We got here about 12:30 this afternoon and plan on staying here until the weather clears, that should be Thursday or Friday.
I just heard that if you are trying to head north from Arizona through Nevada or Utah you are out of luck. The three main roads are either closed ( 95 and 93) and I-15 through Utah may close or could be closed now.
Here are today’s campsite pictures, we’re in # 37.
This is our view.
Here is today’s drive.
We are just north of Carlsbad, NM.
Their was a sign at the visitor’s center saying the campground was full. We drove into the campground to find a site and than went back to the main road to the dump station.
We set up in site 36 by the tree in the center. I have the TV satellite dish on the roof of our RV and the tree was in the way to get a signal. While we were setting up camp the guy in site 37 left. We decided to move camp to 37 rather than getting up on the roof and taking the sat. dish down so we could get a signal.
Hank is really happy. We got out for a walk this afternoon, this campground does not seem to have any Goat Heads.
I’ll end today with some sunset pictures.
Tomorrow Sunday October 18, we are going to return to Brantley Lake SP, for several reasons.
The weather is going to turn bad late Tuesday, LOT of rain.
The classic Kid picture.
Not his original head stone put one that has been used for a long time. I has actually been stolen twice, thus the steel around it.
Part of the collection was a half dozen old vehicles, this is a 1950 pickup.
We visited 
Interesting day.
Campsite pictures, we are in site 5.
Here are some pictures of Eastern New Mexico’s fall bird, the wasp. The park ranger at Bottomless Lakes SP said they get a bunch of these every fall and we have had our share today.
These brass couplers will sure make getting water a lot easier. I’m sure I will enjoy them. Speaking of water, our drinking water is a lot better this year than what we had last fall. This year we are filtering the water through 3 filters before it gets to the holding tank and then once more at the kitchen faucet. The water in the bathroom sink is much much better than what we had last year. I am using a universal water filter right at the park water faucet, than a large 2 stage filter before it goes into the holding tank and than a universal filter at the drinking water tap at the kitchen sink. When we traveled down here for two weeks at a time we could get by with the bad taste for several days, however when we are here for 2 to 3 months at a time good tasting water becomes more important.
It is in one of the towns old and really cool homes, built in 1910 to 1912 it belonged to the White family until 1976 when it was given to the city. Most of the original photo collection has been moved to a new building next door. It does have some interesting bathroom sink fixtures.
Martha (our GPS) wanted me to turn down this dirt road that leads to Pecos just outside Roswell, NM.
Here’s a road view and you can see we looped around, drove into Roswell, turned right and followed the signs to the park.
Here is the aerial view of the same route.
This is the drive for today, I think it was 118 miles.
Guess who we saw today?
Think we’ll go north a ways and than head back west following the warm weather.
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Campground location Pictures:
Nice place with water and electricity at all the sights. Our current plan is to leave here Thursday the 15th and go north to Roswell.
Eight rows of covered parking with two rows of cars under each cover and it looks like thirty cars out from the store.
