My Life and Travels
Today is moving day, Rockhound was booked for the weekend so we moved into Deming at the Escapees RV Park. It is not much more than a place to stay. All gravel with highway I-10 noise all night and at least two trains during the night.
We did get some laundry for so that will get us back to the big house.
Today’s drive, 12 miles.
Phone will not upload this post, I’ll take the pictures out and than upload each picture one at a time. Had go back and start all over again, text would not upload.
After two weeks at Caballo SP it is moving day. We are going 80 miles south to Rockhound State Park 10 miles south of Deming New Mexico. This is a unique place setting on the side a hill which at one time had a lot of geodes on it. Our site has a beautiful view out across a large flat open desert area. We are on site 23. We were here back in 2014 on our first long retirement trip.
Moving day, today we move from 28 to 9. Actually only moving across the road and west two sites. We will be here until we leave Caballo
Moving day, need to move from site 30 to 28.
This blog is going up a little at a time. I wrote it once and it would not upload, that usually means something is wrong with one of the pictures. I’ll do the text then go back and upload the pictures.
This is our drive south looking for warmer weather.
We have been here several times before and enjoy the large sites. Currently plan to stay for two weeks and will be in three sites. The first one is site 30 until Friday.
Our view
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We moved to site 64 today. It has been cold the last few days and we have used more propane than we usually do this time of year. Moved to a site with electricity so we will not run out of propane.
I spent a lot of time today mapping out the remaining days of this outing. We need to be back at the big house by November 22. Camp grounds are busier than past years and weekends are a significant challenge. I think I have a plan for every day except November 5 & 6.
This campground is 50 north of Albuquerque and a good place to get some sleep and decide where to go next. In site 39 with no electric and freezing at night. I did something wrong when I tried to book a site a couple of months ago. It looked to me as if I could not book a site after September 30. When we got here the host said the reservation system ends on October 15, oh well.
The drive.
You may notice a detour in our route to Albuquerque. We still need propane for the coach so we are going to stop at Amerigas again this morning, they are supposed to open at 8:00. We got there at 9:30 and this time I didn’t turn into the yard before I looked to see the yard gate closed again. We continued south looking for a place to get off the road and do some googling to find propane. Several miles down the road I saw an Amerigas bottle delivery truck pull into an Albertson’s parking lot. I followed him in and parked in the exit road, the little islands they put in some parking lots make it difficult for our 53 feet of coach and tow to maneuver around. The Amerigas driver was really nice and pointed us toward an Ace Hardware a half mile down the road where we got propane. He did call the Amerigas yard and confirm the yard person to fill bottles did not show for work again. To get the coach close enough to fill with propane I did have to unhook the pickup again.
This is the first place we set up camp. It has a great view over the RV Park towards the launch field. I did find out the one person in a white pickup trumps three people in two golf carts. After three of us had camp set up a guy in a white pickup came by and said we could not park where we were and HAD to move.
This is our second and final spot. On a level ridge with significant drop offs on both sides. We were level.
We made the correct decision to move south a day early. I talked to some folks who spent Monday night in Farmington and it rained hard all night. We are all set up and ready for almost two weeks of balloons.
Today’s drive and camp site at Jacob Lake CG, this is at the north entrance of Grand Canyon.
Today’s drive to this state park, we have spent many nights here, site 13.
