We drove our coach 247 miles, about four hours of driving (and a couple of hours of stoppage), from Las Cruces, New Mexico to Tombstone, Arizona.

Here’s the map route, heading west:

An interactive map, with our stops marked:

We usually toad up (aka connecting the truck to the coach) by our site, but there wasn’t a great place to do that this time, so we went over by the office. So Jenn drove the coach, and I followed in the truck:

Toading up; hooking up the tow bar and cables, switching the truck transmission to neutral, disconnecting the battery (via a push button), and connecting the brake controller:

The brake controller:

On our way; there were lots of signs like these for several tchotchke shops:

Fireworks and tchotchkes:

Inspection station, with nobody staffing it:

One of several billboards for The Thing?

Our first stop, at a parking area (i.e. like a rest area, with no bathrooms):

Nice to see mountains:

Another tchotchkes shop, with a fun fence painted like storefronts:

Fuel stop:

A third of a tank (we actually paid less than this, thanks to the TSD fuel discount card):

Filling the Diesel Exhaust Fluid:

Then we parked at this truck stop for lunch:

Heading out:

Continental divide:

Lots of signs about dust storms; this one sensibly worded as “caution dust storms”:

Another sensible sign, “zero visibility possible”:

But “dust storms may exist”; yes, indeed, but kinda a clumsy way to say that:

Welcome to Arizona:

Another truck stop, just for a stretch and bathroom break (in our coach, of course):

An interesting and very sketchy-looking homemade trailer:

Benson, Arizona:

One lane roadworks:

Uncomfortably narrow for our coach:

St. David:

Our destination: