May 20, 2013 - Albuquerque, New Mexico

20May2013 - This AM we are off to American RV Park in Albuquerque, NM. We will be here for three days. We arrived around 3PM and got setup, had BLTs for late lunch/dinner. Gene unhooked the car and discovered the battery drained, some glitch in the switch that turns power off. No worries though the RV park sent someone to give us a jump so all is well. We made a trip to camping world to pick up couple items and decided to just chill the rest of the evening. 21May2013 - We toured the International Balloon Museum today. It was very...

May 20, 2013 - Travel Day

BEGINNING MILEAGE 42762 We traveled along I-40 into New Mexico, today saw a lot of nothing, oh yea we did see some prong horns which we think look like antelope. Weather started out at 59 degrees when we got up around 6:30 and by the time we left it was up to 70 degrees and only got up to 73 so it was nice just real WINDY again. We stopped for diesel in Tucumcari, NM paying $3.76 and 7.7 mpg again. Stopped for the day in Albuquerque, NM at Enchanted Trails Campground. ENDING MILEAGE 43067 traveled 305 miles today.

May 19, 2013 - Second Round For ABQ

From High Desert RV Park – Albuquerque, NM You just have to love the “high blowing winds” of this region that we have experienced the last two days pulling our rig. Then add to that the mountains we encountered on our trip from Tucumcari to ABQ yesterday and poor miles per gallon was a result……..Dodge City to Tucumcari 8.6 and Tucumcari to ABQ 8.2. On the trip from Tucumcari to ABQ we went from 4140 foot elevation to 7120 feet before we got to coast into ABQ otherwise the mpg would have been closer to 7.0! This is the second time we have...

May 18, 2013 - Here we are !!!

This week we moved to the KOA Campground in Albuquerque and plan to spend a month here to finish up our appointments and such before heading out to unknown places. We sure miss the spaciousness of the COE parks and the NM State Parks but we are here for the convenience and not the fondness of being packed in like sardines. - The temps here the past week have been pleasant with it being in the 80's every day. With low humidity it's nice. The swimming pool just opened yesterday and I checked out the water temp and I think I will wait a few...

May 18, 2013 - Kaibab Lake, AZ to Albuquerque, NM

Guess what?? Together we tried pulling the poop-tube out of the bumper again this morning and we got it out! YAY...we don't have to buy another one! Things are continuing to look up. We crossed into New Mexico today and so moved our watches forward an hour. It's still windy everywhere and of course it's never a tail wind; usually a cross wind. I used Ms. Garmin (bitch) to find a Best Buy in Albuquerque. Our plan was to unhook the trailer at the El Rancho RV park, go to Best Buy to buy a laptop, then go out to dinner somewhere, maybe even...

May 7, 2013 - Enjoying Albuquerque!

May 7th- Guess what!?! Today we are wearing T-shirts & no jackets!!! It feels sooooo good! First thing on our agenda this morning is to get a car wash! Our car is soooooo dirty from driving in all the rain, you can't even tell what color it is!?! Otis isn't going with us today so after a nice potty walk we head out for a carwash then we're going to play "TOURISTS"! I know the car felt better after her bath, she sure looked better! We drove over to a section of town called Historic Old Town filled with lots of shops to poke around in & lots...

May 7, 2013 - Albuquerque, New Mexico

Today started with Fran cooking breakfast before we started out to do things in Albuquerque. Our first stop was Camping World - just for RV supplies. On to visit a Tiffin dealer and check out the KOA here and also the FamCamp at Kirkland AFB. Both would work for us if we needed something on the east side of Albuquerque. Then we ventured into Old Town. We have been there several times before and wanted to go to have our lunch-din there and walk around a little. Thanks to the gentleman in the visitor center we found a great restaurant -...

May 6, 2013 - Rollin along........

May 2nd-6th 2013 Our destination goal when we left Florida is to reach the state of Utah before it gets too hot to enjoy.During our travels until we reach Utah our stops will be mostly one nighters, until we reach our Utah unless,there is a specific point of interest we want to check out before moving on!May 2nd we reached our destination for the night, Montgomery,Al.We stayed at The Woods RV Park, it was a small park but just for the night & a rainy night at that... May 3rd- Our destination today was Little Rock, Arkansas.It was a drizzly...

May 6, 2013 - Travel day - Albuquerque, New Mexico

We was happy to leave - we was up and on the road by 7:30am. We will try another park next time in Clovis. The travel day was filled with high winds, rain and hail and also an 18 wheeler side-swiped us but only got our mirror on the passenger side. We sat in a rest area about 40 miles east on IH-40 for about 15 minutes for a bad storm to pass. We had rain and hail and very high winds so we thought the rest area would be the best place to be. Notice the clouds in the picture - dark clouds above us but blue skies where we are going. And as we...

May 4, 2013 - Albuquerque, NM - High Desert RV Park

Our trip from Palo Duro Canyon State Park, TX to Albuquerque, NM was 330 miles, mostly on I-40. With the exception of a few short stretches, the road was very good. Once we got into New Mexico we were up and down hills reaching a maximum altitude of about 7,100 feet soon after Clines Corners. We did see the largest wind farm we have seen. It covered the area north of the highway for about 40 miles. There must have been over a thousand windmills but we didn't count! We are staying at the High Desert RV Park a little west of Albuquerque. It...

Apr 25, 2013 - Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque was just a stopping spot for us this trip, but what I saw made me want to go back and explore - while we were there, we found out that there was a big Pow Wow going on .... next time :) Once we left, we stopped at Roswell to see the UFO Museum for about 1/2 hour then headed out again. The next stop was 4 corners monument, where you can touch all 4 corners of 4 states at one time (Utah, Colorado,New Mexico, and Arizona). They have booths set up all around the monument and this is where you could buy touristy stuff from any one of...

Apr 23, 2013 - Albuquerque

We arrived yesterday after a 5 1/2 drive. We had to backtrack a bit as the shortcut to I25 was not advised with the trailer. We just here for 2 nights. We will probably check out Old town Albuquerque today. Not much to look at on the drive up only flat desert. I25 follows the Rio Grande River. Oh we pass the town of Capitan located by the Lincoln National Forest. This is where Smokey the Bear was found forest during the fire. They have a Smokey the Bear History Park it showed on the map. It is an important route as many followed this route...