journeyacrossamerica: April 16

Welcome to our journey

This is a record of our road trip adventure as we take our first forage into the states with the truck camper and novice camper Daisy Doodle. The plan is to leave tomorrow, the 26th, and spend the first night with good friends inPort Stanley then accross the border at Detroit the next day. From there to the south! Far enough Rob says to remove the long underwear and put on the sandals! After we get a couple of days of relaxation it will be making our leasurely way to California
and up the west coast to Vancouver Island for the middle of May for the anticipated birth of a new granddaughter!

Saturday 16 April 2011

April 16

Can't believe we've been on the road 3 weeks already! It seems at times that we've been travelling for months. It's hard to think that it's still cold and snowy at home. Right now it's about 75 but will keep dropping to about 56 by morning. It was in the 90's here in Phoenix today. This is one of the most different camp grounds we've stayed at. There are so many different varieties of cacti. Some of them are even flowering. I guess this really is desert country!
Yesterday we left Benson to visit Tombstone and surrounding area. The wind had quit blowing and was very pleasant. As you can see by the pictures it is quite the place to visit. Daisy was quite the hit with everyone including the cowboys!
In the morning we had chatted with a lovely couple visiting from Australia. They had camped next to us. They told us about a place south of Tombstone called Bisbee that had a special campground for Air Stream trailers with an authentic '50's diner. This town is down close to the Mexican border and has a huge copper mine. So we decided to check it out and see if there was a campground that we could stay overnight at. After a missed turn or 2 we found the little campground of Air Streams. They have redone several of the models and rent them out as units. Unfortunately the diner was closed and so was the little campground. The town of Bisbee is really quaint. It is literally built into the sides of the hills. We did a little tour through but the streets were very narrow and made parking impossible for us. The houses were painted different colours and were quite colourful. I'm sorry I didn't get any pictures. I would like to visit again and get a better view of it. I did manage to get a couple of pictures of the mine..... it's HUGE and still operating!
So long story short we ended back at the campground in Benson.
Oh yeah.... we were stopped by the Border Patrol... they even had a canine unit! We had to show our passports and the young lady made a fuss over Daisy!
So today we headed to Tuson and then on a scenic route north to Phoenix. We are camped at a KOA 40 miles east of Phoenix called Apache Junction.
Tomorrow we are heading north to Flagstaff. It's supposed to be a little cooler, so today we soaked the sun up and even went for a dip in the pool.