My Life and Travels
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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 is why we moved south.
At Cochiti the forecast is:
A couple of hundred miles south
Home on wheels we might as well be warm. In previous years we would travel without reservations or a day or two ahead. This year I set down while at Cochiti and made reservations through the middle of November when we have to start looking at the weather in the California mountains.
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
Done , uploaded one picture at a time.
Over the last several days I have updated the blog covering some of the things we have done during this outing. Something new is the balloon videos I took during Fiesta, they are on October 10th.
Marley has been enjoying this campground at Cochiti Dam it’s has some grass for him to pee & poo on.
Another travel day, 201 miles.
We are at a rest stop 2 miles south of Orovanda, NV. The area is not marked with parking spots so I pulled up along the outside corner so we can put the bedroom slide out to night. It is hot and we are running the air conditioners. The rear coach storage bay is 105.
It is smokey here as is most of Oregon, Idaho, Montana and norther California.
Another travel day.
We spent 3 hours this afternoon at Hilgard State Park on I-84 coming out of the Blue Mountains. Only had a 5 hour drive so we spent some time up in the mountains where it was cooler then the 98 degrees it was going to be here in Ontario. We stayed in the day use area which has a circular turn around at the far end of the park. The challenge with the turn around is it had a tree leaning out high over the road which I thought might hit the coach. I decided it was better to unhook the pick-up than chance damaging the coach. Second time I have had to unhook the tow to turn around. The “Motorhome 100000 M” is from a previous trip through, currently at 134,000 miles.
Our view tonight.
After we pulled into the rest stop I took Marley out for a pee and then reached into the refrigerator for a Bud Light.
I found out that Pepsi and Bud Light cans are almost the same color.
We are on the first day of our Fall trip.
We will not be doing much exploring. Our first stop is at Richard and Vickie’s for a couple of days, then on to San Juan River in northern New Mexico flyfishing and the first two weeks of October at the Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque. These are all things we have done in the past and looking forward to doing them again.
Today’s travels, 270 miles from the big house to Hermiston with an hour stop at the Garcia’s
The haze you see is from the Schnieder Creek Fire which is just south of Cliffdell, Wa and just east of Chinook Pass. We were originally scheduled to be at Salmon Cove Group Camp Ground for week and than move to New Mexico. All the camp grounds in this area have been closed since mid August with this 83,000 acre fire. Looking forward to going to this campground next year.