We were on the road by 8:30 headed to Tucson. The winds started immediately, and were the worse so far over the past few days. My hands still hurt as I type this blog!
As we got close to the Arizona State Line, we hit, or we were hit, by a small dust storm. The picture below, which I found on Google Images, shows a bit of what we faced, except ours did not cover the entire road, just the edge of the dust storm was on the road as we drove by.
It was enough to move us over a lane, and then back into our current lane...it was just luck that no other vehicles were close to us at that moment.
Figuring that when got to Arizona the winds might die down, but they did not die down, but became more tolerable.
While we were stopped at a rest area called Texas Canyon (it is a lovely rest area, very scenic) I looked and saw that temps in Tuscon were dropping into the mid-30's tonight. I immediately decided to scrap Cracker Barrel, and go to the Pima County Fair RV Park like we did last year. $35, there are hundreds and hundreds of spots, and we will stay warmer with electric heater going, and furnace backing up as it gets cold.
Crossing into Arizona meant another time change. Arizona does not do daylight savings time, so for about half the year they are on Pacific Time, and half the year they are on Mountain Time. Currently they are on Pacific Time.
As we parked the motorhome at our assigned spot, the guy who lead us there said that tonight's low 'could' be as low as 30...and next Monday the high is suppose to be 92. What a swing in temps around here.
