Day 01. Yuma, Arizona to Kanarraville, Utah. 452 miles.
We finally got on the road at 0745h and pointed the big Ford F350 SuperDuty Turbo-diesel truck North, with our little travel RV, “Hitch” attached to the hitch in the truck bed, following obediently behind.
We would head up the 95 from Yuma, through Quartzsite, Arizona (probably the most famous and popular dry-camping (boondocking) area in the entire world, with hundreds of thousands of rigs descending on Quartzsite for the big RV Show there the 3rd week of January, and where nearly all of them stay in the free BLM (Bureau of Land Management) desert areas, or the almost-free LTVAs (Long-Term Visitor Areas) which have a few basic facilities like central water, dump stations and trash bins for a modest fee, surrounding Quartzsite.
After passing through Quartzsite, we’d continue North through Parker, a quaint little place in Arizona, before driving through Needles in California (which was a scorching 120F / 49C) and on to Las Vegas, Nevada, before hopping onto the I-15 and heading North-East back into Arizona and past the Grand Canyon, before entering Utah, where we stayed at a tiny, cramped, rather scruffy little campground called Red Ledge RV Park, in Kanarraville, Utah. This campground was small, dusty and had incredibly tight sites, such that we could not even put out our awning, and barely big enough for our room slides without touching the neighbor’s slides!
At least the manageress was friendly and the showers and toilets were clean, with pin code access. Not recommended as a destination CG, but OK for an overnight pass-though spot, if you can fit the tight spaces. Once of the many advantages of Hitch is that she is tiny (9 metres / 28 feet long), so we had no issue fitting in.
Despite the less than pretty CG, we had a good sleep that night in Hitch!
More tomorrow….