The route and stops for the California/Arizona Caravan to the FCU Balloon Rally in Albuquerque is starting to take shape. Since the campgrounds/parks in the area around the Fiesta are most likely to book up first, we are starting backwards in making reservations...huh?
Since Grants, New Mexico is on I40 and within 100 miles to Albuquerque, it has been deemed our last stop (Thursday) on the caravan before the Balloon Fiesta.
The Grants/Cibola Sands KOA has been recommended and selected as the RV Park for Thursday night, October 4, 2007. As of today there are plenty of large pull throughs with full hook ups and Wi Fi for our group, but please call and make your reservation ASAP to be ensure you get a space.
To make a reservation call: Suzanne at Grants/Cibola Sands KOA at (888) 562-5608, tell her you are with the Four Corners Balloon Rally Caravan so that she can try to keep us together.
Barstow (Tuesday) and Williams (Wednesday) locations will be announced soon, so watch for the notice on this thread.
John
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Great to see our ranks are forming up, loosely I hope I don't think any of us are gonna expect to much from Barstow, it is what it is, and for Williams, it will be about a 340 mile trek for some of us to Williams, some of it on Old Rte 66, so whatever is chosen probably needs to be easy to find, easy to park, preferably with pull throughs for some of the newbies and lazy ones and available for possibly a late arrival at night (dark???).
John
__________________ Travel is in my blood, adventure is my passport, aluminum is my favorite construction medium, and therefore, an Airstream was my destiny.
Great to see our ranks are forming up, loosely I hope I don't think any of us are gonna expect to much from Barstow, it is what it is, and for Williams, it will be about a 340 mile trek for some of us to Williams, some of it on Old Rte 66, so whatever is chosen probably needs to be easy to find, easy to park, preferably with pull throughs for some of the newbies and lazy ones and available for possibly a late arrival at night (dark???).
John
Full hookups would be nice. I'm thinking it'll be on the cool/cold side up there.
Don---Thanks for posting the info on the National Forest Campsites near Williams. I just checked with the folks in Williams National Forest Info and these campgrounds will be closing for the season on Sept 30 this year. Gates closed and locked means no overnighting within the camp, but day use permitted as a walk in. In in absence of fire restrictions, the national forest is open for boondock camping after the campground has closed for the season. We could be near the campground, just not in it. Perhaps that's all we really need for one night? Remember the night on I-10 West of Goodyear?
Great...but you better leave me a danish, cause as ya know, you are always the first one to rise in camp..so I am depending on you to hold down the continental for me.
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Mr Kevbo has spoken and the Williams location for the Wednesday, October 3, 2007 way point for the caravan to the FCU Balloon Rally is:
Railside RV Ranch, 877 Rodeo Rd, Williams, AZ
If you are joining us, make your own reservation with Pat or Tamara @ (888) 635-4077 and tell them you are with the "Airstream Group". the rate is $29.95 and they will discount 10% with AAA. They have pull throughs with full hook ups and WiFi so we can maintain our addiction to the forum.
Hopefully, we will see some AZ folks join the Cal folks in Williams. The Barstow stop is still being considered and should be announced soon. Rumor has it that some of the Cal folks are going to make Williams their first stop on the way to Albuquerque....now that is a long drive....sounds like something a cowboy would do!
PM me if you have any questions.
John
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Diana & I have made our reservations for both Wed and Thur nights at the group sites in Williams and Grants. We will not be overnighting in Barstow since it doesn't have a Kevbo recommendated Cowboy Bar.
You guys are in for an Awesome time, we just attended a Balloon Fest this past weekend!
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Diana & I have made our reservations for both Wed and Thur nights at the group sites in Williams and Grants. We will not be overnighting in Barstow since it doesn't have a Kevbo recommendated Cowboy Bar.
Bob,
Look forward to catching you at Williams....have a safe journey from Whittier..I spent 20 years there growing up in what was once an orange grove. Mid-century California was a great place.
And there is a Cowboy bar in Barstow...in fact I think they all are! And I bet Kevin has been there more than once.
John
__________________ Travel is in my blood, adventure is my passport, aluminum is my favorite construction medium, and therefore, an Airstream was my destiny.
Ok, paid my money, looking forward to the trip, Want to meet all you folks, but wow - here's the problem. I wake up in the middle of the night, in a cold sweat with the same dream. Now, there is only one way to say this, I'm fat. So I sign up for a hot air balloon ride in the dream and they light off the blasters and we don't move - they blast and blast - big roar - and we don't move - the Captain says "sorry man, you gotta get off". The humility, the embarrassment. People throwing hafe eaten snowcones at me. Back to the Airstream and only my dog Zap is happy to see me eager to lick the snowcone syrup from my sweat shirt. What to do???
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I don't think any of us are gonna expect to much from Barstow, it is what it is, and for Williams, it will be about a 340 mile trek for some of us to Williams, some of it on Old Rte 66, so whatever is chosen probably needs to be easy to find, easy to park, preferably with pull throughs for some of the newbies and lazy ones and available for possibly a late arrival at night (dark???). 
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