Tuesday February 4, 2014

As promised by the weatherman, we received about 2' of snow overnight. We closed everything up and got ready to go, however we debated as the roads did not look good. We decided to give it a try as I looked at the weather radar and it looked like we would run out of the snow not far from Amarillo.

We left Amarillo about 8:30 and headed down Route 27 toward Route 60. When we got on Route 27 the road was packed with ice in the left lane. The right lane was better as there had not been so much traffic on it so we tried to drive in the right as much as possible. There were many accidents along the way so we had to keep slowing down from the creeping speed we were already going. I'm thinking Texas does not know what salt is. We saw a few snow plows but did not appear they were spreading salt.

About an hour out of Amarillo the roads cleared a lot and looked as though they had not received quite the snow that Amarillo received. We traveled on for a distance and ran out of snow totally. We drove until about 3:30 when we reached Las Cruces, NM. We always make this our last stop before the final trip to Yuma as the weather is normally warm enough to de-winterize the motor home.

We called the KOA in Las Cruces, which is where we stay when here, and reserved a site for tonight. Our car and motor home are so terribly dirty so I asked the KOA if they had the name of a company that would power wash both. They gave us a phone number so I called and made an appointment for tomorrow morning at 9:00am. After talking about it, we decided to stay both tonight and tomorrow night just to have a chance to relax a little. It is 513 miles from here to Yuma so will be a full day of driving when we leave here to reach Yuma.

We got to the KOA and found our spot. Hooked up everything and I took a while to clean some. The motor home is always so dirty from setting so just makes me feel better to at least take a top layer off.

When we got here I looked at the car and could not believe it was mine. It is filthy as you can see in the attached picture. I don't think I've ever seen it so bad. I can't wait to get it washed!



We raided the freezer and cupboards for dinner. We really don't have a lot of food yet so we ended up with soup and pizza rolls--WOW you have to be hungry to eat this crap! Hopefully tomorrow we will have time to get a few more supplies. I had several things in the freezer at home prepared to bring for cooking along the way but we forgot to grab them on the way out. Oh well we both just keep getting bigger and bigger so a little less food should be good, however tonight's meal was not healthy or low cal!