15 – Don’t spare the (crazy) horses
San Diego to Louisiana, 1,684 miles, five different states, six days. This is
what travelling is all about, on the road all the time. Except this was not what
our travels had been all about. We had spent most of the last month and a bit
just in one state, California, and spent the final month of our adventures
similarly based in a single state - Florida.
We left California for the last time on New Year's Day. The supposedly sunny
state of blue skies and white beaches had provided us with a very varied and
often hostile climate. However, we had swiftly realized that California is a
disaster hot spot and actually the rainy weather that had been present during
a lot of our time there had been something of a walk in the park. What with
forest fires, earthquakes, and mudslides we were lucky to escape without
serious injury.
We saw signs of the fire damage as we drove east from San Diego on
January 1st. It really is a wonder that Governor Schwarzenegger ever bothers
stepping the area down from a state of emergency, he must feel like he is
constantly living in an action movie.
On the first day of our cross continent journey we drove into Arizona - losing
an hour in the process. We reached Tucson just in time to check in to the
Crazy Horses RV Park, only covering a modest 406 miles out of the nearly
1,700 we hoped to cover in less than a week. The day had been pretty
uneventful. We had encountered a surprising amount of traffic given that it