburn, WA and are headed home after a month on the road. We meet the nicest people everywhere we go...



Typical landscaping in Arizona!