We Are Finally Parked For A While (Lots of Photos)

It took us three days to travel from California to Colorado.  The new motor home did great and we arrived without any issues.  We saw some great scenery along the way.  Scout has decided that she hates Arizona due to rocks instead of grass. She started boycotting leaving the motor home.  Once we stopped at a gas station.  Scout looked out the door and said "Nope, I am not going out there until you find me some grass".  She finally emerged from the motor home when we reached our campground in New Mexico, but she still wasn't happy.  There wasn't much grass there, but there was some sand.  Our campground in Colorado has a grassy front yard and she immediately stretched out on the grass and groaned a sigh of relief.  She is happy here.  I like it here too, but I am pretty happy anywhere I go.  I know how to make lemonade out of lemons.  We are happy to be parked for a while. We have been on the go really since we left Alabama on February 16th.  We haven't been in one place longer than a week.  Mom didn't even take the BBQ grill out because she said it was too much trouble.  We really prefer to be parked for a month or so. We will be here until the middle of May.  Yes, the BBQ is out and I hear we will be having BBQ pork steaks for dinner.

Here are some photos from our trip:

Lava field in CA.

We saw this motor home a few times. They have Looney Tune decals on all sides.

This was the dog run at the AZ campground.  It was all rock and not much bigger than our living room. 

This was the campground.  This is a gravel road. Each site has four trees.  I guess that provides shade but it makes it difficult to get into your site.  We did not like this place at all.

A rest area in AZ.

New Mexico

The welcome center in New Mexico.  This is the dog run!!! 

Scout was still a little peeved about the rocks in Arizona.  This run was sand with some rocks.  Mom was thrilled that we had a fenced area to stretch our legs.

Somebody stole all the dog bags. 

Another lava field.  The volcano erupted over 10,000 years ago according to Google.

The campground in New Mexico had bunnies.  It was Easter and I got to see bunnies.

Our site in New Mexico.  You should have seen us getting to this one.  We had to go around lots of curves to get to it.  Dad is getting pretty good handling this monster of a rig.

There was a nice dog run here, but we only got to visit it at night because so many other dogs were using it.

Finally, we made it to Colorado.

Nice view, but we had lots of dead bugs on our windshield.





We faced some pretty big wind gusts.  It was a little scary, but it would have been worse in the old rig.  This rig weighs twice as much as the old one, so it takes a lot to blow us around.  When this rig is closed up, the side toppers are covered completely.  Dad always worried about the wind getting a hold of the side toppers in the old one.  He worried anytime we drove in windy conditions.

Here we are in our current site with our grassy yard.  If we get a neighbor, we will have to share our front yard.  It is a little odd.

We will take more photos of the new place later. We climbed a "mountain" today. Wait until you see all the bunnies here! Fun times ahead!

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Is Enjoying Some Downtime

Final Night Of Fireworks

We have left California and are making our way to Golden, CO. We really didn't have time to do much sightseeing there.  We had to move sites every weekend.  We are looking forward to being in a location for a while.

We are currently in a campground in Williams, AZ.  We would not recommend it because it is all gravel even the dog area.  The dog area is about as big as our living room.  There are prairie dogs and coyote.  We didn't hear the coyote but were told we would.  They planted a lot of trees here.  There are trees on both sides of the sites. I am sure it is nice in the summer but it makes it more difficult to get your rig into the spot the way they have them planted.  The place we wanted to stay was sold out.  If we sound cranky, it could be because our alarm clock decided to spring forward today and got us up at 4.  It is a "smart set" phone and it doesn't know that the spring forward and fall back times were changed several years ago.  Mom should have known something was wrong since she had to wake me up.

Here are the fireworks from Friday night.  Mom got some pictures this time that showed some of the true colors of the fireworks.

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Prefers Grass To Gravel

Booms Every Night

Mom has been taking more photos of the fireworks.  Scout and I stay inside.  We are not scared, but why chance it?  I have been outside before when fireworks happened and it didn't bother me.  You know what does bother me?  Kids riding around on those darn battery charged scooters.  They zoom past us and they are rude.  They definitely do not know the rules of the road.  It makes me nervous.

Here are the photos of the fireworks for this past week:

 

 

Tonight is the last night here.  I am sure Mom will take more photos.  She likes the different effects that she is getting.

Yesterday was a long day.  The electric here went out at 1:45 p.m. and didn't come back on until after 8 p.m.  They were able to restore power to our section, but another section is still without it.  We were told they would fix the other section today and we will loose power for a short time.  We are still waiting for that to happen.  Luckily, it was not a hot day and we were able to sit outside since it was hot in the motor home.  We could have turned on the generator but chose not to do that since it wasn't hot.  Dad did turn it on when it got home because he said the batteries were running low and the fridge runs on the batteries when the electric is off.

Tomorrow, we start making our way to the Denver area. 

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Is Ready To Hit The Road