We had such an amazing time in Mexico that we really regretted scheduling RV repair work for the day after we returned. We would have loved to extend our stay!
1. You know you’re a bored kid at a repair shop when you start making a chair out of magazines. 2. Hiding in the laundry bag at the laundromat. 3. Swimming at the hotel pool
We dropped our camper off at La Mesa RV in Phoenix and went to an inexpensive nearby hotel for the night. Once the repair work was finished we headed over to Cummins Onan to have our generator checked out because it had started acting wonky before we left for Mexico. (Just the latest thing to break for us!) After a few hours we were told it was a bad spark plug and hightailed it out of Phoenix to the quiet BLM area near Saddle Mountain about an hour outside of Phoenix.
The scenery was beautiful at Saddle Mountain in Tonopah AZ. We hiked up a small near by hill to take in the view of the amazing wildflower bloom. The next day we hiked up Saddle Mountain which was a tough hike with few trail markers, 3 miles round trip, and 1700 ft elevation gain. The view of the valley was rewarding and Eloise hiked almost all the way up on her own!
Hiking up Saddle Mountain
The next morning we decided to start the generator during breakfast (to make a giant pot of coffee..yawn!) and of course it wouldn’t start (Kevin knew the cause of its issues couldn’t be simply a bad spark plug) so back to Cummins we went. We boondocked in their parking lot for the whole next week while Kevin worked. We were able to get some much needed supplies in Phoenix and visited the Children’s museum which was a neat place to learn and play for both girls. Our generator was finally repaired (it was a bad coil) on a Friday at 4:30pm. We were glad to hopefully have that repaired for good and headed south to Gila Bend.
Phoenix Children’s Museum. She loved pretending to serve ice cream to other kids at the ice cream stand. We played with that for quite some time while Eliza napped.
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Glad to hear from you. Sounds wonderful .