Jason asked us to be at his shop at 12:30, we got there at 12:00 I told him I don’t want him waiting for us. NAPA is supposed to make their Saturday parts delivery at 1:00. They decided it would work best for them if they made the 1:00 p.m. delivery at 3:00 today. Jason installed the ignition switch and we were out of RV Country by 3:45.
We drove of Winslow, AZ and decided to stay at Homolivi State Park (site 30) it would be quieter than staying at the local I-40 rest stop.
Did a Walmart stop this evening.
Today’s drive
No campsite picture
My guess was the winds were mostly in the 15 to 25 mph out of the west the whole drive, made for a long 200 miles. We got to the state part at 10:15 and the park ranger said if we wanted to see any of the park we should get at it because it is really going to blow this afternoon. We had more exciting things planned for the afternoon, laundry.
These were large villages with over 1200 rooms at one of the 4 sites.
This is a drawing of what the village might have looked like:
Some of the rooms where rather large.
This is where they think this kiva was and some of it rebuilt.
And of course there are always lizards:
I also got him out on the side walk, Look at the length of his rear toes.
There is a lot of pottery around these sites and it is illegal to remove anything from the sites, so people place the things they find on flat rocks.
Here is our drive around Winslow, we were also out looking for a laundromat.
I had planned a stop in Flagstaff to do our grocery shopping at a SuperWalmart however that did not work out so well. I have read a lot of blogs about how unfriendly Flagstaff is to RV’ers and they again proved it to be true on all accounts. It was difficult to find the store because of no signage. We saw a large brown building with a large parking lot and figured it to be the Walmart. When got right to the turn lane we could see the four foot high Walmart sign at the parking lot entrance. However, I could not see a good path into and out of the parking lot. One of the challenges of pulling a car is you can not back up. If I get myself into a place where I can not make a turn I’d have to stop unhook the car and then backup. I actually have had to do this once. We were on Hwy 50 (out in the middle of nowhere) half way across Nevada when we stopped for lunch at a pony express historical site. The parking lot was empty and I thought I could make a large circle and make it out the only entrance point. I was wrong, unhooked the car, backed up three feet and made the turn J. Back to Flagstaff Walmart, the parking lot was so broken up the curbs and light posts I was not sure I could get in and out with all the tight turns and other vehicles in the lot. After driving around the area looking for a place to park we decided to move on down the road.
