Today is packing-up day. Finally, we'll be back in our own beds tonight. We got loaded up and were pulling out about 10:30. Jeff and Brenda, who had much more to load, were about an hour behind us. And Sherry and Danny didn't really start until Jeff and Brenda vacated the campsite, so I'm not sure what time they headed out. But their plan was just to go to the Petrified Forest. However, a storm blew in, and they continued on to Williams.
We stopped in Show Low for sodas, then headed down off the mountains. We hit heavy rain, and even a little hail, between Show Low and Overgard, but other than that, it was good driving, with me in the big red truck pulling the box trailer, following the Purple Palace with Joe in the lead. We got to Payson just before 2:00, so we pulled into the casino, had lunch, and gambled for an hour or so to take a break. (We won just enough to pay for our lunch.) We left there at 4:00 and pulled into our house about 5:30. It's about 220 miles from our house to the campground at Big Lake, going through Payson. Jeff and Brenda came down through Salt River Canyon, which he thinks is closer. Both are pretty drives, but the Salt River Canyon way is a harder pull, so me being a rookie truckdriver pulling a load chose the Payson way.
We could see that it had rained recently because we had puddles on our dirt road, but it wasn't raining anymore and it was HOT HOT HOT. Inside our house was 95 so it took a while to get that cooled down. We unloaded just the essentials, went out for pizza, and came back and watched some TV until about 9:00. Then we went to bed. We know we have a lot of work ahead of us in the next few days, but it felt good to be home.
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