April 10th to 11th

April 10th - Tues - to Holbrook
We bypassed Flagstaff again and took I40 east for a ways to a tiny blip on the map called Sun Valley which is just past Holbrook, AZ. PA park, pretty primitive. The wind was really blowing. We drove through the Petrified Forest National Park which is in the Painted Desert. We would have appreciated the scenery more if we hadn’t been afraid of being blown off the edge the few times that we did get out. I got sandblasted once when I stepped out to get pictures. Back to the rig to make use of the satellite dish as the only place we wanted to be was out of the wind.

April 11th - Wed - to Cortez, CO
The wind wasn’t blowing too hard when we left this morning but a weather forecast said it would pick up again. No use staying another day as we had sort of planned to do. We drove to Gallup, NM and then headed north before going back west into Arizona for a few miles and then north into CO to arrive at the Four Corners monument. As the name says, it sits on the intersection of New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and Utah. The pictures that I took there are not good - I think some sand got into the lens cover and it did not open all the way. From there we headed to Cortez, CO. We stopped at a huge visitor center and had our choice of a lot of brochures about the area. is cool (46) and breezy - just right for a visit to WalMart where I found the shorts that I have been looking for and a few groceries.