Today was laundry and grocery shopping day. We were in the check out line at Walmart today when all the cash registers in the building went down, not a happy group of people. Took about 20 minutes to get everything back up and running.
Three of my favorite people.
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Brantley Lake State Park, North Of Carlsbad Caverns – Thursday October 13, 2016
We came back to see the bats at Carlsbad Caverns again. They were amazing last year and since we were halfway across New Mexico we continued east a ways. There is no point in going north of Albuquerque this time of year because the weather is going to start getting cold. The weather report for home is a major wind and rain storm this weekend, Yuck.
Don’t know how long we will be here. Going to see the bats a couple of times, need to do laundry, food shopping and spend some time doing nothing aka retirement.
Campsite pictures, same site as last year, site 37.
Here is the view out the front window.
The site across from us is closed for the time being, electrical is out. It also looks like they ran new power lines into the park since we were here last time. They we having some problem with about half of the reservation sites and could not figure out what was wrong when we left last year.
Today’s drive.
The short line just above the lake is a stop at Lakewood Post Office. I purchased a new camera strap from Amazon which Richard has been using. I had it sent to Brian and then when we decided to come in this direction I asked Brian to send it General Delivery to Lakewood.
We found a site and then went and dumped the holding tanks. We are set for a while.
Santa Rosa Lake State Park, NM – Wednesday October 12, 2016
We are in site A12, by 5:00 all the electrical site were full.
Chair is on the site post because I had to drive around the loop an extra time, I was to close to the bushes on the left.
Today’s drive.
Cochiti COE Campground – Tuesday October 11, 2016
Campsite pictures for this Campground are in Sunday’s post. We spent today in Santa Fe looking around the town plaza.
Vicki sent me this picture of Jean and I watching the morning balloons. We spent many mornings during the last week setting in these exact spots.
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta – Sunday October 09 2016
This is the last morning of balloons and we leave to head north and then east, I think.
Maps of today’s drive. We are at Cochiti COE Campground south of Santa Fe.
Drove through the campground to find a site and then dumped the holding tanks, after 9 days they were full.
We are in site 7, power but no water.
We went to another site to get water. I have been carrying an extra water hose since we got this motor home, today was the first time I have used it. All the water was up on the hill above the sites on the inside of the loop.
Almost made it, needed several more feet.
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta – Saturday October 8, 2016
Guess what, more balloons, our last full day.
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta – Friday October 7, 2016
Morning flight balloons:
Friday night was also an evening glow, however we focused on Star Wars.
Characters kind of marched onto the field. They then spent time taking pictures with the people on the field.
One of the glow balloons.
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta – Thursday October 6, 2016
In the evening we went to the launch field to see the special shapes glow. This is when the balloons are inflated in the dark and lite by the burners.
Two people in our group helped a team inflate their balloon.
This balloon has four tanks of propane.
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta – Wednesday October 5, 2016
More balloons:
I started out by editing my pictures down to 50 pictures I wanted to post however I’m only going to show seven. I might post them when we get a wifi connection.
Before sunrise 12 balloons are inflated and lite by the burners. When the winds are good they will lift off.
One of the challenges of these night pictures is focusing in the dark.
Most mornings Yoda and Darth Vader came our way.
We picked up an extra traveler at Bluewater Lake State Park, he just decided to leave.
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta – Tuesday October 4, 2016
Again this morning balloons came our way. They didn’t start up until after 7:30 a.m. because of the wind at upper elevation.
Each morning one or two of the first balloons show the flag.
The “Orlando Balloon Rides” balloon had two people from our group on it. Thirteen people on this balloon.
These two balloons are at the same distance the Orlando balloon is one of the biggest balloons of the day.
One of the cool balloons landing.
Looking up into a balloon.
Some came in real close.
Looking up into a balloon.
Sunday evening the Balloon Event people came and asked if we would allow this guy from Canada park in our reserved area because the park was full and he know we had a couple of no shows. Last night way after dark we saw him down by the back of his Airstream trailer dumping his grey water out onto the ground. We have lost our belief in the common good and do what is best for just us, what an a-hole.