We were up pretty early, for us, and split from Yuma quickly this morning. On the way out of the park, we passed by the park clubhouse where the Idaho Yodeler was wowwing the probably small crowd with his caterwauling. It was a frightening sound. I initially thought something was wrong with the truck.
We got back on I-8 eastbound for another long haul across a predominately featureless landscape with the exception of the jagged but pretty mountains visible on both sides of the highway. After more than four hours of uninhabited desert terrain, we pulled into Tucson where we headed into Justin’s Diamond J RV Park southwest of the city. The Diamond J is a very well tended desert park with shade trees, full hookups, paved main roads, speedy wifi and lots of birds and silence. It is quite nice. There are lots of Saguaro cacti near here, letting us know we are in the Sonoran desert.
The lady at the desk, Christine, seems to be from an oriental country because she speaks pidgen so fast that it is almost incomprehensible to me. She is very nice and took care of all our needs and questions, quickly. We have very nice views of mountains and mature shade trees from our camping spot. We set up for a week’s stay and then promptly climbed into the Barbarian Invader for cocktails to reward ourselves for making the successful drive across terrain where a breakdown would be not only inconvenient but possibly deadly.