Sedona to Palm Springs

Cottonwood Arizona to Palm Desert California (350+/-)

Sunday September 30 2018

Out neighbors in the campground, obviously new to camping, started their vehicle up at 4:30 am and let it run as they noisily prepared to leave. They departed at 5:30 and by then we were wide awake so we decided to leave too.

Coming home from Prescott yesterday we came down a miles long steep decline. Knowing we would be going up that mountain this morning we decided to give the motorhome a break. Millie drove the truck and I the motorhome, we stopped at the first rest stop we came too beyond the mountain, hooked up the truck to be towed and ate breakfast. 

Millie at the rest stop on I-17

I decided to follow Amy the GPS this morning. She took us past the first loop around Phoenix, then past the second loop and continued straight down into town until we intersected I-10. It is Sunday, traffic is light, I didn’t make a fuss about it, but I’m watching her!

It was an easy run west on I-10, There were some mountains, most of them off in the distance. Most of the drive was in a desert. As we were leaving the Phoenix area there were signs along the road advertising tracks of land for sale, the surrounding desert looked about as dry and useless as could be. It reminded me of the  land salesmen in the old movie, GlennGary GlennRoss. For a hundred miles or more we saw nothing but desert. As we neared Palm Springs we descended into a valley and saw civilization for the first time since leaving Phoenix.

Arizona desert.

Our campground for the week is another Thousand Trails facility. This one was a disappointment; it could be a very nice place if they fixed up the sites. The worst thing is the sand spurs, they are everywhere. It is impossible to walk a dog here.