We hopped up this morning and departed from Yuma’s Adobe Sunset RV Park. I am at a loss to describe an “adobe sunset” as anything other than a brown mud brick late afternoon’s lighting. Hmmm. We continued our trip east on I-8 up the gradual climb from Yuma (elevation 300′) through Gila Bend and Casa Grande (elevation about 1700′) until turning southeast on I-10. The gradual climb continued until we pulled into the Wishing Well RV Park in Catalina, a small town north of Tucson (elevation 2500′).
I am old and chicken so I did not drive along the Arizona freeways at the posted speed limit of 75, but do almost religiously stay in the slow lane and averaged about 67 which seems to be almost supersonic compared to the maximum speed for trailers in California of 55 mph. With an empty schedule like ours, there just doesn’t seem to be any reason to push the truck harder merely to change our arrival time. We think we get to see more stuff that way, too.
We were setting up our fifth wheel trailer in the Wishing Well when Peggy noted that the loud thump from the roof we heard a week or two ago was not merely a sound. After removing a skylight insulating pillow from the skylight, it was evident the dome was fractured. The weather report speculated that a large storm is headed our way Saturday night. We broke out the roofing repair supplies and Peggy crawled up on the roof and fixed the skylight, at least from a waterproofing standpoint. We also had a wayward gasket over our living room slideout and we spent a part of the afternoon trying to secure it in the proper position. We will know if we were entirely successful when we fold up our trailer for travel in about a week.
The Wishing Well RV Park does not seem to have wi-fi but it does have full utility hookups. It is right next to Oracle Road which is a pretty busy north-south multi-lane highway. Traffic pretty much died down in the late evening but a Circle-K store and gas station on one side of the park does spit out some assholes with pickup trucks having very loud exhaust systems operating at nearly full throttle. They are very easy to hear within the park.