Snow? Bah, humbug!

We left Las Vegas yesterday, but had to take a more southerly route than the one we had planned. Flagstaff had, and was continuing to have snow, like 15 inches. So there went the Grand Canyon. Holbrook was due to get 3-5 inches, but up to 10 inches, so there went the Painted Desert and Route 66. Amarillo was going to have that white stuff too, so for sure that killed that route. Snow and cold is what we wanted to get away from on this trip.So we drove south to a little KOA on our new route. We drove thru mountains 5000 feet high

and thru dessert at 4200 feet. We drove thru the Joshua Forest Parkway of Arizona, where we saw more Joshua Trees than we saw at Joshua National Park in California. We saw Nancy's favorite cactus, the saguarro, all over the desert. Just stunning! 

We got to the campground after dark , at 6 pm, so the office was closed. This KOA was in the desert, where we were traveling.The last 1/4 mile to the campground was so full of potholes, we could have scrambled eggs. At the campground no lights were on to see our way. A map to our site was left outside the office but it was so dark we missed the turn to our site. It took us an hour to find it and get backed in and it was not a large campground. Never again!

This morning we left and drove 289 miles thru New Mexico to our next location where we will spend the next week. It has a heated pool and hot tub. With the weather dropping into the low 30s and upper 20s each night since we left in December, we are looking forward to using that hot tub every day this week.