[Ray Eklund]

We are loading the AS with provisions, clean clothes and will be off next week to explore the Four Corners area. Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. It has been a few years since we explored the wonderful State and National Parks with their archaeological ruins, and we want to beat the tourist season, if there is one this year. Two to three weeks are the plan...

If you see a Silver Toyota Tundra pulling an Airstream with Colorado plates, either parked or traveling through town- wave us down, we always love to chat about new out of the way places to visit. With luck we will find some new places to camp and will be checking in with the Navajo tribal center in Arizona for information about Rockdocking. Chaco Canyon has enough washboard road to test our wood screws and tooth fillings! We will skip Mesa Verde as we have been there too many times already... but I love the Indian bread sold off the side of the road in the Park!

I am looking forward to clear skies, warm days, cool nights and a plume of red dust behind us. July and August are the monsoon season months, so now is the time to avoid the mud, flies and gumbo stuck to the fender wells...