Welcome Home to Bedrock

Wednesday, 11 April 2012
We awoke this morning in the Mather Campground in Grand Canyon National Park, on the south rim of the Grand Canyon. The plan for today is travel in the general direction of Barstow, California. We ate a quick breakfast of eggs, turkey sausage, biscuits and hash browns. (you wonder why we don’t just waste away while we are traveling) After the dishes were cleaned up we headed south on route 64 toward Williams, AZ.

It was blowing really hard here at our home in Bedrock

We had to make a stop at Bedrock to take a few photos of the old home place. Once photos were taken we went on in to Williams. It was time for some fuel in the cave-mobiles so we stopped there and paid $4.59.9 for fuel, the most expensive on the trip thus far.

We hit heavy rain showers on some of the hills

Another heavy squall

We continued west on I-40 to Kingman where we stopped at Taco Bell for a quick lunch then on to Route 98 and 68 to Bullhead City, AZ. The side trip was to Katherine Landing on Lake Mohave for a Lake Mead National Recreation Area stamp for the Passport Books.
Somewhere along the way, about 30 seconds out of the Grand Canyon National Park, we picked up a little head wind. It stayed with us all day and, as if by magic, it continued as a head wind regardless of which direction we were going. At one point Betty and Barney ran through a small whirlwind which caused a short, white knuckle moment. Things were rocking pretty good. Through all this rocking around Fred and Wilma had a gallon of water on the counter of their cave-mobile that stayed in place like it was glued there. 

No, we couldn't go there! Would have knocked the top 3 feet off!

From Bullhead City we went south on route 98 to Needles, CA. In Needles we found what could be the only 8 foot clearance overpass along the Colorado River. After a little maneuvering around the obstruction we found ourselves back on I-40 headed for Barstow, CA.

Freezing wind blowing us

Grandson and his girlfriend in front of his new Charger

In Barstow we had dinner with Fred and Wilma’s grandson and his girlfriend at a Mexican restaurant called Los Domingos. It was a very enjoyable meal and was nice to see the kids again. After dinner we went down I-15 a couple of miles where we wandered into a Flying J and settled in for the night. It has been a pretty long travel day wrestling with the wind so we are glad to be off the road for the night.
Good night from the Bedrock Bunch.