Category: Campgrounds

Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, NM – October 5, 2018

Today was balloon crew training morning. I was out the door at 6:00 a.m. going to an elementary school 10 miles from here. We went through the process of inflating a balloon and then taking it down so it is ready for the next day. The pilot we worked with is a really really nice guy providing us with lots of how to information and answering all our questions. He did not fly today because we were on the east side of the valley and the wind was blowing east. He needed to get a sponsor banner attached to his balloon and it would be a lot easier in the school’s grass field rather than some other field where ever he was able to land.

This is a picture of his balloon trading card, I took a couple of pictures of the balloon but I am to lazy to get out the computer and download the pictures.

Back of the card.

pictures looking halfway across the park

today

Tuesday

Looking forward to a great Fiesta, Brian and Christine get here tomorrow.

Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, NM – Tuesday October 2, 2018

We are here for 14 days.

Today’s drive:

Campsite pictures.

Out the front window.

Aerials from InReach GPS.

This is an old dump which is used for RV parking during the Fiesta.

The red circle is around the balloon launch field and the yellow circle is the balloon museum where we are having dinner next Thursday the night they light up the special shapes balloons.

Cochiti Lake, NM – Thursday September 27, 2018

We moved here waiting for the Balloon Fiesta to start next week.  We will move to Albuquerque on Tuesday October 2nd it is about 50 miles.  We stayed here for a couple of days after the 2016 fiesta and it seemed like a good place to be before Albuquerque.  The way the fiesta RV area is set up once you get there you cannot move so it is a good idea to arrive with empty black and gray tanks and full of propane and water.  This park has water and a dumps site.

I’ll add campsite pictures from Ipad. Site 43.

Winslow, AZ – Homolivi State Park – Saturday September 15, 2018

Jason asked us to be at his shop at 12:30, we got there at 12:00 I told him I don’t want him waiting for us.  NAPA is supposed to make their Saturday parts delivery at 1:00.  They decided it would work best for them if they made the 1:00 p.m. delivery at 3:00 today.  Jason installed the ignition switch and we were out of RV Country by 3:45. 

We drove of Winslow, AZ and decided to stay at Homolivi State Park (site 30) it would be quieter than staying at the local I-40 rest stop. 
Did a Walmart stop this evening.

Today’s drive

 

 

No campsite picture

Lee’s Ferry, AZ – Friday September 7, 2018

Up early today and 292 miles to Lee’s Ferry for two nights. We got one of the two front row sites overlooking the Colorado River. The current plan is to be here for two nights then move to Gooseneck State Park in Utah. Temperature today is 98 and 103 tomorrow, parked so the refrigerator has afternoon shade.

The drive.

These front row sites have a large covered area and beautiful view of the river and hills.

Bliss, ID Rest Stop – Wednesday September 5, 2018

Tonight we are at a Rest Stop 10 Miles east of Glenns Ferry, ID. Nice drive today if you don’t count the three cans of pop which came rolling the length of the coach when I had to make a quicker then normal stop while coming through Boise. Oh yes, all three opened up on the trip from back to the front.

Campsite picture and the windmills out the front window.

The 100,000 way point was from April 7, 2018 on our way north.

Hermiston, OR Rest Stop – Tuesday September 4, 2018

First day of our fall trip. We are headed to northern New Mexico for a couple of weeks fishing and than Albuquerque for the balloon fiesta.

Stopped at the Garcia’s on our way through the Tri-Cities.

Tomorrow will end just this side of Boise, ID. I have mapped out five days of driving and we have until September 11th to get to Cottonwood Campground on the San Juan River just below the Navajo Lake Dam.