Day 9

Packed up early and took the RV to be serviced at 9:00 am.  Ellen and the girls stayed behind with the car at the RV park and took advantage of the free breakfast and log fire to read awhile as I suffered in the waiting room at the Ford dealership. 

She came to get me around 10:30.  "Thanks a lot"!

RV still was a couple of hours from being ready so we took a drive back up into the mountains towards Alomogorgo to check out a back country campground.  Intended to get there in time to take a hike with the dogs but took too much time to get there.  BEAUTIFUL drive but had to turn back to get the RV by the time we reached our destination.  No time to hike.  Shit!

Got the RV back and hooked up the car and got back on the road by 1:00 pm.  Decided to just go all the 300 miles to Catalina State Park north of Tucson and bypass a possible stop in between.  Mistake!  Got to Catalina about 5:45 and "no room at the inn".  Had to back track about one hour into the center of Tucson to an RV park RIGHT NEXT TO I-10 AND A RAILROAD TRACK.  Catalina does not take reservations but we did not even think to at least call ahead to see if they had space.  Oh Well!

But we are settled in for the night and the space has water and electricity. Perfect!  Tomorrow we will try to be first in line for Catalina.  If we strike out, we will just continue north to Phoenix.

As usual, too late to mess with posting pictures.  Not much to post anyway as we are camped next to the highway, but might have a couple of the mountains from this mornings drive tomorrow.\

Good night!