Arrival

Monday, April 29th
Kanab, UT

After the big traffic jam on Thursday, the remainder of our journey was uneventful. We encountered a few brief periods of rain in Oklahoma and Texas and crosswinds in New Mexico but weather presented no problems. KOA camp-grounds are pretty standardized, like McDonald's and Holiday Inns, so our four nights on the road were satisfactory but indistinguishable from each other.

The gentleman who checked us in at the Holbrook, AZ KOA told us that Route 89, the road we'd planned to take to Kanab, was closed because a portion of it had collapsed in February. That meant we'd have to take Route 89A, a longer and more difficult route. Learning from our 2010 experience when we expected the poor RV pull itself and the Jeep up a steep, narrow road with 3000' of elevation gain, we drove separately from Bitter Springs to Kanab, about 100 miles.

Our campground is nestled at the base of a red rock alcove three miles west of Kanab in an area called Settler's Cove. The former restaurant building is now the 'clubhouse' containing two bathrooms with showers, two lavatories, a free washer and dryer, a large room with card/game tables and a reading room with an eclectic collection of books and magazines. Currently, three sites are occupied: us, Deb, who does housekeeping at Parry Lodge, and an older couple we haven't met yet. Except for the two sites already occupied, we had our pick of the park and selected the one next a small rustic desert garden.

We have taken care of most of the chores involved in setting up and settling in but some remain; we'll tackle those tomorrow. I plan to post some pictures of our home for the summer.