Moab Utah to Durango Colorado

 

Our one night stop

Wednesday June 19 2024

We left Spanish Trail RV Park at 9;30 this morning, our destination for today is HTR Durango Campground. This is a corporate owned campground and to be honest I expected it to be better than what we found it to be.

A creek front site as pictured on their website

The staff was nice and the office building looks new, but the campground is old. The sites are small with gravel and weeds, some have water/30 amp electric and some also have sewer. Our site is very narrow and backs to a small creek, but we can’t see it for the weeds.

Us backed up to the creek

The ride down from Moab was pleasant. There was not much traffic and the occasional passing lane made it easy for us to let any traffic by.  The first half of the trip was on new to us highway, well it was highway we haven’t been on in over ten years. We turned east in Cortez and retraced the route we took earlier this trip.

We have another malfunction with the truck that has manifested itself today. Actually we’ve been hearing suspicious rumbling’s before, but today we’ve had to stop the wishful thinking and admit something is wrong. I suspect we have a bad front wheel bearing on the truck. 

It's always something!

I jacked the front of the truck up here at the campground and the wheels are not loose (yet) nor do they feel rough when I spin them by hand, but the sound when we are rolling is compelling.

 

We debated our options and decided to skip our next campground in Del Norte Colorado and head directly to Los Alamos New Mexico. Once we get to our basecamp at RaeAnne’s house we will take the truck to be repaired. That way we won’t be stuck here in the event the job takes several days.

 

We planned on being in Los Alamos for two weeks anyhow, and that’s seems to be the best place to take care of the problem.