July 12, - Friday

Moving Day.

Well,  it was a fabulous morning!  Fabulous.

Most of you know that I am a morning person.  My day typically starts at 6am.  I love this time of day.   In the RV, I have a new routine.  I crawl out of bed as quietly as I can (which isn't very) and Tucker, Loki and I move to the kitchen... which is literally 7 feet away.  The teapot gets going and Loki gets some food in her dish.   I slip on my shoes and walk another 10 feet forward to the door where Tucker gets 'hook up', I grap a poop bag and out the door we go for the morning walk.  With the hot Arizona and Utah heat, these early morning walks are the best.  Tucker literally dances to go.

Once back in the trailer I get my cup of tea (in my beautiful new ceramic tea cup which I LOVE) and sit in the co-pilot seat.  I open the front 'window' and watch the world go by.  This is sometimes my facebook time or messages time too, but the most fun is watching the campground come alive with activity.  After an hour or so of this, I go about the rest of my morning which usually involves dishes and trash and clean up... some computer blogging (hello... its 10:45 right now... I'm late).  And a plan for the day is made.

Well... on July 12th, this was pretty much the scenario with the added element of it being moving day for us.  We would be traveling from Monument Valley,  Utah to Durango Colorado.  Its about a 3.5 hour trek.  Check out time is 11am.   John, who is definitly NOT a morning person wants to get up two hours before departure to have time to get woke.   Well... this didn't happen.

I was having a great relaxing morning.   Stowed everything away, got my tea, played on the computer, did a kick-ass Sudoku... just a great relaxing morning.  I lost a little track of time.  Time was a problem.  Arizona does not do daylight savings time and apparently is in a different time zone from Colorado.  Monument Valley does daylight savings time but is not in the same time zone.  My computer is still on STX time and my cell phone was on Phoenix time.   I remain firm in the fact that John did NOT ask me to wake him up yesterday.  I was letting him sleep.  I was happily writing to all of you (two of you)... when John did get up and asked the time.   My computer said 1:30... I subtracted 3 hours and told him it was 10:30.  He was NOT HAPPY... he wanted it to be 9am.  OOOPPPPS.  Further ooopppps when moments later he discovers that it is actually 11:30 where we are and we are suppossed to already be gone.  This not only makes us late to check out but puts our whole day behind schedule.  Sleepy, barely awake John was immediatly put into RUSH mode and rush mode and methodical preparations for leaving are not necessarily great companions.   FUN?  not so much.

Hey... but we did it.  45 minutes later we were rolling down the road.

Our travels took us through 4 Corners. 

I can be seen here kneeling with one paw in each of the four states - NM, AZ, UT, CO   .   I waited in blazing hot sun, in line with 50 other people, to get this shot.  No, John was not interested.  He did not have kind words for the kind of heat we experienced at 2 in the afternoon at 4 corners.   Bye Bye Desert... here we go to the mountains.

We had a great travel trip despite the somewhat not so great start.  Ally B did awesome, cruised right along with no issues while I chased her in the 'yet to be named' jeep.  We arrived at our new campground in Durango right at 5pm and got a GREAT spot with some nice neighbors.!

Weird think... there is a Silky Terrier on one side and a Yorkie Terrier on the other side.  Tucker is in dog friend Heaven!