Life on the Road

Well, yesterday we were in Arizona, no, wait … we were in New Mexico, ummm, no, I think it was Texas, or maybe Oklahoma. Now I remember, we were in Arkansas last night. And Oklahoma the night before that, and Texas the night before that, and New Mexico the night before that, and yes, Arizona the night before that. Tonight we are sleeping in misery … Missouri.

Let me explain … No, that would take too long. Let me sum up our travels.

We left Arizona on Monday. We were told to get out of town by high noon. (The campground checkout time was noon.) We drove east to Flagstaff to run some errands and ate at Cracker Barrel (second best Cracker Barrel we have eaten at in the U.S.) Onward to a nondescript place called Restarea. (A Rest Area just west of Winslow, AZ.) Nobody slept much because of the truck noise. We decided not to park in Restarea any more.

Day two’s travel took us to the east side of Albuquerque. We stopped at a WalMart there and enjoyed an evening meal at Boston Market and a better night’s sleep.

The third day we hauled ourselves to Amarillo, TX. We found free parking for overnighters at the Big Texan steak house. Great food … not so great parking. The lot fills up with truckers, soooo …

OK, on day four we pushed on through Oklahoma City to Shawnee, OK. We pulled off to eat at Cracker Barrel (average food, the worst are in Kingman, AZ and Tupelo, MS) and settle into our friendly neighborhood WalMart. Not too bad of a night.

Then, rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, on into Arkansas and we turned north. We found a little RV park northeast of Springdale where we finally had hookups and restrooms with showers.

Tonight, and I hope the next couple nights, we are hooked up in front of my mother’s place. We can spend a little time cleaning up us and the RV.

So, fulltiming in the RV is a challenge, but we are slowly adjusting. You just need to adjust your focus to go a bit farther ahead in your schedule. If you are fulltiming, your house is right behind you. We are hoping that any traveling can be done in short day lunges. You can always stop and stay a couple days if you like the area. We still push ourselves a bit when we are driving and trying to get to our final destination at a scheduled hour. We just need to relax and let the road take us.

If God is your co-pilot, … switch seats!