We’d been umming and aahing about staying a few days near Moab, which was 2.5 hours drive away, but we both woke up this morning and decided to drive the 6-7 hours to Cedar City, where we would try and change to an earlier flight.

We arrived at the Cedar city campground just after 5pm (the same one as our first night here, and also where we spent a week with covid last year). It’s not that it’s a particularly nice campground, more that it’s familiar, and Cedar city is a nice town, not too big, but with everything you need.

The plan was to change our flight to Thursday (it was currently Monday), and that would give us a full day in Cedar city to clean the van out, vacuum and wash it. But when I tried to change the flights, Thursday was all booked out. The next available flight was Saturday. I had it in my mind I just wanted to get home now, and didn’t want to wait until Sat. The agent said there was also a flight on Wednesday, but we thought that would be too early. Plus she said it was too late to apply our recognition upgrade. I told her we’d think about it and get back to them.

Mike said there was no way we would make it for Wed night, not if we wanted to give Rodger needed a good clean. I disagreed. We still have an hour of daylight to clean Rodger out and pack out bags, and leave early in the morning. I rang our storage unit to see if we could put Rodger back tomorrow. She said they normally needed 23-48 hours notice. Bugger. But she said it should be ok, just to let her know when.

So I rang Air New Zealand back, got a different agent and he changed our flights, and also applied our recognition upgrade. Now all we had to do was get back to storage, find flights to LAX, and book a hotel in LAX. Oh, and empty the fuel from the generator. That could wait until the morning.