On the road again!

So we are transitioning from a campgrounds to "parking lot surfing".  What?  We are going to Olstrom's Custom Coach in Tucson, AZ for an update to our entertainment center.  Plus some minor improvements / repairs to CC. 

So we are leaving NM and heading west to the real desert.  We stopped in Deming, NM for one night.  We stayed at an Escapee's campground.  The main purpose here was to dump & rinse the tanks and fill up with water.  I wasn't sure what kind of amenities we would get in Tucson.  We have been to service places before & we have gotten a range from full hook-ups to electric only to we need to run the generator.

The campground was clean, but basically a parking lot with hook-ups.  I know its a desert and there is limited grass.  But this was all gravel with a few trees.  We got CC all set for the next place plus did a bunch of laundry.  We took a nice walk late in the day when the temperature dropped.  Saxton even caught a Tumbleweed.  Interesting note, tumbleweeds are full of thorns & stickers, OUCH!

 

We only had a 250 mile trip to Tucson, so we slept in and slipped out after noon.  The route was going to be I-10 all the way.  So this span of I-10 is interesting.  Its hot.  Its windy. And its hilly.  No problems, it just made it memorable.  First it was the big warning signs for strong gusts of winds in the canyons.  Yes they were.  Then it was the warnings on how to drive in "dust" storms.  WTH?

We came to a big open area of mostly dirt & sand and wow!  There wasn't an all out dust storm, but there were "dust devils".  They are dust tornados that just spring up in the desert and move around.  They were everywhere!

They didn't get that close to us, whew.  But I had to battle the cross winds....

Found a cool rest stop.  We have been driving through the desert.  Think sand, gravel, cactus & bushes.  When out pops big rocks.  We stopped for a break,  kids can run around & climb a little.  You know, burn energy.

We made it to Olstrom's ok.  At OCC we got 50 amp.  It's a good start.  Plus they have water and we can drive around the building to a dump station.  So it will work.

The bad news was OCC has been having issues getting parts so they were behind schedule and we weren't going to be a Monday start.  But it's free camping so we can make it work.  Looks like we get in Thursday or Friday...