Wednesday, October 31, 2012, Tucson, AZ

Wednesday, October 31, 2012, Tucson, AZ
I got up at eight and fixed the coffee. Yesterday afternoon when we arrived at the RV Park we needed the air conditioner running, this morning we could have used a heater. I soon realized that I hadn't set the bedroom clock since the time zone change. So I had really gotten up at 7 AM. By the real 8 o'clock the sun was peeking over the mountains to the east. Did I say peek? It burst over the mountains, a ball of fire in the clear sky.
Last evening we spoke with our friends, Tim and Beth Burton, in Scottsdale. We plan to visit with them on Thursday and make the last leg of our trip home on Friday.
Before getting to far we stopped at a Camping World store near the park. We had hoped to find a hinge to replace the broken one on a kitchen cabinet, no luck there, will probably have to order it from American Coach. Before getting fully under way we stopped at a Flying J for fuel. This is the last gas station in Texas. When you leave their lot and enter the freeway you are in New Mexico. Before leaving Anthony, I did one cache. I picked up a travel bug and dropped two off.
On the Interstate by 10 AM we traveled non-stop across New Mexico. I remembered the line from an old western song, "Mothers don't let your children go to that God forsaken place called New Mexico." Of course we drove through the southern part of New Mexico, all desert. You all should know how much I love the desert.
We did stop at the first rest stop in Arizona. I did one cache at the rest stop, I hope this is one of the five counties I need to complete Arizona.

Lazy Dys, Tcson, AZ

Our original plan was to go to an RV park in Benson. We stopped in Wilcox at a truck wash. There were three trucks ahead of us so we were there nearly 2 ½ hours. There was an RV park next door, but all the streets and sites were gravel. I didn't want to go in there with a wet coach and Jeep. We headed on toward Benson. Along the way we decided to go on to Tucson and stay at Lazydays. We know this park has all paved streets with gravel sites. Gerri thought she saw a price of $20.00. Wrong! It was $40.00 after the Good Sam discount.

Sunset over Tucson

We traveled a total of 320 miles today, about 40 miles further than we planned. We will have a shorter drive to Scottsdale tomorrow. We plan to visit Tim and Beth Burton there before driving on to Las Vegas on Friday or Saturday.
Gerri made breakfast for dinner. We had some eggs and other things that needed to be used.
On a side note Gerri was born here in Tucson, 65 years ago next week.   That was 23739 days ago.

Our osition in Tucson.