Our campsite at Star Valley Ranch RV Resort.  Very nice park.  Although they aren't fully open yet, they welcomed us in.  All the utilities are working with the exception of the park WiFi.  Verizon works to a degree which is just something we'll have to get used to.  It'll be the same in the park all summer.   We drove over to the lodge a couple of days ago, and everything looks good.  We're excited to be here and looking forward to moving into the park on May 15.

Jordanelle Lake Campground near Heber City, UT.  Pretty spot.

 Our business in Sin City concluded, we are both happy to be on our way north.  The last couple of days in Las Vegas were pretty miserable.  The temperature soared one day to 101 and the next day the wind got up to around 30 knots.  It was very much like a blast furnace.

Thankfully we are a little farther north now visiting some old friends in St. George, UT.  We've been through St. George several times in the past but never had a reason to stop and take a look around.  It really is a pretty little town with a lot to offer in the way of hiking, climbing and other outdoor activities.  We're glad we stopped.  Lee and Lea are gracious hosts and gave us a very nice tour of their town.  We hope to return in the future.

Livi seems pretty contented.  Tomorrow we leave for points north.  We plan to stop at a nice state park in Heber City, UT for the night, then on to Star Valley, WY the following day where we will drag our feet for a week or so before heading over the mountain through the pass between Alpine and Hoback Junction and on into the park.

Hasta..

We made it into Sin City yesterday and met up with our old friends, Pete and Pat.  We're all staying at Arizona Charlie's Casino and RV Park.  Not a bad park for a big city facility.  The price is right, the casino buffet... not so much.  The spaces are roomy and level and all the utilities work reasonably well.  The WiFi isn't the best, but I have yet to find an RV Park with really good service.  It's almost always spotty and overburdened.  We plan to stay here for about a week while Cathy takes care of family business, and then we'll start to meander our way north toward Wyoming.  Presently the weather up there is a little on the inhospitable side, so we'll need to drag our feet on the way up.  We're not expected to be there until May 15.  Hopefully the snow will have melted by then.

An uneventful day on our nation's highways and byways today.  The finest kind!  We left Santa Rosa Lake Park at around 0700, and after gassing up we pointed the bow to the west.  400 miles later we are in Meteor Crater RV Park just west of Winslow, AZ.  Nice little park in which to overnight.  Nothing special, but clean and well run.  This is our fourth stay here.  We visited the crater site on our first visit.  Not much has changed in a million years.  It's still an enormous hole in the ground.  Glad I wasn't around when that baby hit!

Vegas tomorrow and the end of the first leg of our trip.

Wow!  Verizon never ceases to amaze me.  We are literally out here in the middle of nowhere at Santa Rosa Lake State Park, just north of Santa Rosa, NM, and I still have a reasonably usable data signal.  I'm impressed.  Granted, I have to lean my phone up against the rear window of the Airstream, but then again, that's often the case.  Radio signals just don't like passing through an aluminum skin all that much.

 As you can imagine, Santa Rosa Lake is rather remote.  The park is very nice though and supposedly very popular with locals on the weekend.  I'm not sure why, because from what we observed on our way in, there isn't a whole lot left of the lake.  Crossing the dam, you have to crane your neck and look way down there to see the paltry little puddle of brown water that is supposed to be the big recreational draw around these here parts.  I dunno.  Anyhoo, we stayed here on our way east a couple of years ago and liked the peace and quite.  So we're back.

It was a tough day on the road today and we are both quite tired.  As soon as I finish this log entry, I'm going  to pull up an easy chair in the shade and kick back for a bit.  The reason for the tough day under way was the nearly 40 mph head wind we experienced for almost the entire 400 miles we traveled today.  It got particularly bad once we reached I-40 at Amarillo.  At that point the wind which had been a few points off the port bow for most of the morning, decided to clock around to due west and freshen dramatically.  In other words right, square on the nose.  It was a physical force.  My right leg is actually tired from pushing down on the gas pedal all day.  Our poor truck ran in forth and occasionally third gear for nearly four hours.  It was brutal.  Tomorrow's forecast is for a slightly lighter breeze out of the north-east.  I look forward to it.  We plan to stop somewhere around Winslow, AZ tomorrow afternoon.  "Standin' on the corner in Winslow,  Arizona.  Such a fine sight to see..." - Eagles

A good day on the road today.  No problems, no malfunctions.  Once we cleared Louisiana, the roads improved dramatically.  We got off I-10 east of Dallas and took a series of US highways bypassing Dallas to the north and east.  Experienced some slowdowns while passing through a couple of bedroom communities north of the city, but after that it was clear sailing.  Planning to make it into New Mexico tomorrow.