Travel from Surprise to Kingman, Arizona

We drove our coach 165 miles, about three hours of driving, from Surprise, Arizona to Kingman, Arizona.

Here’s the map route, heading northwest:

Kingman route

An interactive map, with our stops marked:

Saguaro cacti:

Saguaro cacti

This route was rather bad in terms of potholes on the road; these were relatively minor examples:

Potholes

So much so that some of our internet stuff fell down:

Internet stuff fell down

We had planned to stay at Horspitality RV Resort, but changed it due to our NIRVC visit:

Horspitality RV Park

A nearby horse event:

Horse event

Josua trees:

Josua tree

Josua trees

Josua tree

Back to saguaros:

Saguaros

Interesting rocks:

Interesting rocks

A roadside stop, basically a wide dirt area, where we made lunch in our coach:

Roadside stop

Roadside stop

More interesting rocks:

Interesting rocks

A river:

River

A truck had a tire blowout on their trailer, with bits of the tire on the road:

Tire on road

An interesting old Silver Streak trailer:

Silver Streak trailer

The rough road seemed to have shook our front driver-side slide slightly out; there was a little light coming in underneath. That’s not great:

Slide slightly out

Snowy mountains:

Snowy mountains

We filled up at a Petro truck stop:

Petro truck stop

Paladin stretching at the truck stop:

Paladin

We filled about 76 gallons of diesel (half our tank capacity; we usually fill when it gets about halfway). The pump price was $376.66:

Fuel pump

But that’s not what we actually paid, thanks to the Open Roads fuel discount program; we saved $92.82 on that fuel up, so “only” paid $293.77:

Fuel discount savings

Our destination:

Destination