Moving Camping Trip - Day 6

We left Banning and took Hwy 10 East. Past the hundreds of windmills that looked like an army of them. The wind was at our backs and travel was far easier. The sun was shining and the temp was around 70 to 77 degrees. The Mojave desert wasn't as pretty as it was around Yucca Valley at first, but as we traveled further east in California, the variation of plants were greater. I seen a short cactus that was in bloom with fuchsia pink blossoms, but that was only over one of the small passes. I was very disappointed that I didn't get a picture of it.

We were very excited to reach the boarder. We had lunch just off the road, but isolated a bit. We were next to some red ant hills. Pat heard motor cycles and then lunch was over and we hit the road. We went over the river and we were in Arizona. All of a sudden we were seeing large cactus standing with their arms straight up. Pat gave the kids a goal to look for the ones that look like people. The hills were also very beautiful. Liz was taking lots of pictures.

We had a tire blow out on the trailer about 30 minutes before Phoenix. We felt very lucky to have had it happen at that point, because we hit Phoenix at rush hour. When we got the spare on, we were back on the road again and through the heart of Phoenix. Phoenix is a beautiful city and very clean. We were very blessed having GPS, because the Hwy kept splitting. If we didn't have it, I know we would have been lost about 5 times taking the wrong split. By the time we arrived in Mesa, it was dark. We spent the whole day looking forward to getting into a hot tub, but we arrived at the KOA 30 minutes after the Pool closed.

We traveled a total of 310 miles.