Hooray! On the Road Again!

Well, we did it! It was a struggle, but we made it. Things actually were going pretty good until we went to raise the jacks -- and had no power. The batteries were dead! So had to move the car close to the back of the RV, close enough to use the jumper cables (Thank goodness, I was able to remember where I had put the bag with the jumper cables that I had stuck under my tricycle in the back of Toad II.) to start the RV.

Got the jacks up, the jack pads picked up and the water, electricity and sewer detached and put away and the propane turned off. Forry pulled out onto the street and parked so that we could hook up Toad II. But where were the pins for the tow bar? I known that I put them in a zip lock bag along with the padlocks, but where was the bag? (I had originally wanted to totally empty out the back of Toad II and repack when we put the trike and the chairs in, but someone else thought that was too much work...) Finally, after almost totally emptying everything but the trike, Forry found it under his seat.

By this time it was almost noon and over 90 degrees. I was dripping wet by the time we had everything hooked up and I had checked to make sure all the turn and brake lights, front and back worked. It was hard to believe we were finally back on the road! It was bright and sunny and hot when we left Mesa --

Many of the trees along the freeway were in bloom and everything is green --

But it wasn't long before we were out in the desert as we went along Highway 101 to Highway 17 --

Then we started to climb through the foothills and began to see juniper trees and not so much green --

 
Later in the afternoon, it started to get windy --  and dusty! The last thirty miles after we had turned onto Highway 40 towards Meteor Crater RV Park were pretty miserable.

This is the view from the front window of Auntie Violet. It was so beautiful to watch the changing

colors as the sun set.

The wind has finally dying down, but it is going to be cold tonight. The weather forecast is for near freezing at this altitude. And to think that last night we were trying to sleep with the windows open and the fans on...

As we traveled, we got sporadic reports of the bombings in Boston. I cannot understand the inhumanity of some of these psychos! Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families and all of the first responders and medical personnel!