My Life and Travels
The above link will give you all the information about this city. They say it is the oldest continuous inhabited city in North America. It was interesting and here are a bunch of pictures.
Sunday was the last day of the fiesta unfortunately it was to windy for any of the balloons to go up.
80% of the people in the south RV park left Sunday and the rest of us had to be out by 11:00 a.m. today.
We stopped and did some laundry so we would be set for another two weeks or so. One of the guys at the Laundromat was washer the balloon field official’s jackets, like 6 large commercial size washers of them. Jean was talking to him and he gave her two Zebra Launch Director pins.
Today’s drive.
We are back at Sky City Casino 60 miles east of Albuquerque. We needed to dump, get water and we really didn’t know where we are going next. Will HAVE to figure out where to go next. Oh, and also we wanted to see the Acoma Village which is 15 miles south of here. We’ll do that tomorrow.
Sky City Casino site 22.
A couple of morning pictures.
Saturday evening the wind was blowing to hard to put up balloons so quite a very pilots set their baskets and burns up and did what they call candle burns.
Stayed at the coach to watch balloons.
We found out that on Thursday morning a balloon landed on the road right behind our coach and the cyclone fence. Some of the folks around us helped to hold the balloon down. When they asked the pilot what he wanted to do he said he didn’t know, he’d like to wait until his crew chief arrived. The road is a one lane road with RV’s with sharp things on one side and a cyclone fence with sharp wires on the other side. They got a whole bunch of people on both sides of the balloon and as it came down they were able to feed the balloon envelope onto the road.
Morning glow
Balloons
The Wells Fargo Balloon came down in our field again today.
One of the crew chiefs came over to me and asked if I know anything about the coaches setting behind me. I said yes I live right there. She asked if their was anyplace around that repaired RV’s, I said yes out by the front gate, what do you need. She said she need air for one of the tires on her balloon cart. I told I could take care of that for her, it would take me a couple of minutes to get my compressor out.
She gave me this Launch Director pin.
And then came back and gave me a Wells Fargo Balloon Crew Member Pin.
Darth Vader landed in our area this morning, here are two of the t-shirt the crew was wearing.
This afternoon Natalie and Rafael came to visit. It was great to see Natalie and Rafael is a really cute 13 month old boy.
Today we got up at 4:30 a.m. to have breakfast at the balloon museum. Breakfast is from 5:30 a.m. to 9:30 with a buffet going the entire time. It was really nice because we were in a room overlooking the launch field which had wonderful heat and an outside balcony to take pictures.
This is the pin we got at the breakfast.
After the balloons went up we spent time touring the museum.
Thursday evening we went over to the launch field to do some shopping and watch the evening glow and fireworks. May of the balloons are inflated and then the burners light up the inside of the balloon.
This is followed by some really cool fireworks.
We stayed at home this morning and watched the balloons from right outside our coach. It is nice because I can have my morning coffee and Bailey’s and a bagel with cream cheese.
Morning glow.
Even Hank wanted to see the balloons this morning.
We stayed at home this morning and watched the balloons from right outside our coach.
The first pictures are from the morning glow balloons. Their go up while it is still dark and light up the balloons while in the air.
The rest of the pictures are some of my favorite pictures.
A few of Sunday’s balloons. These are from the launch field.
Here are some of the pictures I took on Saturday from where we are parked.
First balloons of the fiesta taken from the couch.
Friday morning many of the balloons go out to local schools and show the kids how the balloons are inflated and then go flying.
Tomorrow is the official start of the fiesta and the weather forecast is for perfect weather.