June 1, Sunday
We finally got started at 1 PM on Saturday, considerably later than planned. (I guess this is normal for us and I shouldn’t get so bothered by our perennial lateness.) We needed to get into Arizona on Saturday and planned to stop near Williams, AZ. An RVer had recommended an area near Coleman Lake on Forest Service lands as a nice boondock campsite. While driving, we set an appointment with our friend Joyce for breakfast 7:30 Sunday morning at the Cracker Barrel restaurant in Flagstaff. So, despite the late start, we HAD to make it to Williams for the night. Well, we pulled off the paved road onto a dirt Forest Service road about 11 PM in total darkness, found a wide flat spot and just parked and collapsed into bed. When I took the dogs out, the sky was crystal clear and FULL of stars. We are so hindered by light pollution near the city that we don’t appreciate the beauty of the night sky. In the morning, we saw that we were parked on the edge of a pretty oval meadow with just two other campers barely in sight.
We got up and off to Flagstaff in time for breakfast. We had a great visit with Joyce and caught up on all the news, including the imminent arrival of her first grandchild. We caught her during an overnight stop at home, en route with daughter and her husband from Colorado to San Diego to await baby’s arrival. It was a lucky happenstance for us all to be in Flagstaff that particular morning.
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