Here is the 1977 Tioga that's Alaska bound. It looks better when it's dark. We spent two days at the Benson Escapee Co-op in their boondock area before heading out yesterday. Eloise found 2 1/2 pages worth of stuff she felt should be included in our trip...and last night wished we'd packed more blankets!!

We left early (for us) around 7AM. We don't usually get underway until at least 9, but we were trying to get ahead of the strong winds that have been going on for a while in the desert. We shouldn't have bothered, it was windy as soon as we got going.

We filled the gas tank in Benson and again at Eloy, so we could make it into Cottonwood for our 1st night. Eloise computed our MPGs for that short run, and it was about 9.6. Doesn't sound like much to some, but to us, that's much better than the 6.5 we've been used to! Gas at Eloy was $3.44.9.

Until I can figure out how to put pictures down into the blog text, we'll make separate blogs for each different picture subject. If anybody can help me out, please respond!