November 9-13, 2017
Anyone remember that song?
Our solar panel system stopped charging last week and so we are at Camping World. Clare and the Zamp technician did some troubleshooting and narrowed it down, and so we are here resolving the issue. Our solar panel system on this camper is 50% than on the Eagle Cap and with the Lithium batteries we should be good on just 6 hours of sunlight a day, but…so Clare is running down every last little possibility to maximize our power!
We’re near Flagstaff heading towards Sedona and then across Arizona to Albuquerque, NM to another Camping World to have our couch swapped out for a reclining loveseat (we will be living large!). Then towards Padre Island, Texas.
Peepers, trees with leaves and 70 degrees! Say what? yup, we are in Cape Verde, AZ and the scenery and weather have changed, surprisingly. As we drove through the canyon north of Sedona we saw big tall trees with leaves on them!

WOW! haven’t seen that since mid-September. Red Rock Sedona was drier, but apparently has irrigation water as we saw businesses and houses with flowering shrubs and tall decidious trees. Stopped at an RV park on a flowing river with 200 year old Sycamore trees with their leaves still green! And then the peepers started in at dusk…very sweet!
Petroglyphs! Yup- in a little state park on a small lake that is part of the Little Colorado River, along the shore is a small rocky hillside with petroglyphs scattered among the rocks- they are about 1000 years old!

And in November, although the weather is in the 70s there are only about 5 campsites occupied, and we are right on the lake!