Aliens!

We got to Roswell, NM today, setup and visited the Roswell Alien Museum and the Goddard/Art Museum. The Alien Museum goes into the specifics of the alleged crash and all the hype as well as history, movies, and UFO info in general. It was pretty interesting.

Roswell is a clean and busy city. Nothing that you would expect. The "alien" hype is not that much. There is a small area downtown with Alien t-shirts and "out of this world" gifts.  Thought about Suzie Q while there....there is a Quilting store downtown.

The drive from Silver City to Roswell takes you through the White Sands Missile Range.....make sure you have plenty of fuel! A lot of nothing. Its about a 6 hour drive from Silver City.

Silver City, NM

We arrived in Silver City on Wednesday afternoon. The KOA is nice but it rained a lot while we were there and really limited what we could do. Caught up on laundry, grocery shopping and general stuff.

Tucson

We arrived in Tucson today after another morning at Camping World in Flagstaff (Bellmonte). Friday after discovering we needed a lower unit for the A/C, Camping World picked one up at a different location and told us they would install it Saturday AM.  We spent the night in Flagstaff again and pushed our future reservations around some. Arriving first thing this morning we learned the part was the correct part but they had no one that could wire it. As it turns out the wireless unit we have is now obsolete and replaced with a hard wire wall thermostat. So now we have an appointment with Camping World in Tucson at 10 Monday.  At 100 degree's today and tomorrow we did not spend much time in the RV.

Tomorrow Chewie will stay at my mom and dad's while we go to breakfast and the Tucson zoo.

This has been the trip so far......hopefully after Monday it will be less eventful.

Kodachrome State Park

This place is well worth the trip too. You could hike for days here! With all the rain southern Utah got in the last few days they closed the park because the only bridge in was damaged. It re-opened Tuesday afternoon when we arrived. They had evacuated everyone there. It was like have the park to yourself for a while.

Grand Staircase-Escanlante National Monument / Escanlante Petrified Forest State Park

This was a beautiful place. There is a great campground there. May consider it next time. More pictures to come after I get them off Kathy's phone.

Petrified tree's

Bryce Canyon to Flagstaff

A few photo's of the trip from Bryce Canyon to Flagstaff. About 3/4 of the way there we had two tires blow out. Funny thing was we had just stopped for about 30 minutes just before this happened so not sure what caused it. Good thing we have Goodsam Roadside. One phone call and service will be here in about an hour.

Our campsite at the KOA in Cannonville, UT. The middle of no where. A great place to escape if you don't need groceries, cell service or reliable internet :)

30 minutes before the blow out. 

 And the blow out!!

Bryce Canyon, UT

We arrived in Cannonville, UT (pop 63) in the rain and hail storm. It rained all day yesterday and last night. We are staying at the KOA which is small but nice. Today the weather was a mixed of wind and rain. Fortunately it didn't rain while we were hiking at Bryce Canyon.

I thought the entrance fee was a bit steep for a National Park ($25 a day) but it was worth the trip. The shuttle is definitely the way to go. The parking at the view points are limited. There are some really nice hiking trails and next year we want to hike the bottom of the canyon as opposed to the rim. It was beautiful but a little chilly, windy and 49 degrees. The top of the rim is at 8,800 feet.

Tomorrow afternoon we are going to Escalante Grand Staircase and the Petrified Forest.

Cannonville is in the valley 

Next year we plan to hike to the bottom