This is trip 15, in 2015! We arrived in Phoenix (AZ) on March 25th and traveled North and East, taking in Jerome, Mogollon Rim, Zuni (NM), El Morro, Farmington, Durango (CO), Ridgway, Black Canyon NP, Breckenridge and Golden. Moving North from there we have been to Fort Collins, Laramie (WY), Cheyenne, Fort Laramie, Chadron (NE), and on to Custer (SD) to explore The Black Hills, as far North as Devil's Tower (WY). From there we have driven East to Dreadwood,then on to pickup our mail in Box Elder before exploring The Badlands NP. We have been to the capital Pierre (SD Capital), before driving North up the Missouri to Bismarck, the capital of North Dakota. We have finished towing by driving via Fargo and Sauk Centre to Minneapolis, where we will clean and store the rig, ready for us when we return for Trip 16 in the Fall (DV). On this trip we have towed the trailer just over 2800 miles.
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Thursday, June 11, 2015

Last stop

Thursday
Yesterday we left Sauk Centre behind and continued South to our final campground for this trip.
After a long period of juggling the various factors for our exit we have eventually made our decisions.
When we leave we need to weigh up:
Where we will store the rig?
Is it close enough to the airport to drop on the morning of departure, or do we need to get it in the night before and stay in a motel?
How do we get to the airport? Taxi, rental car or lift.
Seems quite simple, but it seems to take some time or organise.
For this trips exit one scenario that looked like it would work included a storage  place I had found about 40 miles from the airport. With a Budget Car Rental only 5 miles away and a campground even closer this looked good, as the storage was only $75 per month.
The second scenario was another storage place that is only about 7 miles from airport, but he is charging $100 per month. There is a car rental about 7 miles away and a campground only a 3.6 miles away.
The first scenario looked better until we realized that we would have to store it the night before in order to make sure we could get to the airport by midday (that is another $75).
Then the storage guy in scenario 2 said he would take us to the airport. So although the storage will cost us $75 more for our three months back home, we save $56 on car rental and $35 on staying at the campground rather than motelling it on the last night.
So we have gone for scenario 2, though it got a bit sticky when we tried to book a campsite to include the weekend, but we are here now and things seem OK.
Spent most of today cleaning inside the trailer, as it was raining outside.
Hope it is better tomorrow.


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