Egress.....

 7:11 am - Monday - April 20th - White Hills, AZ - 66° F, humidity 12%, cloud cover 8%, wind 11 mph out of the south by southeast....partially cloudy today with a forecast high of 88° F, but we shall not be here to see that.  On this date in 2025 we had just dropped the trailer tongue on the Newell hitch.....

....almost exactly one year to the date we left this year.  The next morning we would begin our journey north to LPG&RVR.  The view this morning.....

....at the TA truck stop in White Hills, AZ.

Our Jello goal was to be on the road exiting TWW around 12 pm, so when we arose from our nightly slumber around 7 am we had 5 hours to do the last 'few' things.  By last 'few' things I mean move our two 330 watt solar panels which charge the Bluetti battery which powers trailer over to Phyllis' Newell to help keep her batteries charged throughout the summer, strap a 10 foot, 3" diameter pipe to our trailer roof which we will use to hard plumb our black tank to the sewer connection in site 55 at LPG&RVR this summer, put the Predator 5000 into the passenger side engine bay, lock up everything on the property, park the Cushman, and Yamaha Rhino in the barn for the summer (new this year), disconnect the coach from our permanent sewer line at TWW, disconnect the coach from shore power, finish securing the final few things in the trailer, put everything we are not taking with us in the garage, and finally back the Newell out of her site for the first time in 6 months, then drop the trailer tongue on the Newell hitch.  Always way more than you think on the final day.

By the time all that was done it was around 11:20 am.  We then pulled the trailer out of its site about 70 yards in order to insert the VW in the trailer.  By the time we had strapped down the VW, and locked the trailer for travel it was 11:40 am, and time for my departure shower in the house, and I needed one....lol!  By 12 pm I was sitting in the driver seat, turned over the big Detroit Diesel 6v92, and began our egress from TWW.  The north/south arterial dirt road is in really, really bad shape right now, and we were only able to average about 7 mph for the 7 mile extraction, so it took us about an hour to get to pavement....US-66.  Wow....that was brutal, but we made it, and began the hour long drive to Kingman where we would pickup US-93 northbound to Las Vegas.  

Our plan was to take on fuel for the Newell to top off her tank for the drive north, and then spend the night in the TA truck stop parking area in White Hills, AZ.  US-93 out of Kingman is a road in need of new pavement, and it has been for 15 years.  The first 25 miles was 'shake, rattle and roll', but we finally hit smooth pavement about 20 miles out from the TA (Travelcenters of America) where we arrived without incident around 3 pm.  The pump price for diesel at this station was $6.279/gallon....ouch!  But wait, there's more.....we have the Open Roads discount card which turned this horrifying price into a much more reasonable, although still way too high, $4.544/gallon.  We saved close to $100 before transaction fees.  Our discount, before fees, was $94.99.  Instead of paying $351.90, we paid $266.82 (after $10 in transaction fees were deducted)....  

.....it's always noisy in truck stops, as you can imagine, but we slept well all things being considered, and now I sit here finishing today's post, and getting ready to hit the road to Amargosa Valley where we will spend the night again as we did last year.

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