(10-26-2026 05:13 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(10-26-2026 09:23 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(10-26-2026 09:11 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(10-25-2026 10:54 AM)TripleA Wrote:  Btw, I was planning to drop down to Hatch for some green chiles, then up through Tucson and Phoenix, and back to my route at Sedona. But I'm too late for Hatch, so I'm just east of Albuquerque now, headed to the Petrified Forest National Park and back to my planned tour schedule. Then Sedona, Grand Canyon South, Page AZ for slot canyons and Horseshoe Bend, then into Utah for the Mighty 5. Then to the Texas Hill Country on the way home. Back to Memphis by Nov. 24 at the latest.

What's wrong with the Rockies?

Is it just being near them with a 6400 lb trailer that is bad?

The Rockies are fine. They are beautiful and breathtaking. But I just finished driving down the front range from South Dakota to New Mexico, and the wind was up almost every day, in fact, so bad 2 different days, I just had to sit still.

Pulling a trailer in or near the Rockies is NOT fun. That's all I meant.

P.S. You quoted the wrong post, lol. I complained about the Rockies in a more recent post, actually in a different thread.

Yes, but it would have been off topic to ask the question in that thread. I thought it was probably just the wind with the trailer that was the issue.

Yep. The wind. Rain will also be an issue eventually, because it causes slick roads, and I have to travel a lot of 2-lane highways with little or no shoulders, and the threat of it in my path has me stopped again. I'm now in Holbrook AZ, just west of The Petrified Forest, which I saw yesterday, along with the Painted Desert. Surprisingly, I have had little rain since I started this trek in late August. Cost me a couple of days in Tucumcari, but that's it. The wind has been a MUCH bigger issue.

Of course, driving north to south down the front face of the easternmost Rockies didn't help any. Wind coming over the last of the Rockies, and me right up against them, was a biatch.

Here is my current problem. I am sitting between Flagstaff AZ and Gallup NM, in Holbrook, AZ. Heavy thunderstorms are expected today through Sunday afternoon. I was planning to drive to the Grand Canyon today, through Flagstaff and Williams AZ, then north to the Grand Canyon, but it's not worth starting out, then getting caught in the middle of it, when I can sit here safely at an RV park in Holbrook, and wait until it passes. My plan now is to sit here in Holbrook until Monday morning, since the storm is forecast to pass Sunday afternoon.

Here is a photo of the current problem for me, lol. Even if it somehow missed me in Holbrook, it is smacking the Grand Canyon. I am less than a day's drive away right now.