Leaving Sacred Rocks and arriving in Arizona

Tuesday 3^rd

They started to tarmac the roads through the campground today.  Our timing, as usual, is great.  A week before or after and we would have missed it!!!  Actually, it wasn’t bad.  Tomorrow they will be doing the part by our site. 

Bryan’s ears are getting better slowly.  He sits or stands with a heated mug over his ear for a lot of the time, but it seems to be helping.  

We went to a little store in Boulevard and picked up a couple of items.  I realized today that this was the town where the recent kidnapping took place where a girl was kidnapped and her mother and brother were found dead in a burnt out house. Here is the news article.   The girl was rescued alive in Idaho and her kidnapper, who had been a family friend, was killed.  Small world, it seems impossible that a quiet place like this with such a small population could have been put on the map by such a tragic event.

I watched Andy play today and he won.   Quarterfinals next against Wawrinka who beat Berdych today.  Everyone is happy that Berdy is out but Andy always seems to have tough matches against “Stan the Man” Wawrinka as well, we will see.  I will probably miss the match as we are moving to our next spot on Thursday when it is due to be played.

Wednesday 4^th

They poured the asphalt by our site today.  Bryan watched them very carefully to make sure they didn’t “splash”  Lily or Tilly.

We went for a walk on the trail in the campground.  They have a labyrinth here that is supposed to help relax you and work out any troubles.  I walked around it while Bryan  and CoCo watched.  It was kind of relaxing but didn’t take me as long as it was supposed to so I’m not sure if I walked all of it although I think I did.  The paths around here are really interesting but we didn’t cover hardly any of the 45 acres that comprises the campground and trails.  Maybe another time, we are still working on the fitness aspect!!! 

We gave our coffee table to the owners here for the park.  It is really too big for Lily and gets in the way whenever we move and so we were glad to donate it to a good cause. 

We started to pack up ready to move tomorrow and researched where to stop.  We aren’t sure how far we will get so have a couple of parks picked out ready.  Working out the route and finding campsites seems to be what takes longer than anything else, especially when you are on a tight budget and need to keep your costs within a certain limit.  Still, what else do we have to do, right!!!!  We are already finding out that plans change frequently. 

Click Here for more pictures of the labyrinth and our walk today

Thursday 5^th

We got on the road at about our usual time of 10:30am.  It is much better without the coffee table as we have room to walk through Lily again with the slides in.  Andy will be playing as we are on the road today and so I will not be able to watch him.  I tried to get the match on my phone and managed to get livescores.  Unfortunately, it was very upsetting watching a score changing and being able to tell he was struggling to hold his serves.  I followed the first set, which he lost after a long final game where he lost his serve.  We were getting close to the campground where we had decided to stop and so I turned it off in the hopes he would play better and that he wasn’t injured in some way.  It wasn’t to be and he lost in straight sets.  Needless to say I wasn’t in the best of moods when I found out. 

When we got in our spot at the campground the jacks wouldn’t come down to level Lily.  The site was quite level and so we left them up as we will be leaving in the morning.  

Bryan is a little concerned about the batteries in Lily recharging.  Yesterday at the campground the power went out for a short time.  Our inverter did what it should have and took over supplying the power to Lily.  I wouldn’t have known the power was out except Bryan was out and met the camp owner who told him.  Anyway, since then the electrics seem to have been acting up and we don’t seem to be getting as much power as we should be.

We went shopping to replenish the fridge and food supply.  

The site here is very basic but the lady that checked us in was very nice and gave us information on the area.  It is a gravel site with a small concrete slab for a patio area.  There is a canal at the back of the campground that we can use to take Coco for a walk.  It will be ok for one night and is very close to the freeway and a Passport America park, which means we get 50% off.

Friday 6^th

We decided we would stop at Casa Grande tonight but the only campgrounds I could find needed reservations and so I phoned before we left to make our reservation for one night.  This is another Passport America park.  At least we are making our membership pay for itself.  

We called the military RV Park at Davis Monthan as well to see if they had any vacancies if we turn up in the next few days.  You can’t make reservations in advance here and so we wanted to see if they were full or not.  They told us there were plenty of spaces at the moment.

The drive was uneventful.  The only stop we made was to fill up the gas tank!!!

When we went to set up at Fiesta Grande RV Park our electrics wouldn’t work at all.  We couldn’t get any power from the post into Lily.  Bryan tried several things to figure it out but was stumped but we were pretty sure it was connected to us losing power at Sacred Rocks.  The generator worked and we managed to get the air conditioning on as it was very warm.  Bryan called a mobile technician who said he would be out after he finished the call he was on.  

Bryan called Johnny Walker RV who installed the inverter to see if they had any ideas.  Now, you may remember that we weren’t impressed with their service division when we had the work done but they were very helpful this time and walked Bryan through some different options.  Eventually, we found out that by turning all the power off and turning all the breakers off and then reconnecting the power and turning the breakers on one by one everything worked.  The system just needed resetting, so we learned something else.  We had the same problem with the internet connection and reset that as well, although the connection here is slow for me.  Our leveling system now works again as well, yippee.  We called the mobile tech to cancel him and saved ourselves some cash!!!

There is a nice dog park here with real grass so CoCo is happy.  We decided to stay here through the weekend and leave on Monday as we are both tired and the people seem very nice and friendly.  Again the sites are gravel and a concrete patio area.  Bryan went to go for a swim but the pool was not very clean and he decided against it.  Someone had put two fake snakes by the pool area as well, supposedly to scare critters away but as many of you know Bryan and snakes don’t go well together and even though they were fake I think they still creeped him out a little.

Saturday 7^th

We had a relaxing day today.  Bryan had to go and buy two new hoses from Walmart as he discovered some small holes in ours when he was draining the tanks and water was squirting out so it was time to replace them.  He went there while I stayed in and watched tennis minus Andy Murray, boo!! hoo!!  Still a good game between Djokovic and Stan Wawrinka. With Djoko winning in the fifth set.  Nadal won his game a little easier in three sets against Gasquet but it was a closer match than I thought it would be.  So it will be Nadal and Djokovic in the final on Monday.   

Bryan watched Nascar and football.  LSU were playing and won their game easily. 

Bryan discovered there are rabbits here as well, as when he took CoCo out for her nightly walk they scattered very quickly from the dog run.  Again, it was a good thing she was on her lead.

Bryan’s ears seem to have recovered now and he is back to normal or as normal as he can be!!!!

Goodnight, tomorrow we will try and take some pics of the park here.  Take Care.