Thursday March 15th
I was up fairly early and began the routine of getting everything stowed again for the move. We are headed for Blythe, CA today on the way to my cousin John’s near Palm Springs, CA. I don’t have his address yet but did call his sister Nancy in Moses Lake, WA and should have the address by tomorrow. After breakfast I decided to get a few things at the grocery store and went down to Fry’s and got the stuff and pretty much wasted the better part of an hour that should have been used to get rolling.
We did get on the road about 12, which is the official checkout time. We were within a mile of the 101 Freeway which is the beltline highway that connects I-17 on the N side to I-10 on the W side of Phoenix. The trip was pretty uneventful except that we didn’t do a good job of checking off our “Pack-up” checklist. The refrigerator door and the freezer door were not latched and both came open during the trip, resulting in a lot of stuff rolling around on the floor when we got to our destination. Fortunately there was no breakage and the biggest mess was the ice cubes that melted on the floor.
We set-up in the KOA in Blythe, CA, just on the W side of the Colorado River. Cathey was a little surprised that the Colorado wasn’t larger than it was, but that’s because everybody along its banks is taking water out of it from Colorado to here. We were pleasantly surprised that our campsite had grass on it. That is the first grassy campsite that we have had on this trip. Typically they are covered with pea gravel with a concrete patio pad. I think the high temp today was 87 so once we were set up we just sat in the shade and had a couple of wine coolers. The park manager had invited us to a pot luck supper that they were having but we didn’t make it over there – not much interest in eating after a hot day.
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