Cody’s blog

Seligman/Route 66 KOA Journey
21305 I-40 Business Loop
Seligman, AZ 86337

928-422-3358

August 1, 2021

Sunday morning, I got up early and got ready to hit the road again. Stopped at the office to check out and buy some snacks, got some recommendations for where to buy leveling blocks, and headed out.

Stopped for gas at a Love’s along the highway — my first and only time getting gas with the trailer attached. It was a bit nerve-wracking getting my rig into the pump, even though they had section of roomy RV pumps. But I took it slowly and got it in with no trouble. This was going to be the difficult part of traveling if I didn’t unhook the trailer at the camp site — I’d have to make all my gas stops with the trailer.

Then I stopped at the Walmart in Kingman, Arizona for leveling blocks. Parked the truck and trailer in two facing spots out at the edge of the parking lot and then ran into my next issue: what to do with the cats while I was in Walmart. It was still around 100 F, way to hot to leave them in the truck or the trailer. But I’d bought a pet stroller at one point when I thought I might just stay in hotels along the way instead of buying an RV, and I had it with me in the truck bed. So I pulled it out, put the cats in it, and brought them into Walmart with me. Fortunately, they were too unnerved by the whole experience to complain, and we got in and out fairly quickly with the leveling blocks. A few people noticed that there were cats in my stroller, and thought it was funny. It ended up being the only time I used the stroller, but I was really glad to have it at the time.

Arrived at Seligman KOA at around 2:30 PM, and used my brand new leveling blocks to level it side-to-side. It was still high in front, though, and after texting with my brother I screwed up my courage and unhitched the trailer so I could level it front-to-back as well. Got electricity and water hooked up, and settled the cats in the trailer with the air conditioning on.

Since the truck was already unhitched, I drove to town and filled it with gas for the next day.

I was quickly settling into a routine: arrive at the campground, hook up the electricity and water, level the trailer and unhitch, bring the cats into the trailer, then make myself a bottle of Gatorade and sit down with snacks and Gatorade to rest and plan my stop for the next day. Walk around the campground and take some pics, write in my journal, make dinner, feed the cats. It was too hot for most of the trip to do much of anything else, and I didn’t really have time to hang out and sight-see.

In the morning, the routine was to feed the cats, clean up the trailer, have my morning cocoa while fiddling around online, then start packing up to head out. I’d either gas up the truck in the morning before hitching up the trailer, or in the afternoon once I’d arrived at the next campsite. Getting set up/torn down got easier each day as I settled into a routine (and got my back and shoulders strong from hand-cranking the tongue lift). At first it took an hour or more each time, but by the end of the trip it was a half hour or less.

The campground was pleasant in a low-key way. It was near railroad tracks, so we heard trains go by now and then, but I like the sound of trains (as long as they’re not too loud) and it didn’t bother me. There were a few more trees than there had been at Needles, so I had some shade, and the scenery was very pretty.