Today was laundry day. It is always a challenge to find a laundromat. The first one we found on Yelp we could not find in town. I think it was where they are building a new Buffalo Wings restaurant. The second one work out great.
Motorhome improvement:
Last year I added to ball valve to our shower. It is not the most “high end” shower fixture however it sure works great. It is a 1/4 turn on and off which makes controlling the water flow prefect. The hot and cold water mix values on motor homes are not the best quality and it’s difficult to get the right temperature when trying to use the least amount of water. Once I get the correct water temp I only have to use the ball valve to control the water flow.
This works great.
I also changed out the shower head last year. This one mixes air with the water flow and spins the water to help create more water pressure.
This shower head is a lot heavier than the original head so I added these two strings to help support the shower head and allow for two different water flow angles.
It was totally dark, the light is from lightening and this shows some of the rain.
I got some lightening in these pictures.
The sky was lighting up all around us.
An amazing 62 feet high.
This one shows the some of the size of the caverns.
A flower from the natural entrance.
The ranger said it is an hour trip to the bottom, we took 2 hours and enjoyed every minute of the trip down.
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.
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.
