{"id":2510,"date":"2015-04-11T12:17:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T18:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2016-09-07T20:04:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T17:04:03","slug":"route-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/route-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Route North"},"content":{"rendered":"

So many people are traveling in the next month that I have a feeling paths could cross if itineraries were coordinated. This is what I’m looking at:<\/p>\n

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The first thing to address is that I am adding a full 400KM to my trip by going through Nogales rather than doing a straight shot to Ciudad Juarez. I’ve asked both RVers and a couple of neighbours who know my familiarity with the language and the consensus is that going on through Ciudad Juarez is too dangerous for anyone to do, much less for me as a solo female traveler. Locals fully agree with the current travel warnings for the northern part of the country<\/a>. The bulk of the additional mileage will be within the US in states with very low fuel costs, even taking into account the terrible exchange rate right now. So all of that added together means that I am taking the same route north within Mexico as I took south.<\/p>\n

Another point to make is that I found the two weeks on the road in the fall surprisingly long and I’m planning to do a full four weeks this time because I do not want to get home till the end of May because of weather and things I want to see in Wyoming and SD. So I have budgeted to spend up to three weeks total in motels with weekly rates in areas where I can do day trips. So I’m open to suggestions on what three cities I could pick for that.<\/p>\n

Also, I have my Interagency Pass<\/a> and am going to route myself through as many attractions covered by it as I can!<\/p>\n

Finally, I know this is a mountain route and that I’ll need to monitor the weather closely. My alternative plan is go way east to Kansas to visit my friend L and then take the very familiar route home from there. But I really want to add NM and Wyoming to my visited maps list, so I’m hoping my route will work out.<\/p>\n

So here’s my rough itinerary at this point:<\/p>\n

April 25th: travel to San Carlos. It’s a long haul and I have decided to take the toll road the whole way. RVs can do the trip in about ten hours, so I’m thinking I’ll be able to do it in eight.<\/p>\n

April 26th: travel to Nogales\/border crossing. Overnight in or near Nogales at a motel.<\/p>\n

April 27th: travel to Las Cruces, New Mexico, or the environs, and spend a full week in southern NM, putting me to May 3rd.<\/p>\n

First week of May: more NM travel, heading north to Albuquerque and Santa Fe.<\/p>\n

Second week of May (to the 14th: traveling through Colorado (I welcome all suggestions for getting around Denver!)<\/p>\n

Third week of May (to the 21st): traveling through Wyoming and visiting Devil’s Tower.<\/p>\n

Memorial Day Week: South Dakota Black Hills, including visiting with reader Vicki and Mount Rushmore.<\/p>\n

May 25thish: begin the final push north. Deadwood is on the way and I’ll spend a split day there (afternoon and the next morning).<\/p>\n

May 26thish: travel to Scobey, MT, and spend the night ahead of the border crossing. Resist the urge to just push through and get home so that…<\/p>\n

May 27thish: arrive home late morning, with plenty of time to open up the rig, assess damage (if any), air the place out, start the fridge, set up internet, and, hopefully, have happy hour with C&C!<\/p>\n

Yes, I am looking forward to this trip and getting home. No, I am not sad about leaving Isla. I have had an amazing winter and I’ll have an amazing summer at home and I’ll have another amazing winter here next year. I remember how reluctant I was to get to SK in 2013, and look how that turned out. I have so many plans for the summer and we’ll see how many I can squeeze into the few short months I’ll be there. Because if the summer is anything like the winter has been, next thing I’ll know, it’ll be late October and I’ll be wondering where the time went!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So many people are traveling in the next month that I have a feeling paths could cross if itineraries were coordinated. This is what I’m looking at: The first thing to address is that I am adding a full 400KM to my trip by going through Nogales rather than doing a straight shot to Ciudad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[853],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-accommodation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}