We woke up at 7, had breakfast, hooked up, and hit the road. We were on the road by 8. Things started out smoothly, but it didn't last long. I reached down to check my pocket. When I did I heard a metallic sound. When I brought up my hand my bracelet wasn't' there. I immediately pulled off at the next exit. Thankfully the sound was my bracelet falling below the seat.
Unfortunately going off that exit meant I had to drive three miles, turn around, and then go back three miles to get off on the exit I wanted to get off on. Shortly thereafter I had to stop at another exit to check the trailer brake connection. It was fine.
After that it was smooth sailing through town and up to 60. Unfortunately there was construction on 60 that caused us a long delay. Once past that it was smooth again until we got to Wickenburg. Construction there caused another delay. Later on there was another construction delay. All in all construction cost us more than half an hour.
The constant elevation changes on the whole route caused us to get 9.9 mpg. That meant a fuel stop. I put in 10 gallons at Wikieup. That was enough to get us to Las Vegas with a quarter tank left.
The road from Wickenburg all the way to I11 was riddled with potholes from the trucks. At some points it seemed like the pavement ended. I ended up driving with either the left wheels over the center line or the tight wheels on the white line to get out of the ruts.
As a point of interest we turned 40,000 miles on the truck 60 miles from Las Vegas.
We got to the park about 2. We had a little problem unhooking, which matched the problems we had hooking up. All in all it was kind of a hassle filled day. We just went inside and watched videos after we finished setting up.
At 6 we went to the cafe for dinner. I had one of the bar tender's great mojitos.
After that it was more videos for the rest of the evening. We went to bed early.
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