Wednesday January 17th 2018

I wqs up early in the morning to get ready for travel. Working steadily I pulled out of the site around ten this morning and left the RV park around ten twenty. To checkout I had to wait in the line of people picking up their mail and one new check-in. A little over three hours elapsed time later I pulled into the River Islands State Park on the Parker Strip in Arizona. I’m now officially in the Mountain time zone so it was four hours on the clock. However, my cell phone still thinks I in the Pacific Time Zone. It is making contact with a tower across the river in California when it can get signal.

Site 21 at the River Island State Park.

This campground is located in a whole in the rocks on the side of the Colorado River a little ways downstream from the Parker Dam. It’s a beautiful place, but communications signals don’t seem to get in very well. I have no local TV reception just satellite. I have one bar of cell phone service, but no data service unless I walk down to the rivers edge. The park has a WiFi connection, but it isn’t the fastest or most stable. I remember having issues last spring when I stopped here. I just didn’t remember the details.

Preparing to travel and the actual travel was tense after three months in one place. I was extra careful double checking many things as I got ready to travel. During the actual travel I was hyper sensitive to every noise and vibration. Nothing was wrong that smother roads wouldn’t solve. Between rough pavement, uneven bridge joints and the roller coaster contour of the road through the desert it was not a smooth ride.

It is warmer here than Las Vegas. This park is about fifteen hundred feet lower than Las Vegas and the temperature is more than ten degrees warmer than Las Vegas. It was in the low seventies when I arrived this afternoon. The weather in Las Vegas was forecast to deteriorate over the next few days. I assume it will here too. I move on toward Phoenix on Saturday.