Yep Judy guessed it......

I'm  sitting here laughing my tail off.... Judy Bell has my number....  "Considering how fast I make the trip North... I had better sit tight for a while....But then she thought her advice wasn't worth much...."

Well as usual, her advice is worth a lot, but that wouldn't mean I would follow it now does it....?  Man when I get the itch to get along with it............Zoooom I'm all over it...  And so it was....

Tuesday I drove over to storage with the Jeep and the tow bar and had the Jeep on the back of the motorhome in about 15 minutes.... I had never pulled the Jeep before but its tow bar connections are the same and putting it in Neutral is done with the transfer case lever and you put the transmission in Park...  There is no steering wheel lock either so the key may as well be in your pants pocket...  So much easier...

But remember, I have a motorcycle and trailer to pull to Kansas,  so the poor Jeep had to be left behind..  In Kansas, you have to have a CDL to double tow....  So I only pulled the Jeep for the 5 miles back to the house..

Once the motorhome was home, then I started in getting things packed up and out to the coach... It took me two days to get thru it all...  I'm without my helper, or my leader is closer to the truth...  So not only does it take twice as long, I don't do about half of it right either....

Wednesday afternoon I took off thinking I had it all in hand, only to realize that I hadn't set the AC to 90, or turned off the water heater....  So back home again... Thankfully I was only about three miles away...  Had to fight with the security a second time to get it all set and by now it was almost 5 PM....

But the house was clean and the beds were made without sheets, so what the heck lets go, again....  I drove up to Payson, and then over the rim at 7800 feet...  I was in shorts and a thin t shirt and it was 42 outside....

It was dark and a little after 8 PM when I was checking into the KOA at Holbrook, and the wind was blowing like crazy....  But I was busy putting stuff away once I had the rig opened up with its slides out....  I had changed my watch to daylight saving time, so it was late at night by then....

Now that means that I should have slept in an hour, but no, my eyes were wide open at 7 AM New Mexico time....   I was on the road by 10 and drove all the way across New Mexico by 5:30..  I did stop for about an hour at our favorite parking area next to the Route 66 Casino in Albuquerque...  Lots of folks use that one for boondocking....

So tonight I am in Tucumcari, Nm...  Again at the KOA....  Haven't had any experience with the other park here, but this one isn't anything special.... Just gravel parking with hookups...  For $42....   And that was with the discount...  KOA is really pricey..... but they are convenient...

I think it is like McDonalds, not the best in the world, but uniform....  Not many surprises...  Reliably gets the job done......

I'm really not in any rush to get to Kansas, but my lawyer is bugging me to come back for Loyce's estate, and then  there is that pesky tax return.....   So maybe I'm just nervous to get back.....

Or then again, maybe its the long haul trucker in me that thinks a normal day has to be 500 miles....  Like Judy suggests, I usually don't go anywhere moseying along..... LOL

Retired Rod