Ready To Move On

We have had a great time here in Moab, Utah, but as all things good, they must come to an end.  We will be leaving in the morning for Gallup, New Mexico, not by choice, but by chance.  Seems I forgot that this is the time of year for the Albuquerque Balloon Fest and all the campgrounds are full up.  And Gallup is 125 miles from Albuquerque!  Wow, you must really like to see hot air balloons to travel that far to see this.  We got the last spot in the campground, not full hookup, but we'll deal with it.

We are not sure how long we will stay there before moving south again.  While in Gallup there are many attractions, but of course, nothing is close.  We will be just at the outskirts of the Hopi and Navajo Indian Reservations and there are no campgrounds inside these reservations so we had to go into Gallup.  Once we are there tomorrow, we will ask what to see and do (worth seeing and doing).  Canyon de Chelly National Park is about 90 miles from there and this is a place we have wanted to go to, and of course, in the middle of the Navajo Indian Reservation.  We will see how the next couple of days play out.  We are sad that our play time is coming to an end, but anxious to get on with the winter activities and seeing the grandgirls again.  I know they are looking forward to us being back - have asked a couple of times - when are you going to be here?   I am sure that they have grown so much now in the last 6 months that they will all be taller than me (a little joke for them and me!)

From Gallup we will travel south to Alpine, Arizona, in the heart of the White Mountains.  That will be just an overnight, then travel to Tombstone where we will stay for about 3 weeks.  We have a recall to deal with, and some things are broke or getting ready to or need service.  Sometime around the beginning of November we will show up in Picacho and get the park model going for our winter time.

We will watch the comings and goings on our last afternoon here in Moab.  Our neighbor, the one with the reversed Class A motorhome, are out on the ATVs right now, going on some routes that were deemed 'hard'.  Watching the women get out of the ATVs yesterday and could barely move - and they were on 'easy' trails.  Can't wait to see how they are in a couple of hours when they get back.  Looks like fun, but looks painful at the same time.  So many toys here.  ATVs, dirt bikes, convertibles to drive around the parks in, corvettes, so many different kinds of RVs.  See alot of rental units, also.  Been fun.