Taking a Break.

July 22, 2016 Left Deming around 9:00 AM headed for Albuquerque for VA appointments on July 25th and 27th...We arrived at the Moose Lodge in T or C and got camp set up...Hell it's Friday night,,,,(Steak NIght) So had dinner at the lodge...Great Filet Mignon, bacon wrapped of course, Baked Potato, Corn and Roll....Let me tell you, that filet could literally be cut with a fork...Excellent....

July 23, 2016: Decided to take the dogs out to the lake so they could get their feet wet...That did not go well, the road I wanted to take was closed...Looked like they are going to be repaving it...so ended driving out to Engle...nice drive but un eventful..did see a small herd of Bison though..

July 24, 2016: Got a fairly early start to Albuquerque. Had decided we would stay at the East Heights Moose lodge...No trouble finding it, However the 30 amp service we were told they had ended up being 3 15 amp services with low voltage to boot. We did spend the night. I shut down everything electric except the AC..Refrigerator and Hot water heater were switched to gas..Voltage 105 VAC..Too damn low....Called the other Moose Lodge in the area, they had no idea what power they had in their RV sites....Several calls and still no info...

July 25 2016: Made my VA appointment, went back to the East heights Moose lodge and packed up to leave..Without too much trouble we found the other Moose lodge. Disappointed was not the first thing that came out of my mouth...It had 2 RV sites (If you could call them that) stuck in their back yard and was pretty much a dump..Started calling RV parks that were either full or did not allow dogs...Finally found 1 and headed in it's direction ...Got on I-40 W and things were looking pretty good, although not for long..Next thing we are on I-25, So being me I said screw it we are getting out of Dodge...Headed South on 1-25 and started calling RV parks...Found 1 in San Antonio and went for it...Found it a few miles down HWY-1 in San Antone, got camp set up and headed to the Owl Cafe for a burger, and very good it was, Cold beer and Pecan Pie to go...The park is Called the Bosque Bird watchers RV park and is located just out side the entrance to the Bosque Del Apache Wilderness area...

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July 26 2016 Left the Bosque around 9:00 AM. Tried for a few Geocaches between Socorro and Pie town, but the first 5 were across fences, which by the looks of them had had gates previously...

Stopped by the Very Large Array.   
On the way and  snapped a couple of pictures.

 Made it to Pie Town and checked into the Pie Town RV park at $25.00 / night. Went to one of the local restaurants and had a green chili cheeseburger, and a New Mexico Apple pie to go. (New Mexico Apple Pie had Green Chili in it.)..It's still warm from the oven so will demolish it this evening....The people that owned the park also have other businesses..

Later: The New Mexico Apple Pie was wonderful...Something about the sweet and hot together....

July 27 2016: The plan for the day, Find fuel, find some kind of grocery store, and do a couple of geocaches...We will see how far the plan gets..Tomorrow we will head for Holbrook...

July 27 2016 Kind of a day off thing...We went on a quest which was to find fuel and a couple of staples...We drove back towards Daitle to pick up a couple of Geocaches, Then one in Pie town. Then headed for Quemado for fuel...No fuel in Pie town...Made it to Quemado and picked up the stuff we needed including fuel and headed back to camp. We managed to pick up 3 Geocaches and 4 Pokemoms. One of the Geocaches was at a Historical Marker, Agnes Morley Cleaveland 1884-1958

 A ways down the road from the previous Historical markers we found this.

I guess it is where Agnes is buried..It has Morley engraved on it..


July 28 2016 Headed out for Show Low AZ. Why?.....Just because....Good enough..Spent 2 days there and did pretty much nothing..We did take a ride out to the Hon -dah casino and looked around. Walked around inside for a bit but did not lose a dime...

July 29 2016 On the way to Holbrook AZ. Staying at the OK RV Park, booked 2 days...

July 30 2016. It is now Saturday and we are heading for the Petrified Forest and Painted desert...Stopped at Jim Gray's Petrified Wood Co, and spent an hour or so looking around. 

 


Trip went as good as can be expected with a couple of old farts, we got tired we quit, but not before the end..Had no luck at all finding any RV spaces within 100 miles of the Grand Canyon, so guess we will make it another time.

July 31 2016 On the road again, this time headed towards home. Today we will stop in Eagar AZ and spend the night at the Bear Claw RV park in Eagar, It is around 87 miles.

Arrived in Eagar AZ around 11:00 AM and got checked into the Bear Paw RV Park...Nice little park with a lot of seasonal's. It has very large sites, like double wide. Located just outside of town it is very quiet considering how full the park is. We will spend 2 days here. May do a little Geocaching tomorrow. 

 We Picked up a couple of Geocaches and a few Pokemon, then went to DQ for a Blizzard,,...Needless to say we did not eat dinner that night....It did rain slightly that nite. In the morning we headed for home and got in around 1:00 PM...

We had a great time and it was a welcome retreat from Deming...Almost like a vacation...