Wednesday, July 18, 2007

We left Vail at 6:15 PM, our goal was to get through Phoenix in the evening when there was not much traffic. We whizzed through Tucson without trouble, just before we got to Casa Grande we could see a dark cloud off in the distance. A couple of days earlier we had heard that Phoenix was experiencing a large dust cloud making it almost impossible to see. We drove into the edge of the dust cloud, the visibility wasn’t great, but was not so bad that we had to stop. When we stopped at the rest stop and got out of the car it was so hot, I though someone has put a hot iron on the seat of my pants.

We passed though Phoenix without a problem, it was hot, 111 at 9:30. We drove on to Wickenburg and spent the night in a local RV park, the first thing we did once we got into our spot was turn on the AC and cool the trailer, dogs and us down.

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Today was a travel day, we left Wickenburg about 6:15 AM and drove toward Reno. We had planned on stopping in Tonapah for the night, but decided it was too early to stop and continued on, next we planned to stop in Hawthorne, but we quickly changed our minds again and decided to continue on to Reno. We got into Reno about 8:30, got set up, dogs walked and in bed by 10:00, it was a long day. The traffic was light most of the trip, even Las Vegas traffic wasn’t bad. We didn’t see any wildlife along the way, just a few birds and it was easy to see why, not much could exist in these conditions, it was hot, lacked water and didn’t look very inviting.