Only 15 more days left before our adventure begins! Am I counting down now? Oh yeah, who wouldn’t with the new adventure that we will begin.
We have started to monitor the weather near Blue Water State Park and Navajo State Park. Blue Water is located between Gallup and Albuquerque off of I-40. Navajo State Park is west of Farmington. Both are in elevations between 4000 and 5000. Only difference is the weather.
Blue Water tends to be much cooler at night while Navajo is warmer, but both are comparable for daytime highs. But it appears that when a front moves through Blue Water tends to get the blunt of the front that makes the temps drop down and more chances of snow showers. We know that either way we may have to use a little heat during the early morning hours to warm up, but our daytime highs should be perfect; with hopes of being in the lower 70’s by then. Borrowing they get no more snowstorms or bad inclement weather in those areas, we should be on our way.
We are thinking of gearing more towards Navajo State Park and starting our tour there. While in the area we will go see the Aztec Ruins, do a lot of hiking, adventuring and finally putting our canoe in the water a few times.
On our travel to there, we plan on stopping at 4-corners. We will park the motorhome nearby and unhitch the car. I guess they now charge for you to stand on the corner, but for us, well it will be worth it.
But before our adventure can begin, we first need to start off with a quick visit to the Ford Dealership in Parker AZ where once again they will see why we keep going through engine battery. Hopefully that will only take a day or two.
We plan on staying over two nights in Kingman AZ. We need to look for more hiking shoes (and for me, that’s a challenge in itself!), plus a few other supplies. Years and years ago I was to Oatman AZ where the donkeys roam and I want to take Brian there. It’s an old western ghost town.
Our last week out here on the desert floor in Quartzsite we will move closer to the front area where we should get a lot less dust and closer to the pave area. Here we will hand wash and wax the motorhome before we leave.
The weather here of late has been almost picture perfect with temps reaching well into the 80’s. We do seem to get the usual spring winds that blows dust and dirt everywhere. They are calling for some possible rain by this coming weekend, and we hope to finally see a little wetness in the area.
Brian has been doing his bi-yearly check-up on both the motorhome and the car. Making sure that all the tires are up on air pressure, oil pressure is good in both, as well as all other fluids are where they should be.
We did notice that once again we lost the ac on our car, after spending lots of money last summer on it, it was a big disappointment to discover that it’s not working-again. Brian will purchase the ac refrigerant and see if that will help for now.
For the next 15 days, we will continue to enjoy the weather here in AZ, continue our morning and evening walks, look for Quartz Crystals and Geodes (which I have found some really neat and interesting ones), and keep our tan up.
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