Day 3234

 I woke up a little before 7 and got up to get dressed and have breakfast.  Then I went out to hook up.  The process went on as it usually did and we were on the road a little before 8.

Traffic was light and we made good time through Bolder, the bridge, and up the other side of the canyon. We did hit a head wind that was with us for the whole day.  It killed mileage enough that I stopped at the stations on the flat after the climb.  I filled up (6 gal.).  It later turned out that I didn't need to, but it made me feel better.

The road continually deteriorated.  The right lane was so wrecked that i started using the left lane when possible.  In addition the headwind continued to limit mileage to 9 or less.  Going through Kingman was the usual pain in the ass although I did get lucky getting in front of some trucks on the I10 entrance.

The road down from I10 was a crappy as the one to Kingman.  There was little traffic, so I ended up driving down the middle of the two lanes on the divided section.  I'd move over whenever someone came up on me.  Of course I couldn't do that on the 23 mile 2 lane section.  There the road just beat us up.

Wickieup is a real pain in the ass.  They've changed the highway north of the town into a series of 5 to 10 roundabouts.  The speed limit is 35.  I needed fuel but all of the stations were jammed.  Fortunately I was able to fill up at the last station at the end of town.  It didn't have any people and had the cheapest fuel in town.

From there everything was pretty smooth sailing.  Traffic was a little heavy on I10 in Phoenix. We took a new bypass that loops from I10 around downtown to the west, and reconnects to I10 below Chandler.  It's shorter and doesn't have much traffic at all.

The two lane part of I10 was a solid mass of cars.  The good news was that everyone was moving a 65 or over except for a couple of short slow parts.  Traffic in Tucson was light also.  We ended up making the trip in a little less than 7 hours.

Trouble started when we set up.  The bedroom slide wouldn't go out.  There was a trailer repair guy there an he said that the slideout mechanism is trashed.  It will take at least a week to get parts and a day to fix it.  I said go ahead and find out about ordering the parts.  Hopefully they can get the parts and fix it after Nationals.  That means we'll have to drive back here, but OK.  The repair guy can also fix the refrigerator and replace the microwave.

We took the dog to the park.  She had a great time running with some other dogs.  Then we did a little online microwave shopping.  After that we went to Best Buy to look at our choices.  We found two that would work.  We stopped at In-N-Out on the way back for dinner.

We didn't get back until 9.  After some videos it was showers and bed.