Getting to New Mexico.

07/15/2011
Left home around 6:30 a.m. and headed towards Santa Anna for a short visit with Keith's parents. Got there around 9:30 a.m.



Paul was busy building breakfast for us. We had eggs, bacon, sausage, french toast, and actually some decent Dunkin Donuts coffee. We ate and checked out their new home. By the time we left at 10:30 a.m. it was 100 degrees on the front porch.


We headed up towards Lubbock and filled up with fuel in Sweetwater. We also started thinking about our destination today and decided we'd try to make it to Santa Fe instead of Tucumcari. When we got to Fort Sumner I called Ronda to she if she could find us a campground in Santa Fe. Our new found travel advisor (Ronda) suggested we stay in Vaughn instead of going to Santa Fe because it would take us out of our way. So that's what we did.


We had our first official setup in this rinky dink RV park (9 spots) and Pancho didn't complain at all. We decided to cook hot dogs on the RVQ. We found some chili at the convenience store but they didn't have any can openers (we didn't buy one before we left). So we ate naked hot dogs, but they were good. Keith likes them with ketchup and mustard. Yukkkk. :(


The door latch on the camper had been a real pain since I got it. Previous owner put in a new one, but it didn't appear to be working right. After taking it apart we found a spring was not set in the right place, so it works great now.


Met a nice couple from San Antonio that left out of there this morning. They're two slots over.


BAD NEWS: Before we left, Ronda took pictures of us and I also took pictures of Paul and Tammy at their house. For some reason Ronda's camera would take the pictures but would not store them onto the memory card. Good thing she made me take a spare memory card because that one works and is plenty big enough. So no pictures to post today.


We drove 583 miles today! A good head start. On to Durango in the morning.