Grand Canyon/Williams, Sedona and Jerome, AZ

Traveling
Remember how I said snow was being predicted in the high country in AZ?  Well did we get the snow but I’ll come back to that later. We moved from Lake Havasu City to the town of Williams, 67 miles south of the Grand Canyon.  This northern Arizona town sits at 7,000 ft elevation and Route 66 runs through its main street.  We found a nice RV park, Grand Canyon Railway RV Park that was a few blocks off main street and stayed put for one week.    The Grand Canyon Railway runs out of Williams.  This is a train that runs every day of the year except Christmas from Williams to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.  We decided this was the way we were going to make our…
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A Drive Back to Western Arizona

Traveling
We heard about this Ghost Town close to the CA/ Arizona border and decided to take the 240 mile trip back to Western Arizona to see it.  On the way we stayed two nights in the “Cowboy” town of Wickenburg.  Usually we do a little research before we start off to find our next possibly campsite but we had heard that the BLM land (Bureau of Land Management) in the desert was nice so we decided to check that out in Wickenburg.  On our way into town we stopped at an antique store and asked where the BLM land was.  After getting directions from a local and with the 5th wheel in tow off we went to find our next campsite.  Just a few miles out of Wickenburg we started…
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Arizona Desert

On Our Minds, Traveling
Ok, I’ll have to take back some of my concerns about the desert.  There is beauty in some of the desert we have seen.  But some of it has been dusty and barren and doesn’t have a lot to offer (like trees). We started are Arizona journey in Quartsite, a supposedly must stay place for any RVer.  Quartsite is a town in the middle of the desert with a population of about 4,000 people.  But in January of every year thousands and thousands of RVers come to Quartsite for a couple of weeks of flea markets, RV sales and just about anything else RVers would be interested in.  They can set up camp in the desert for a few dollars a night with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).  We…
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A Pitfall of RV Full-Timing

Full-Time RVing
People ask us all the time what we don’t like about RV full-timing.  I’ve voiced my dislike for laundromats.  I’d now have to add finding a dog groomer to my dislikes.  We never realized how wonderful it was to take our dogs to the same groomer for the past 14 years and she just knew how we liked the dogs groomed.  We have tried Petsmart and a private groomer in Oregon and they were so-so.  But we found this woman in Apache Junction who took the prize.  She was recommended by the KOA where we stayed.    We took in Ivy, a Bichon, and picked up Ivy, a Poodle.  When I dropped Ivy off the woman asked how I wanted her groomed.  I went over everything but she had other ideas. …
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