Leaving Texas on Our Way West

Up at 7AM which is a feat for me!! Actually woke up around 6 but laid around until then – breakfast, packed and to the dump station and out of the park by 9am. Bruce managed to bang his poor forehead again! This time on the overhead door of the basement. Luckily, no need for stitches but was a long shallow gash and the language that spew forth from his mouth!! Oh well, I’d probably have done the same. Not sure of our destination when we left but didn’t see anything in NM worth stopping for so headed for AZ. Just outside of AZ, Bruce noticed something flapping from my side of the camper – it was the skin of the camper which had come loose from the underside. Limped along for about 2 miles until we got to an exit that had a truck stop. All of the screws from the underside of the front section of the skin had stripped out! Bruce called RV Life/Funtime RV where we had bought our traveling home.  They gave us the service number, who gave us the manufacturers number, who was on the east coast and it was after 5pm there. Bruce was brilliant and took a couple of screws from other places on the underside to screw into the loose section and thought even to use a washer to help them stay in.  We made it to an RV park we found in Trailer Life, Lifestyle RV Park, which SOUNDED wonderful in the book but…not all that. It’s just a large gravel parking lot with tall evergreens next to each tight, side by side site. I’m not kidding that we could reach out and touch our neighbors RV!  The pool/spa/exercise room…well, pool was closed, spa looked nasty and the exercise room was ok. Bathrooms doors were kept locked and had to get the key from the office, which closes at 7 pm. Needless to say, just here for the night and will head over to Kartchner Caverns State Park to see what it is like tomorrow, find some more screws for the RV and call the manufacturer to see what they will do.