Time to move on down the road, more New Mexico and still great weather.

Where are we today ?

Elephant Butte State Park

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        Just taking our time today always up early and after coffee and computing got a few nice walkabouts this morning, then began to secure our coach and get on the road at 9 am.
     Headed on down the road through Roswell staying road 380 over the mountains and to I-25 south bound.
      It was kinda slow going but we not in a hurry  only 226 miles to go today. Mountains to climb, twisty windy roads and a few small villages to go through, Actually very scenic, love these back roads. a lot of times we could not get over 30 mph climbing but the bonus this year was our coach did not overheat at all! Guess the new rad and repairs did the trick. Was not too hot but still in the mid 70's.

nice quiet roads and next to no traffic, awesome

2 lane roads for the next 3 hours

small villages and settlements, kind cool

smokey bear historical park

          Along this route we passed a very interesting looking area, The Valley of the Fires. Apparently lava flows from many years ago

looks like tar that had dried and cracked 

       On to I 25 headed south we stopped at this nice New Mexico Rest area for a pit stop and a stretch. Very nice rest area.

         Then further down they have wind gust warnings , love the wind socks that they have so you know which way the wind gust will hit you, Not too windy today.

wind sock by the yellow sign in the middle,
sorry windshield kinda dirty

heading into Elephant Butte our first view of the lake

right through town to the state park

        Our map program said we should be here at 2:14 pm and we were right on time, really surprised with all the slow going we had today. Check in here and found a nice 1st come first served site right down by the beach, 30 amp and water, no sewer, but we have free very good wifi only $14.00 a night think we will hang our here for a bit. We were her a couple of years ago and loved the area.
       All set up and relaxing enjoying this 75F weather, overcast but still wonderful.

nice large sites lake right behind us

the lake right behind us

    We relaxed with our e-reades for a while and our neighbour came over to say hi and offer Suzie a necklace that he made, he had a large pile to choose from. no cost just a friendly camper that likes to share his crafts, not the first time we have run it this, Rv'er's are friendly people. We were introduced to him and his wife and chatted for quite a while, Darn if we can remember their names though. Such a super couple. Maybe this getting old is catching up with us?

Suzie had great choice and picked one that she liked

      Then we saw a bunny right behind us just doing what bunnies do, posing for us and eating, too fast for me to catch but did get a picture. Grilled rabbit is very tasty!

hi Bunny

      Then we checked out this homemade 5th wheel 2 sites down from us,  Very interesting and quite large , never know what we will see in our travels do we ?

a very large trailer

look at all the propane bottles he has!

   Soon time to whip up supper so tonight we had  a very nice Pork Rib Eye roast on our Weber Q 100, picked up for a good price the other day.

       Now added to this a grilled sweet potato  and heated up a can of corn. while we were sitting outside enjoying our e readers.

a bit of applesauce to go with the pork
sure did the trick , more leftovers

     That was our fun day enjoying new scenery and new places, the weather still amazing so no complaints here. We are still outside in the dark, at 8 pm posting this blog and reading and really enjoying the 68F(20c)weather ! What's not to love about that?
     Thanks for dropping on by and hope y'all had a great day as well.

226  miles today

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