And We Are Off!

Yesterday was go!  We had half packed the RV Sunday night, then a little more on Monday, and yesterday we spent 2 more hours packing in food and the remainder of our clothes and toiletries and left Picacho at 8:45am.  We have totally changed our plans - we were going up the eastern side of Arizona, into New Mexico and then the lower portion of Colorado with the thought that we would then move westerly into Utah.  The wildfires had changed all that.  We were going to be into the main path of the fires, so we opted to go through Phoenix and head north on I17 through the Black Canyon and past Sedona.  We drove into Flagstaff and then headed west on I40 towards Las Vegas.  We are 30 miles west of Flagstaff, but 30 degrees cooler - daytime high of 81, nights down to 50!  How nice.  We were suffering from the heat at Picacho - during the day it was 105 to 107 and the nights at 75.  Stuck inside - too hot to do anything.

The town we are in is called Williams and it's the gateway to the Grand Canyon.  We will stay here for a week, planning on visiting the Grand Canyon. We need to get used to the RV again which is why we are staying put for a week. From here we will back track into Flagstaff then head north around the Grand Canyon and then into Utah.  Our goal this summer is to spend a lot of time in Montana.  With luck we will be back to Picacho sometime the beginning of November.  This will give us a good 4 1/2 months to see the world.