[p]Me and my dog Sage did a 1200 mile trip to Moab and back. drove up 77 thru Show Low, Az and stopped over in Holbrook, Az for 2 nights so I could see the Petrified Forest. Also this gave me a couple of nights to get ready to dry camp in Utah. The campsite I stayed at in Utah was the State Park Dead Horse Point, they have 21 Beautiful campsites, each site has electric, but no water or sewer hookup. They do have a dump site as you are leaving. I reserved my site online about a month before I went. I got site 17 which is one of the best there. They have bathrooms without showers but with running water. And also have a big sink outside for washing dishes. I think this is one of the best places to stay in that area because you are right in between Canyon Lands National Park and the Arches National park. Besides they allow dogs on the trails and they don't at Canyon Lands or Arches.[/p][p]
[/p][p]The Trailer was fantastic pulled great, was very comfortable for me and my Dog. Since I had electric I did use a small electric heater to keep the cold out as it dropped into the high 30's all 4 night's I was there. Frig also worked great I switched to DC when I was on the road. I had a couple of Ice packs in the freezer and they never even started to thaw out when I was driving. I am going to invest in a better shower curtain the sliding type mentioned in other threads and also want to install the See Level Tank Gauges. One great thing about the 14DBS model is that it has some really nice size tanks Grey Water is 32 gal, Black Water is 28 gal and Fresh Water is 38 gal. I don't think I even came close to running out of water, but would be nice to have some gauges.[/p][p]
[/p][p]Next trip will be real long leaving Arizona to go back to Florida via Sonoma, Grand Canyon, Zion, Sequoia National Forest, Crater Lake, Montana, Wyoming the Dakotas, Upper Peninsula Michigan down to Holland Mi. to visit relatives some I haven't seen in 40 years, then back to Florida. [/p][p]
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Excellent trip report! Like how you reported on campgrounds, route, and trailer systems.
Looking forward to the Grand Canyon trip report. We always like to see trip photos too, if possible.
Thanks for posting the report!
Nice report. Last September we took our 21BHS from Florida to the Grand Canyon (Trailer Village) and then to Moab. We stayed at the Spanish Trail campground. It was very nice. We had been to the Grand Canyon and Arches before, but not Canyonlands. Now I want to go back.
[a href="http://livinlite.proboards.com/thread/543/florida-grand-canyon-on-moab"]Grand Canyon/Moab Trip Report[/a]
That's a scenic route you took to Showlow and a couple of state parks along the way. Mogollon Rim campgrounds are starting to open.
[p]I just made a similar run, not in an RV, but in a u-haul. Going from Phoenix to Portlandia. Found out while eating dinner at the Sizzler (seriously ? Sizzler ? I thought they were not only out of business but all the principals were serving time) in Flagstaff (which is actually the finest dining available in Flagstaff) that I was about to drive through a winter storm that the weather channel named "Quantum" (I guess because it sounds scary and of course "winter storm maximum terminator paper cut" was too long for the headline crawl at the bottom of the screen).[/p][p]
[/p][p]So instead of driving during the day around the south and north rims of the grand canyon, and through Bryce Canyon, and Vermillion Cliffs, and Zion, and no less than 3 other national forest/parks/monuments, we high-tailed it out of there in an ill-advised attempt to drive straight through and at least get to the other side of the storm before it hit. Didn't work. We went through at night. In whiteout blizzard conditions. Didn't see a thing. Speed dropped to 25 mph and we almost died several times. [/p][p]
[/p][p]Some day I'll make that run at my leisure and enjoy it.[/p][p]
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[quote timestamp="1427943930" source="/post/8769/thread" author="@pinstriper"][p]I just made a similar run, not in an RV, but in a u-haul. Going from Phoenix to Portlandia. Found out while eating dinner at the Sizzler (seriously ? Sizzler ? I thought they were not only out of business but all the principals were serving time) in Flagstaff (which is actually the finest dining available in Flagstaff) that I was about to drive through a winter storm that the weather channel named "Quantum" (I guess because it sounds scary and of course "winter storm maximum terminator paper cut" was too long for the headline crawl at the bottom of the screen).[/p][p]
[/p][p]So instead of driving during the day around the south and north rims of the grand canyon, and through Bryce Canyon, and Vermillion Cliffs, and Zion, and no less than 3 other national forest/parks/monuments, we high-tailed it out of there in an ill-advised attempt to drive straight through and at least get to the other side of the storm before it hit. Didn't work. We went through at night. In whiteout blizzard conditions. Didn't see a thing. Speed dropped to 25 mph and we almost died several times. [/p][p]
[/p][p]Some day I'll make that run at my leisure and enjoy it.[/p][p]
[/p][p][/p][/quote][p]Oh, wow, Pinstriper, so glad the you made it back to make this post. What would we of this forum do without YOU?! [/p][p]
[/p][p]It's hard to believe that it's still winter in places. It's getting hot waaay too early in the SE.
