Tripometer – 11912 mi
Gas Gauge – 908.875 gal
Location – Days Inn, Camp Verde, AZ
Lodging – $100
Cans of OFF – 4
Paul contacted the Rancho Sedona RV Park a half an hour before the hotel checkout time this morning. Sadly, there have been no cancellations for the weekend and therefore we have no destination for tonight. We need a plan.
Kelly got in a great day of work yesterday, owing in large part to a quiet hotel room with a solid internet connection. The hotel room is easy and it isn’t hard to appreciate the shower 10 feet away with scads of fresh clean towels that we don’t have to take care of. We decided fairly quickly that it would be nice to let Kelly continue her furious pace and catch up on some longer term projects at work that she’s been procrastinating. Given our frantic pace for the past few weeks, Paul wanted to get caught up on some personal finance, photo, blog, and trip planning work as well. We truly settled into the hotel room during the afternoon, barely saying anything to one another as we sunk into padded chairs, real mattresses and cable TV. Ranger slept.
We didn’t bother to disconnect the truck from the trailer for the past two days, opting for restaurants within walking distance of the hotel (not the wisest or tastiest decision on our part). We had every intention of walking the 0.5mi to a local brewery down a little side street from our hotel tonight. As soon as we had turned the corner out of the hotel parking lot and walked all but about 100 feet, we decided that walking home after a few beers on this street would likely not turn out well. Every home on the street was abandoned and more than a few of them has soft glows coming from candles or small lamps being used by the homeless people on the inside. We ended up going to the WORST Mexican restaurant that we’ve been to since Washington State right next to the hotel. Honestly, this taco joint was embarrassing for Arizona.
We will try again for the Rancho Sedona RV Park in the morning.