I have posted some pictures and a couple of videos from the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta on a webpage here.
I plan to add more pictures and videos to this page and maybe some additional pages.
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This is a new post vs historical
Big House – Tuesday November 12, 2019
Last day of driving to get to the big house
Trip wrap up
Motorhome 5371 miles
Pick – up 1403
Gas Prices
High $3.84 – Bakersfield, CA – November 9, 2019
Low $2.34 – New Mexico-Texas Boarder – Oct 22 and Oct 29, 2019
Avg $2.88
829.5 gallons (coach only)
Our 2019 Fall travels
Travels for 2019, 10981 miles and a great time.
Deming, NM – Tuesday October 29, 2019
A couple of days at the Escapees RV Park in Deming for a mail pickup, laundry, groceries and water. From here a night in Tucson then on to Quartzsite for a while to wait out the weather/fires in California. Drove 240 miles today
Van Horn, TX Rest Spot – Monday October 28, 2019
We left Big Bend and headed toward the big house, 223 miles today.
At Big Bend we were 2244 miles from the big house, 1345 from Atlanta, GA and 1904 Washington DC.
Campsite picture
I am updating this post in directly into WordPress so I can put pictures into galleries. The app I use on my Ipad does not have a gallery option.
Big Bend National Park, TX – Wednesday October 23, 2019
We are Rio Grande Village Campground in site 62.
I made a wrong turn while looking for a campsite and had to drive through the tent area, I now know the bracket I put on front of the cellphone signal booster works.
Think we will stay here until at least Monday 10/28.
Marathon, TX – Tuesday October 22, 2019
Still on our way toward Big Bend National Park, 356 miles today. Up early tomorrow with a goal of getting a site in the park. We still have 89 miles to the campground. Filled up with water this evening and we will dump holding tanks when we get to the park.
I did learn from our trip to Death Valley last spring, reset the satellite TV’s location location this evening so we will have the three major networks while at Big Bend ( don’t think we will have cell service).
Caballo State Park, NM – Monday October 21, 2019
Back on the road heading toward Big Bend National Park in south west Texas. 222.4 miles today. It was cold last night, 27 degrees this morning.
We have been here many times before, great location. In site 8.
Cochiti Lake, NM – Monday October 14, 2019
We moved 50 miles north for a little quiet and to relax for a couple of days.
Drive and campsite 39 pictures:
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, Nm – Sunday October 13, 2019
One of the other people in our Fiesta group also got to fly on Wednesday and they took this picture of the launch field.
I am in this picture, do you see me.
I’m in the basket under the Balloon with the arrow pointing at it. I guess I am a little hard to see.
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, NM – Friday October 11, 2019
Today’s picture was taken by Don Clapp, he has more amazing photos over on his Facebook page..
This morning was a good example of the difficulties of getting a balloon off the ground. The envelope was standing, John was in the basket with Bruce, when a gust of air came through the north end of the field on a diagonal line. This gust was maybe 100 wide and took out 5 or 6 balloons including ours.
One balloon was blown off the ground while still tethered to his pickup. Another dozen balloons who had their envelopes laying out on the ground put them back in the bag and called it a day.
One of the 1 inch round plastic supports which hold up the burner while the balloon is on the ground was broken off. Bruce had to go to Cameron balloon tent to have the end stuck that was in the basket drilled out and bought a new support. While he was there a special shapes balloon came in for a new set of four supports. All four of his got broken off.
Several hundred balloons went up today. We were in the wrong place at the wrong time. If we had been five minutes ahead of today’s time table we would have flown.