Williams, Arizona

Hi All,
We had a good ride yesterday from Gallup to Williams. It was a little windy but at least not gusty so it wasn't difficult to control the coach. We will stay here for two nights and rest up a bit after three straight travel days. Unfortunately when we arrived here I discovered that the battery in the car was dead from three days of driving with the key on and not driving it between stops. The park sent someone over to give it a jump and we drove around a bit yesterday and will do the same today to get the battery charged. I talked to my friend Steve back home last evening and he will send the wire I used on the old car to charge it while we traveled. I thought the problem was a dead cell in the old car so I never hooked it up on the new car and I didn't bring my jumper unit either since we no longer had the problem. As I think back all of our travels since we bought the new car in March have been single days of driving and then unhooking the car and driving it around so the battery never got too low. Oh well, just another hiccup and the glass is still half full.

We are off to Barstow tomorrow, our longest driving day of the summer at 320 miles but all on the interstate so it shouldn't be too bad. Our new GPS will arrive today, the tracking indicates that it is now out for delivery. It is pretty windy here in Williams and much cooler thank goodness. It was 60 degrees when I walked Alex this morning at 8:00. She hasn't caught onto this time change stuff yet so she still thinks it is 10:00 and it is time to get up. I am sure she will adjust now that we are in the Pacific Time Zone for a month or so. Sorry about the lack of pictures but there hasn't been much exciting stuff to share. There were some pretty vistas as we entered into Arizona yesterday. Much different than the New Mexico dessert.

On the bright side our HD-DVR worked last night, hurray! Don't know about tomorrow after the move but we at least had two additional nights from the old receiver. We discovered yesterday that FedEx will require a signature to receive the new receiver at home. I have alerted Steve and Kay but we don't expect them to just watch for the FedEx truck and forget about everything else. So they will probably get a paper to sign and re-delivery the next day. We have decided to have them send the receiver and the charge wire to us when we are in Gold Beach, OR for five days. Hopefully we won't ned the charge wire before then and we can certainly do without live TV for a few days. More next time so you folks be safe.