I am being stalked by ravens the size of dogs. They are waiting patiently for me to go inside so they can inspect everything there is to tear apart. The camp check-in lady says they really enjoy destroying sewer hose. Not a pleasant thought. So... we are only dumping when we need to. And since I am doing 5 loads of laundry, that's getting to be often.

Steve took his ATV to a repair shop in Flagstaff which turned out to be a mere 2 hrs away. He turned it over while we were riding in Hualapai and its smoking oil and not running real well. It wouldn't be a trip to AZ without us supporting the local economy... unfortunately..

But since I haven't blogged in weeks, I guess I'll recap our trip so far..

After our campground in Parker, we headed to a fun-filled week in "snobs knob" or better known as Lake Havasu RV Resort - an ownership type place. You rent a lot. Ours was bank owned and on the market for a mere $49,000 - for a large cement pad with hookups and a little room. The resort had two community centers, pools, spa...some lovely upgraded lots with casitas and million dollar motorhomes. It also had attitude which wasn't much fun. We were the "poor" relatives apparently.
But there was some good riding out of the park.

Then we moved about 5 miles to the rodeo park for our fireworks adventure. We paid to park in a large parking lot within a half mile of endless fireworks. And I mean endless. They set those suckers off morning, noon and night. The big shows were unbelieveable. It was pretty cool to sit in front of the motorhome with our campfire and chairs and be entertained nightly with an impressive range of fireworks. It's a private conference, but they put on shows for the public. And they test fireworks... and license new operators. Apparently it must have been a new operator who sent a couple of fireworks our direction... I mean literally right over our heads. One came down and exploded about 20 feet from us. Hence the waiver we all signed to be camping there.. Steve loved it. Jada...not so much. We drugged her each day so she didn't shake or whine, but definitely wasn't happy.

I have been the travel guide. A responsibility I would love to relinquish. Sooo... Grand Canyon was on the bucket list for our friends but they didn't want to stay a full week and they didn't want to stay in Williams near the train and they wanted to stay on the rim...

So I had to find somewhere we could ride ATVs for a couple of days prior to heading to GC. We ended up in a wonderful county park called Hualapai Mountain Park. Normally it would be snowed in, but this year it was dry and we were the only ones there. The riding was mountains and we took the Isenbergs on a 45 mile ride to the goldfish pond at Boriana mine. Also, turned out there was a resort there (resort - term used loosely) which had a wonderful restaurant. We had the BEST prime rib - which was a surprise. The elk and deer have run of the place and it really was a great campground. We had 50 amp and wifi. Only the water was turned off.

Sooo. Monday we left that campground and headed three hours to the Grand Canyon South Rim. The trailer village is actually quite nice. It's in the National Park, about a halfmile to the rim on a walking trail. We have really strong 50 amp power, water pressure that will knock you off your feet and cable. And here is where we are being stalked by huge ravens. Last night, a herd of elk wandered through which was cool. We will be here until Sat when we leave for Cottonwood, which is near Sedona. The plan is for two weeks there in one of our membership parks. The Isenbergs are leaving for home this Friday so we'll be by ourselves for the first time.

So far, the motorhome is running great, everything is working and we are very comfortable. Minus Steve' little accident with his ATV, the trip has been trouble free. But of course, we still have a couple more weeks to get into trouble.
I will attempt to upload photos.. we'll see