Friday, March 20, 2020 -
J33
We set up camp around 9:30 am.
We stopped for a while at the DUMP Water station in PAGE (still the same one) and took the road to COCONINO NF.
The entrance of the Park is open but we are only very few visitors.
No Visitor Center opened but everything is perfectly maintained for our visit (WC).
We will take a lot of pleasure to ride through the forest and admire the places at each stop starting points of the trails.
We will meet more Mules Deer than visitors. It's scary but pretty awesome.
We will discover the Pueblos of the Amerindians of the beginning of the years 1000 AJC. Villages built on the rocks.
Fantastic landscapes.
Back to the RV we will go to a wild camp always alone or almost in the forest.
It is cold +/- 32°F or 0°C.
No BBQ or fire, quick meal and rest.
We went to bed after having decided to return to France on May 13 just before the end of our ESTA.
Serge and Elisabeth learn that their plane of March 25 is cancelled, they must leave LOS ANGELES on Sunday.
The information given by the embassy is confirmed: flights to France will be suspended for several weeks starting Sunday.
We hope to have taken the least bad solution and that the future will prove us right.
In the meantime, the cold is getting to us but the night will be good.
Saturday 21st March 2020 -
J34
Theoretically we enter the spring, concretely we raise the camp with 32°F/0°C but the sky is blue.
We park the RV at the entrance of the Park and return to our visit of the Park.
WUPATKI Main Pueblo in the Park and the remains of a well organized life around 1100 years BC.
The Visitor Center is closed but, once again, everything was planned for our visit: tourist guides, stamps of passage of the day. Impressive professionalism of the Rangers.
End of the morning back to the RV and road to FLAGSTAFF - AZ where we have to find our bike attachment.
Meal to be carried (it is everywhere the same) at TACOS BELL.
Installation of the hitch.
Road to PETRIFIED FOREST via Route 66
Departure from FLAGSTAFF and stop at the railroad crossing to let 121 cars pass !
5:50 p.m. Arrival at the entrance of the Park. The parking is equipped with spots for RV. At our arrival we are "welcomed" by an Indian that we suppose to be the owner of the place who asks us 12$ then 13 with the taxes. We explain that we don't need electricity, that we won't bother our neighbors with our generator that we won't make work because we have solar panels and we obtain the authorization to stay on the place after having been invited to settle down on the parking lot on the right of the entrance. (the competitor ? )
Here everything is closed. The 2 Visitors Centers on both sides of the road.
Only a dozen of old carcasses to occupy some parking spaces.
The wind blows strongly. We returned to the warmth for a movie evening " A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood ". Thank you Gauthier for this inspiring movie !
View here our route in COCONINO National Forest - Arizona
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