It was around 9:45 AM when we left Indio, CA and jumped back
on I-10 yesterday morning. It was
obvious that we were in the desert.
Mostly barren land except for cacti, brush, and the occasional dead palm
tree. We crossed the California-Arizona
state line at 11:00 AM. We planned on
our first stop being the Arizona Welcome Center and were surprised to discover
there was no such thing (on I-10!) so we pulled into a Rest Area for a bite of
lunch. I have posted a couple of
pictures that I took there as I found the poisonous snake and insect warning
sign kind of interesting. It will also
give you some idea of how that part of the country looks. You will see trees, but think of the Rest
Area is an oasis in the desert.
Fortunately, we dodged rush hour in Phoenix even though it
was 3:00PM when we got there. Instead of
going across and through the “top” of Phoenix and then south to Tucson we took
the truck route and turned south just as we got to Phoenix. It took us around the “bottom” of Phoenix and
put us back on I-10 out of the rush hour traffic.
The 120 miles from Phoenix to Tucson was just more desert
and the drive was uneventful. We did see
one interesting site several miles before we reached the Tucson suburbs. It was Panil Air Park, which includes an
airliner storage area. There were a lot
of unused airliners sitting in “mothballs”.
If they could think I would imagine they were hoping to someday go back
to work.
We pulled into the Lazydays RV Park in Tucson, 367 miles
from Indio, at about 5:00 PM. We checked
in and had no sooner parked when some of our Texas friends came by on their way
to dinner so we left RV setting up for later and went to dinner at the on-site
restaurant, which was very good (and cost about half what we had been paying
for the same in California!).
Today we piddled around some and went grocery shopping. I turned on XM Radio at 4:00 PM to listen to
the Georgia-South Carolina football game and then turned it off when the score
was Georgia 0 – South Carolina 21 and it was still in the first quarter. Oh well, it’s ONLY a football game (and a
Lamborghini is ONLY a car!).
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