Aerial view of park
Well I could not get a signal on the aircard to do so. Wasn't much to say anyway. We covered about 525 miles so it was a long day. We spent the night at a park called West 40 Rv park on Route 66 in Shamrock Tx. When we arrived we were the ONLY people in the entire park :) , while setting up a motorhome showed up so 2 of us ended filling up the park. We slept in a little late and didn't get moving till almost 9 but it made for a nice causal day. Winds were terrible last night, gusts up to 49mph. I had the satellite dish set up and the wind blew it over and broke the arm LOL!! Another project.
Fast forward to today, we did about 400 miles today to get to the west side of Albuquerque so we would not have to deal with the morning traffic thru town. We are in a campground called Enchanted Trails and fortunately it is a Passport America affiliation so it was only $14 a night.
Was great to see the mountains again, we forgot how beautiful they are! It interesting to see the landscape change as we go farther west. At one point we picked up a hitch hiking tumble weed! It snagged itself on the landing gear of the rv and rode with us for about a 100 miles. Not sure what the penalty is for transporting tumble weeds out of their home territory! Other interesting thing is to see all the old houses and in a couple cases towns that are just left and delapating in the weather, probably well over a 100 years old. Where did the people go and who owns the property now? Kind of sad to think about it. Also some of the homes you see out in the middle of a mass of land with nothing around and MANY miles from town.
I did see a pronghorn antelope along the way, at first just thought it was a big dog. It had its head down eating and when I was able to see the front of it I saw the horns. He was all alone and wandering kind of like a lost rv'er LOL!
We hit an elevation of 7050 feet today and saw snow on the mountain sides. Hoping we don't have to see any of that stuff falling although we saw some flurries when we took off yesterday morning in Missouri. We are going to try to get thru Flagstaff during the day when it is warm, we don't want to risk spending the night there and getting snow! We could possible make Morro Bay on Tuesday but most likely will make it Wednesday.
SO you are up to speed with us. Maybe tomorrow I can post another update.
