After Quartzsite
So after Quartzsite (see last post), we have a definite leader among our ideas. "Buy some sort of RV and go workamping" sounds pretty wonderful right now.
We have had a difficult time deciding the best way to go home. After several discussions, we took US 95 due south to Yuma, AZ, and turned east in I-8. We got as far as Casa Grande, AZ before running out of daylight and energy. We followed the Interstate signs off the interstate. For some reason I can't remember, we had decided to spend still another night in a motel. Of the three motels on the signs, only one was within five miles of the freeway. We checked at Holiday Inn. The clerk said that a single room would cost us $150.90. We left. Drove several more miles to Best Western. $109.00. Not for us. We made our way to Motel 6 at the I-10 exit. They did not "leave the light on" for us. No rooms.
Obviously, the time had come to spend the night in the minivan. The Motel 6 clerk referred us to an empty lot next door to the motel. Very glad that we had reorganized the minivan, we set up our bed. The curtains that Loretta made for the windows fit very well. We had bought a front sunscreen for the windshield. Loretta hadn't had time to make the curtain for the rear window due to Mom's hospitalization, so she improvised with a black garbage bag and some leftover stick-back Velcro. That worked. We put pillow cases over the door windows and had our privacy.
After a walk across the street to a Love's truck stop for the restroom, we stowed our "stuff" in the side compartments built into the Grand Voyager and settled in. We awoke about 12:30 and Loretta closed the vent window due to the cold. We both woke at 3:30 a.m. and decided we wouldn't be able to go back to sleep. We went to the Arby's at Love's and drove on.
We followed I-10 to El Paso and took US 62, as originally planned, toward home. Today we got as far as Carlsbad, New Mexico. We will go to Lubbock, Texas, tomorrow and decide whether to continue on 62 or go to Amarillo and take the freeways home.
Calvin
We have had a difficult time deciding the best way to go home. After several discussions, we took US 95 due south to Yuma, AZ, and turned east in I-8. We got as far as Casa Grande, AZ before running out of daylight and energy. We followed the Interstate signs off the interstate. For some reason I can't remember, we had decided to spend still another night in a motel. Of the three motels on the signs, only one was within five miles of the freeway. We checked at Holiday Inn. The clerk said that a single room would cost us $150.90. We left. Drove several more miles to Best Western. $109.00. Not for us. We made our way to Motel 6 at the I-10 exit. They did not "leave the light on" for us. No rooms.
Obviously, the time had come to spend the night in the minivan. The Motel 6 clerk referred us to an empty lot next door to the motel. Very glad that we had reorganized the minivan, we set up our bed. The curtains that Loretta made for the windows fit very well. We had bought a front sunscreen for the windshield. Loretta hadn't had time to make the curtain for the rear window due to Mom's hospitalization, so she improvised with a black garbage bag and some leftover stick-back Velcro. That worked. We put pillow cases over the door windows and had our privacy.
After a walk across the street to a Love's truck stop for the restroom, we stowed our "stuff" in the side compartments built into the Grand Voyager and settled in. We awoke about 12:30 and Loretta closed the vent window due to the cold. We both woke at 3:30 a.m. and decided we wouldn't be able to go back to sleep. We went to the Arby's at Love's and drove on.
We followed I-10 to El Paso and took US 62, as originally planned, toward home. Today we got as far as Carlsbad, New Mexico. We will go to Lubbock, Texas, tomorrow and decide whether to continue on 62 or go to Amarillo and take the freeways home.
Calvin
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