June 7, 2009

June 7, 2009

We are celebrating D-Day today. We may be a day late but for us it means Departure Day and the start of the fourth year of Our Big Adventure. It seems harder this year for some reason. We are keeping the apartment so we didn’t have the imminent end of our lease to prompt our leaving. In the past we would have the movers pickup our rental furniture and anything left over went in the RV. This time we had to go thru every room deciding what went and what stayed. I hope we didn’t forget anything important.

We woke early to finish loading before the Tucson mercury rose to triple digits. By eleven we were finished and on the road north in search of cooler temps. Several hours later we left the interstate at Quartzsite, AZ. In the winter this little town in the middle of nowhere rocks (pun intended) with RV-ers. Today it is very sleepy. From Quartzsite we head north till we run into the Colorado River. The river is a thin oasis of blue and green in an otherwise very dry and rocky landscape. It has been a long day so we stop and spend the night at Buckskin Mountain State Park. After grilling steaks we sit at our campsite along the river watching the sun set in a blaze of red.