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 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 - 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 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 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...

Apr 3, 2013 - Grants To Albuquerque

Change of plans today. I was scheduled to visit Chaco Canyon National Park - a 2 hour drive in each direction. When I started the car my OnStar button was flashing red so I called the advisor to see what was the problem . It seems my backup battery is low and needs to be replaced. If I were to be in an accident it is possible they would not get the signal. No time to be driving to such a remote destination so I executed plan B - a drive on NM53, aka "The Trail of the Ancients." It was the path taken by Pueblos of Acoma, Zuni, and Coronado...

Mar 26, 2013 - Albuquerque, NM

We traveled I-40 to Albuquerque and stayed at American RV Park for $37/night. Spendy park, but nice and they provided free breakfast. Talked to park about the Balloon Fiesta in October. Need to book 9 months in advance for the big rig sights. Cost of $65/night with a three night minimum. It's an item on our bucket list, but looks like it will be a spendy stay there.

Mar 19, 2013 - American RV Park

Another day another state. Leisurely 9am start and away we went thru the rolling hills of N Arizona and New Mexico. Gas is down to 3.32 but the temp never went above 60f today quite a shock after the first part of our trip. Stopped at a knife shop and Randi got some new ones as well as a sharpener, do i sleep with one eye open? Country side changes yet again with different rocks and hills looks like sandstone that can be cut with water. Lots of cattle and horses in the fields don't know what they eat or who looks after them cause there is...

Feb 24, 2013 - Hot Air Balloon Festival City - Sorry too Windy and cold today

We got off to a very slow start morning for our trip to Albuquerque. Ed is not feeling well because of the cold weather, snow and high plains winds. For Me I really enjoyed the drive because of the painted desert and the gradual climb to about 7500 feet elevation, and down to about 5000 FT. in Albuquerque. More especially I like the trains from BNSF, trains that parallel I-40 our entire trip across today. They have two tracks and we had an opportunity to watch them going easy and west. I'm sure we Saw at least 30 different train sets,...