RVing Through

We had a most wonderful time working our way through the Grand Canyon. We stopped in Carmeron, Arizona for the night and did laundry in their little facilities there, and picked up some groceries. We even got to take real showers with tokens (even though we had to watch the door for each other....just for safety) A local caught up to my husband and negotiated with him over this bag of hand-made necklaces. They were beautiful necklaces. He asked $20 for the whole bag! It had five necklaces in it. Each one very different from the next, all hand-made and very beautiful. "Deal"! So, today, in my jewelry box, in my walk-in closet hang those five Genuine Arizonian Necklaces. I wear one nearly every day. (they go with everything!) My camera is in the shop right now, but later, I will take photos of them and run them in here just for the sake of sharing. After that we barrelled on thru to Arlington, Texas. He did get to see the night view of Albuquerque, New Mexico. What a broad spance of city lights that was! After cresting the top of the hill coming down into the city East, it just seemed to vanish into the lights. It left little but a speckling of lights in the rearview mirror once through. It was night time and not a lot of action was going on. But coming down over that hill, the first view, was breath-taking. I am glad that we got to see it at night time. Then we went south into Roswell! I was nervous, my husband was excited. We stopped for gas in Roswell and bought some scratch tickets, they all won something! Nice. Then as we were driving thru Roswell, something strange happened. It wasn't that there were jack rabbits all over the place, dozens and dozens of them, but our headlights ont he RV went out! Pitch black! Barely any moon light to even go by. The good and the bad: it was late at night and no traffic to hit us, but no help either. Roger figured out that the headlight switch was over heating. We stopped in town. Dead silence. He worked on the lights and the rest of us tried to sleep. He did manage to get some neat pictures of UFO's coming out of the sides of buildings and a few aliens, but its funny, not one picture we took came out clear. Strange.
We finally travelled until we could not travel any farther and tied our horses (the RV) in Arlington, Texas for the night. We got to stretch our legs again and enjoy the cacti of the land and the southern drawl of the store keepers. We celebrated my birthday there. The kids had been squirreling away coins here and there and saved enough to go to the KOA's store. All on their own, they spent their money of different little gifts for me on my birthday. I nearly cried, but managed to hold it in. They bought a nice card and signed it, they bought a silk rose, a little bear and some candy. It was so sweet.
Knowing it was our last night out on the road before finding our new home, we let the kids stay up late and play hide-n-seek. They learned what wire grass was real quick.
My husband gave me my birthday present in the buttoned down RV then tucked us all in to bed for a good nights sleep.
We pulled up stakes in the morning, no hurries. I think we finally left by ten a.m. We drove straight on thru Louisianna, Mississippi to Alabama, stopping only for gas. Once we were in Alabama, things sure did get hilly all of a sudden. Roads twisted and turned, up and down. I think we snaked in around every tree out there! But we finally made. We crawled into Days Inn for the night around 12:30 a.m. We were barely ready to leave by check-out time the next day.
What a trip! What a trip!! Six kids, two parents, a 24 foot RV and a road trip from North Pole, Alaska to Dothan, Alabama! 4,327 miles! And we're all still alive and well and even still love traveling! Of course, we break it down a bit. Our last venture was from Alabama to Maine in the same RV.
Now that's another story for another day.

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