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[quote timestamp="1427948786" source="/post/8775/thread" author="@gwbushhog"][quote source="/post/8769/thread" timestamp="1427943930" author="@pinstriper"][p]I just made a similar run, not in an RV, but in a u-haul. Going from Phoenix to Portlandia. Found out while eating dinner at the Sizzler (seriously ? Sizzler ? I thought they were not only out of business but all the principals were serving time) in Flagstaff (which is actually the finest dining available in Flagstaff) that I was about to drive through a winter storm that the weather channel named "Quantum" (I guess because it sounds scary and of course "winter storm maximum terminator paper cut" was too long for the headline crawl at the bottom of the screen).[/p][p]
[/p][p]So instead of driving during the day around the south and north rims of the grand canyon, and through Bryce Canyon, and Vermillion Cliffs, and Zion, and no less than 3 other national forest/parks/monuments, we high-tailed it out of there in an ill-advised attempt to drive straight through and at least get to the other side of the storm before it hit. Didn't work. We went through at night. In whiteout blizzard conditions. Didn't see a thing. Speed dropped to 25 mph and we almost died several times. [/p][p]
[/p][p]Some day I'll make that run at my leisure and enjoy it.[/p][p]
[/p][p][/p][/quote][p]Oh, wow, Pinstriper, so glad the you made it back to make this post. What would we of this forum do without YOU?! [/p][p]
[/p][p]It's hard to believe that it's still winter in places. It's getting hot waaay too early in the SE.
[/p][/quote]-18 C (-0.4F) here this morning but it's supposed to be 9C (48.2F) tomorrow. There is still a lot of snow here but a lot melted since spring is started, hopefully it will be melted by May campgrounds here usually open on May 15 but often there is still a bit of snow left, this year we had more than usual so will probably have some left!
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Quote from: @pinstriper" source="/post/8769/thread" timestamp="1427943930[p]I just made a similar run, not in an RV, but in a u-haul. Going from Phoenix to Portlandia. Found out while eating dinner at the Sizzler (seriously ? Sizzler ? I thought they were not only out of business but all the principals were serving time) in Flagstaff (which is actually the finest dining available in Flagstaff) that I was about to drive through a winter storm that the weather channel named "Quantum" (I guess because it sounds scary and of course "winter storm maximum terminator paper cut" was too long for the headline crawl at the bottom of the screen).[/p][p]
[/p][p]So instead of driving during the day around the south and north rims of the grand canyon, and through Bryce Canyon, and Vermillion Cliffs, and Zion, and no less than 3 other national forest/parks/monuments, we high-tailed it out of there in an ill-advised attempt to drive straight through and at least get to the other side of the storm before it hit. Didn't work. We went through at night. In whiteout blizzard conditions. Didn't see a thing. Speed dropped to 25 mph and we almost died several times. [/p][p]
[/p][p]Some day I'll make that run at my leisure and enjoy it.[/p][p]
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[p]Oh, wow, Pinstriper, so glad the you made it back to make this post. What would we of this forum do without YOU?! [/p][p]
[/p][p]It's hard to believe that it's still winter in places. It's getting hot waaay too early in the SE.
[/p][/quote][p]This was back the end of February, and the pucker factor was high. It was the storm that ran from southern Nevada to Arkansas, though a big storm in Boston took over the news.[/p][p]
[/p][p]We couldn't go any further when at 3am we pulled into a town where we could actually pull over. Miraculously, there was a motel who answered the phone.[/p][p]
[/p][p]We didn't beat the storm, but we had gotten far enough to be on the other side of it, and plow crews got the roads passable by the time the photo was taken. If we hadn't hammerheaded through the night, we would have been stuck the other side for at least a full day.
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