My Life and Travels
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.
I spent six hours on Friday updating the blog. I had data on two cameras, Ipad and laptop to get all lined up and posted. Ended up using 4 gigs of data to get everything moved around and the posts written and posted for September 16 to 27, 2018.
Today I cleaned and waxed the bottom the the rear slide. The slide rides on a piece of plastic and it is important to keep the bottom of the slide nice and slick. I actually had not done this for a while.
Also, use CLR to clean all the calcium deposits off the water hose quick connect. It was getting to the point the connection were not so quick.
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.
Chaco Canyon is one of the largest sites in the southwest built between 850 to 1150. It a really cool place.
Amazing in size there are 600 rooms and 5 stories high.
The drive takes a while, at least if you don’t want to beat your vehicle to death. The last 4.5 miles of a 16 mile gravel road is wash board. The peaks are 9 to 12 inches across and the valley’s are 3/4 to 1.5 inches deep. It took us long time to go the 4.5 miles. You can go a lot faster but you’ll sure pay for it in the long run.
We drove to a casino on I-25 so we could go to Chaco Canyon National Historical Site on Wednesday. We should have stayed in Bloomfield at an RV park and driven south from there on Wednesday, oh well.
Today is the last day of fishing on the San Juan River.
This point has seems to have lot of 8 – 12 fish along it.
Today I got
3 to the net
3 on
and numerous strikes, had a great time for my last day on the river.
Sunday 9/23
Fished from camp waded out to the island and fished the west end and the south side.
2 strikes
2 on
2 to the net
Fished again above the BLM fishing area.
Nothing today, not even one strike.
Went up the river above the BLM area
You can see the BLM parking area at the end of the road just down river from the yellow line where I fished.
This is a closer view
1 strike
1 18 inch trout
These are not very good pictures but this is the largest trout I have every caught. The oval of my net is 16 inches and he was a couple of inches longer than the net. I took me a while to get him to the net, I did not want to loose him.
Saw a lot of big fish but they were just not feeding.
Fishing was slow today. The river’s flow is up and this is usually hard on the fishing, 3 strikes.
This is where I fished today.
