Wednesday. It was a noisy night at Walmart in Flagstaff. Sometime during the night they decided to snowplow the whole parking lot and you could hear the plow making its way around the lot for several hours. Nevertheless, we slept pretty good and awoke to fresh snow falling. I was a little worried that the streets would be too slick to move, but a short watch of the local roads showed some brave souls out there navigating the streets. We decided to go for it.
12" of snow was forecast for Flagstaff so we wanted to get out of Dodge as fast as we could. Packed up. Headed out, taking it very easy though the city streets and back to Interstate 40 East.
Once on the freeway, we had to drive 45 mph for a while due to slick conditions but after about 30 miles, we were able to bump it back up to our 56. The semi trucks were crazy. They would roar past at 70 mph shaking our little rig as they zoomed by. I have never seen such overconfidence. One trucker was not too fortunate. We pasted a rig that had flipped over after hitting a patch of ice. They were offloading all his load to another rig and they had a crane there trying to get it back onto its wheels.
It snowed lightly for the first half of the day. We stayed on I-40 all day until we made it through Albuquerque NV. We pulled off the freeway at sundown in a little berg called Edgewood about 27 miles east of the big city. The gps POI file did not show anything favorable so we headed out of town to the south down a narrow road. Finding no place to park in that direction, we turned
around and headed under the freeway to the north. Behold! To our delight there was a new Walmart supercenter that was not listed in the POI files. We pulled in and set up camp on the edge of the lot just at the sun was winking out in the west. Susie did some shopping and I tweaked the trailer. A security guard came over to tell us that we were welcome and said that they don't get many campers because this Walmart is pretty new. He said, "Its mighty quite here after 10 PM." We were glad to hear that.
I set up the Ipod inside running it on a small doc station powered by my 400 watt power inverter. We listened to Dr. J Vernon McGee, II Peter, while Susie worked on her scrapbook project. To conserve the trailer battery power, we use the coleman propane lamp for light some of the time and small LED type lights when the coleman is not needed. This was the first time I tried the inverter and was curious to see if it would drain the battery too much. It worked fine.
We slept good.
12" of snow was forecast for Flagstaff so we wanted to get out of Dodge as fast as we could. Packed up. Headed out, taking it very easy though the city streets and back to Interstate 40 East.
Once on the freeway, we had to drive 45 mph for a while due to slick conditions but after about 30 miles, we were able to bump it back up to our 56. The semi trucks were crazy. They would roar past at 70 mph shaking our little rig as they zoomed by. I have never seen such overconfidence. One trucker was not too fortunate. We pasted a rig that had flipped over after hitting a patch of ice. They were offloading all his load to another rig and they had a crane there trying to get it back onto its wheels.
It snowed lightly for the first half of the day. We stayed on I-40 all day until we made it through Albuquerque NV. We pulled off the freeway at sundown in a little berg called Edgewood about 27 miles east of the big city. The gps POI file did not show anything favorable so we headed out of town to the south down a narrow road. Finding no place to park in that direction, we turned
around and headed under the freeway to the north. Behold! To our delight there was a new Walmart supercenter that was not listed in the POI files. We pulled in and set up camp on the edge of the lot just at the sun was winking out in the west. Susie did some shopping and I tweaked the trailer. A security guard came over to tell us that we were welcome and said that they don't get many campers because this Walmart is pretty new. He said, "Its mighty quite here after 10 PM." We were glad to hear that.I set up the Ipod inside running it on a small doc station powered by my 400 watt power inverter. We listened to Dr. J Vernon McGee, II Peter, while Susie worked on her scrapbook project. To conserve the trailer battery power, we use the coleman propane lamp for light some of the time and small LED type lights when the coleman is not needed. This was the first time I tried the inverter and was curious to see if it would drain the battery too much. It worked fine.
We slept good.
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