Welcome to Palo Duro, the land of canyons, cattle, cardinals, turkeys, and roadrunners. Oh yes, and some coyotes. Palo Duro is located south of Amarillo near Canyon. An interesting side trip in the area is Cadillac Ranch just to the west of Amarillo. This is an art sculpture of 10
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Santa Rosa Lake State Park – Santa Rosa, New Mexico
We headed east on I-40 through Albuquerque to the eastern part of New Mexico. Along the way we stopped at Camping World in Albuquerque for a few parts and then headed east and exited I-40 to drive the New Mexico Musical Road near Tijeras. Not quite the loud music
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Along I-40 sits the village of Acoma which is home to the Acoma Pueblo people. There is a casino located there along with a lovely, simple RV park which provides easy access for an overnighter, utilizing the casino, and/or visiting the Acoma Pueblo (covered in next post). RV
Continue readingHomolovi Ruins State Park – Winslow, Arizona
Off we departed via Flagstaff to I-40 and headed east towards Homolovi State Park in Winslow, Arizona. The state park has one campground in a figure 8 configuration consisting of back-ins and pull along sites. Campground: Homolovi State Park Location: Winslow, Arizona off I-40 (north side) Site: 24
Continue readingLost Dutchman State Park – Apache Junction, Arizona
It’s time for our shakedown trip! Yep, we bought a new motorhome so we needed to take a trip and test it out. Our goal was to first go somewhere with hookups so we could test all the appliances and equipment which run off power and also check out
Continue readingRancho Sedona RV Park – Sedona, Arizona
Disclaimer: We did not stay at this RV Park. We have stayed many times in the Sedona area previously and had always assumed this RV park may be difficult for a big rig to get in and out of so on this trip we decided to do a drive thru
Continue readingBlake Ranch RV Resort – Kingman, Arizona
We drove south from Valley of Fire State Park through Lake Mead National Recreation Area (NRA) to Kingman, Arizona. We like to drive through the Lake Mead NRA instead of through Las Vegas as it makes for a beautiful, quiet, peaceful drive. We love it there. We continued east
Continue readingValley of Fire State Park – Overton, Nevada
We love driving through Nevada. It is one of our favorite areas with long deserted roads and beautiful scenery. What more could you ask for? We eventually head into Valley of Fire State Park, an area we have visited many, many times and is one of our favorites. We
Continue readingKershaw-Ryan State Park – Caliente, Nevada
Our goal, as we headed to southern Nevada, was to find a campground with electric so we could run our A/C. Yes, we are spoiled. It was still really hot out in the south as it was early September. We had our eyes set on Cathedral Gorge State Park campground,
Continue readingWendover KOA – West Wendover, Nevada
We headed south through Idaho and on to northern Utah past the northern most part of the Great Salt Lake and on to Nevada to Wendover. The drive was a lovely drive with no other vehicles to be seen. We stopped on the border of Utah and Nevada for lunch
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