The Adventure Turns Interesting …

Thursday we drove to Williams, AZ and stayed Grand Canyon Railway RV Park. Very upscale park with a lot of spaces. The drive-thru that we got was long enough for both tow vehicles and both trailers without unhitching either of them. About 30 minutes after retiring for the night we realized why the name includes “Railway” as a train sounded its horn and barrelled past about 80 miles per hour … clickety clickety clickety!!! Fortunately only 3 trains went by that night – I counted each one. The fourth went by about 5:30 AM after we got up.

Friday, onward to Dancing Eagle Casino RV Park in Casa Blanca, NM. Little did we know what adventures awaited us on the way. Larry missed the first fuel stop of the day as he blew by it thinking the exit was one more mile up the road. On fumes, we cruised two more miles, made a u-turn and returned.

At lunch time Larry decided to pull of on a little used off-ramp / road (there was a reason). You fire fighters remember the ‘narrowing alley’ maneuver in driver training?! well, that was kind of our experience. The frontage road was two lanes with guard rails on both sides, about 1/2 mile long and then dead ended at a ‘turn-around.’ But, the turn around was really a wide spot at the gate made of recent soft fill dirt. Did I mention that it had rained that morning? Just as Larry was unhooking Sue’s car to pull him out of the mud, a Good Samaritan with a 1 ton Dodge Ram came driving up. He had seen our predicament from the freeway and decided to see if we needed help (it was pretty obvious as the truck was in the mud and the trailer jack-knifed tight behind it?). After he pulled us out we chatted briefly; turns out that they had just dropped their son at the Phoenix campus of UTI (our son, John, graduated from the Sacramento UTI campus). Lunch and on the road again!

Arrived at Dancing Eagle Casino RV Park. Space rental was $17.02 (why .02?). We took one space for each vehicle / trailer combination; the park was nice and did not charge us for the second space. So far, so good. Dinner at the highly acclaimed restaurant in the casino was kind of a bust. We had the soup / salad bar. Larry got some of the Ceasar Salad; however, it was premixed with the dressing and croutons all together. Probably made an hour or two before we arrived … lettuce wilted and bitter, of course the croutons were like eating mush. However, he survived on cottage cheese and canned peaches – yep at the soup / salad bar! We stood in line after we ate just to get our ticket from the waitress. Not our best experience …

Back to the trailer to rest. About an hour into our rest, Sue noticed water on the floor – never a good thing. Did I mention that it rained on us? After digging around the plumbing, removing inspection plates inside and outside, Larry was able to eliminate leaking plumbing; however, not yet sure where it came from. Oh well, the joys of living in a rolling earthquake.

We crossed from New Mexico to the Republic of Texas this afternoon and are now set up in Muleshoe … more on this tomorrow or the next day.

Stay tuned …