Category: Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta

Cochiti Lake, NM – Thursday September 27, 2018

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.

Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta – Thursday October 5, 2017

Little RV work today.  The 12 volt charger has been working on and off for the last couple of weeks.  We are just fine with the solar panels we have when there is sun, however there was not enough sun today and will not be enough tomorrow to bring the batteries back to fully charged.  With another 6 weeks before we get to the big house I went to Harbor Freight and got a 10 amp battery charger.  This one will go quite well with the two chargers I already have at the big house. I actually carried one of these charger on the last several trips, Oh well. 
See Richard I even got the one with the 50 amp boost. 
I did being the extra connectors I got with the solar panel so I was able to connect the alligator clamps from the charger to clamps that came with solar panel and thus plug into the solar panel connection. 
All set to go, when I started the generator the internal charger started working. I am ready when it decides not to work again.
After the 4:00 daily Escapees happy hour I started the generator and the internal charge did not come on.  When I plugged in the new charging system the internal system started charging.  Sure seems to be a problem with the internal’s systems ability to sense when to come on and charge. I don’t think it is a loose wire because I had the internal charger out while we were at the big house in July-August.  

Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta – Wednesday October 4, 2017

Today is our first day in Albuquerque and we will be here until the 16th.
The drive today.
We are at the south RV parking with the Escapees Boomer’s group. I think we will have 50 RV’s here for the event. 
We are in site B48C-1 right on the edge of what is called the BOX.  This is one of the landing sites south of the takeoff field. Last year we saw a bunch of balloons land in this BOX area. 
View out the front window.  
Here I am standing in front of the Motorhome looking toward the launch field. Balloons should rise from behind the building on the right side of this picture. 
Our campsite, pretty level on a hard seal coat road surface.  This area is an old garbage dump.  

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.