My Life and Travels
We stayed at home this morning and watched the balloons from right outside our coach.
The first pictures are from the morning glow balloons. Their go up while it is still dark and light up the balloons while in the air.
The rest of the pictures are some of my favorite pictures.
A few of Sunday’s balloons. These are from the launch field.
Here are some of the pictures I took on Saturday from where we are parked.
First balloons of the fiesta taken from the couch.
Friday morning many of the balloons go out to local schools and show the kids how the balloons are inflated and then go flying.
Tomorrow is the official start of the fiesta and the weather forecast is for perfect weather.
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.
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.
We spent the day visiting a variety of places around Las Cruces.
Not your typical road runner.
Interesting materials
A lot of shoes.
Train station with several model trains set up in the station.
And on Indian head at the park where we had lunch.
We have a plan for the next couple of weeks.
We will be here till Sunday 10/30
Move to a county park on the west side of Tucson for a week.
Apache Junction for a couple of days to visit friends.
Quartzite, AZ for a few days and plan the trip from warm and sun to the big house for Turkey.
We spent the day visiting places in Las Cruces:
Museum of Nature and Science
the cultural and art museums were closed for updating
Basilica of San Albino
Building in which Billy the Kid was convicted of murder
Farm and Ranch Museum
This was the courthouse in Billy the Kid’s time.
Last year we were on the eastern side of New Mexico where he is buried.
The Farm and Ranch Museum had a whole section on bees, and Jean walked through the whole thing.
In site 19.
We were here last year however this year we can see the Lake.
Don’t know how long we will be here. Part of the plan is to go to Las Cruses for a couple of days. This is the closest state park we could get into, the drive from here isn’t much different than driving to Seattle from our big house. The weather is the important part, 86 today ( Monday) and lower 80’s the rest of the week.