BACK IN ARIZONA

We left home on Oct 29 and drove south to Spokane and then east and south again to Dillon, Montana.  The weather was good, the traffic moderate and the scenery was great along the way.  Through the Bitterroot Mountain Range between Idaho and Montana, the larch trees had turned gold and made a lovely contrast to the evergreens.

There was a travel centre at St. Regis that advertised huckleberry shakes so we decided to stop for a treat.  They have a huge retail store with so many items that it would take hours to look at everything.  The specialty items were huckleberry products, though, as that part of Montana is “famous” for wild huckleberries.

View from the Continental Divide

Our second day was good as well and we found an alternate route (highway 215) through part of Salt Lake City and it had much less traffic than I-15.  It was a Sunday so we assume that the traffic was lighter than weekdays.  We spent that night in Beaver, Utah.  Not much in the small town but a decent place for a night.

Cedars near Cedar City, Utah

The next day we decided to drive the rest of the way to Surprise and stayed in a motel a couple of miles from our RV resort.  The price was reasonable and it was good to be close to our place for the big moving day on Nov. 1.

We checked in to our new lot early in the morning and unloaded some of our stuff.  The lot looked good with many things different from the old lot.  It faces west rather than east, the RV is not under a roof but the rest of the lot is covered; the shed is closer to the road with a set of double doors as well as a single door and has a larger fridge inside as well as a bathroom.  Pictures are best to show the features.

Our new lot

After the initial unload, we went to the old lot and said “Hi” to all the neighbours and started sorting things out.  We had to get the golf cart charged up and get the water buckets out of the RV and get everything secured for the move.  We had a lot of stuff in the shed and started packing it into the back of the truck.  We made 3 trips with stuff (yes, we discovered that we had too much) and just after lunch, were ready to move the RV.

We got it hooked up on the first try and then Stuart was able to back it in to the new lot without any major problems.  The last thing we had to move was the set of stairs and fortunately, a neighbor helped Stuart lift them on to the back of the truck.

We worked hard that first day to get as much set up as possible and were very tired.  Hard to stop working when there is so much to do.  We lived with this “mess” for a couple of days.