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Albuquerque

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We stopped at Albuquerque to take care of some of those ‘household’ things.  When you are traveling fulltime it is different than just taking a weekend jaunt or a 2-week trip and then home.  This is our home.  We don’t have the luxury of taking enough clothes, or food, to last the trip.  We have to do laundry about every 8-9 days before dipping into the ’emergency’ underwear supply!  We need groceries sometimes more frequently than that.  We also like to get to civilization every now and then to get caught up on our TV shows (however the satellite has really helped with that), resupply from a Costco and/or Trader Joe’s, and maybe catch a movie or two.  Albuquerque served this up for us.

We stayed at the American RV ‘Resort’ at the west end of town off of I10.  This is across the highway where, in 2009, we met the other Airstreamers to caravan into the Balloon Fiesta.  It was a nice park, it had gates for security and we were right behind the office which blocked most of the freeway noise.

That is a rock embedded in the tree!

We did take a few hikes at the Petroglyph National Monument that is right next to town:

Albuquerque turned out to be a good stop.  The area surrounding the city is beautiful, but watching the news it suffers from my large city maladies.

Time to head north a bit.

Casa Grande

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As we continued our loop around Phoenix, the next stop was the town of Casa Grande, AZ.  There is a Casa Grande National Monument that we have visited before, but the monument is NOT in the town of Casa Grande.  It is in Coolidge, AZ.  We headed to CG to stay at an Escapee’s park (Rover’s Roost), do our usual household stuff (laundry, etc.) and to get somewhere a bit warmer.

The park is a decent park, very inexpensive, but not that close to town (10-12 miles).  They have WiFi for a fee, AT&T was adequate and we chewed up our hotspot.  However, the Dish worked very well.  The camp was shutting down for the summer just a few days after we stayed our 9 nights there.

We did take a day trip to the Casa Grande monument:

We also had a problem with one of our chairs we put in so we drove to their warehouse that was close and coordinated an exchange for the chair.  We took in a few movies during our time there and then decided to move on as we had to get to Texas in for a transaction.