Laundry and Groceries Day

Thursday 27 Mar 14
Burrrrrr.... 41 degrees at 7am!  It was cold but only to Greg.  I stayed nice and toasty warm snuggled beneath the King-Size Down Comforter until after 8.  (Greg got up at 7).  During the night the winds gusted quite a bit so it kept waking me up.  Not much sleep.  We packed up and headed down the mountain toward Safford (still in AZ) at 10:15.  Safford is about 18 miles from where we were camping.  Campsite at 6700 feet, Safford at 2900 feet..... lots of curvy roads.  Got a campsite at Roper Lake State Park again (this is the same place we stayed on Sunday night AND we got the same campsite as before).  Before we parked the camper we drove into Safford, found a Safeway, bought groceries, had a prescription transferred from Anchorage, then went to a laundromat to do a couple loads of clothes!  What a productive day!!!!  We got to the campground around 2:30.  Sat outside and relaxed in the warm weather (75 degrees).  Then the wind started blowing.....we can't seem to get away from it!  I took a wonderful hot shower and we drove back into town to get dinner.  Greg said it was our anniversary dinner since we didn't go out to eat last week on our actual anniversary (he is SO sweet).  We ate at Casa Manana's.  We both had margaritas; I had some kind of spicy meat enchiladas x3 with green salsa and Greg had a huge chimichanga with rice and beans.  It was ok food, nothing like we thought it would be.  But we cleaned out plates!  It's not every night we go out to dinner so I made sure I ate everything on my plate.

Tomorrow we are headed toward Alpine AZ in the Apache National forest.  Very high elevations and all the campgrounds we have found in the area a closed until 1May.  Outside of Alpine there is a privately owned RV park where we have gotten reservations for tomorrow night.  The low temp for tomorrow night is 23... the RV park has electricity so we'll be running the electric heater!  We eventually plan to make it to the Petrified Forest and the Painted Desert near the town of Holbrook AZ sometime over the weekend.  Then we'll start making our way West.  Maybe going to another area of the Grand Canyon.  I'm hoping my luck with the internet holds up and I can keep up with the blog.

Havin' Fun
D & G