Posts from the ‘RV Trips’ category

Taos in the morning

From Taos Valley RV Park and Campground…

While Taos is still high desert at about 7100 feet in elevation, the vegetation is mostly sage and juniper versus the cactus, mesquite and juniper of the southern high desert. And the mountains are part of larger ranges with foothills and rolling terrain on the approach in contrast to the southern small ranges that jutted out of the desert floor.

The sage can have a yellow flower which looks golden in the right light. The combination of sage and juniper makes for a wonderful, soft fragrance as well.

Taos in the morning.

Bosque Birdwatcher’s RV Park: San Antonio, NM

San Antonio, New Mexico is a small town, located just off I-25, south of Socorro by 10 miles, Albuquerque by 80 miles. It is home to Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge

Bosque del Apache is Spanish for “woods of the Apache,” and is rooted in the time when the Spanish observed Apaches routinely camped in the riverside forest. Since then the name has come to mean one of the most spectacular National Wildlife Refuges in North America. Here, tens of thousands of birds–including sandhill cranes, Arctic geese, and many kinds of ducks–gather each autumn and stay through the winter. Feeding snow geese erupt in explosions of wings when frightened by a stalking coyote, and at dusk, flight after flight of geese and cranes return to roost in the marshes.

In the summer Bosque del Apache lives its quiet, green life as an oasis in the arid lands that surround it. From the Bosque del Apache Wildlife website

From the main intersection in town, a small sign pointed the way to Bosque Birdwatcher’s RV Park, 3 miles south. The spot appeared to be a farm turned into RV spot with maybe 30 spaces that bordered the wildlife refuge.

This morning I saw what I think are Sandhill Cranes that live in the refuge.

Beautiful in the morning’s pink alpenglow.

Sunrise to the east was worth watching as well.

Home again, home again

Karl and I rolled in the driveway about 1:30 yesterday afternoon, making the trip almost exactly 30 hours in duration…we do nothing by halves :)!

A dusting of snow made it a pretty homecoming.

Wild Thing is snug in her spot, full of propane and fuel – I hope to get in another trip before too long – maybe further than 35 miles away!

Bob expressed both his displeasure at having been left and his happiness that we were home. He has never held a grudge for long but he does a great pout. Happiness won, however and the pout was short-lived to be replaced by much purring and winding around of legs – both mine and Karl’s, before retiring to keep an eye on the fire.

Home again, home again.

It’s the Jeep’s fault

Several weeks ago, I pulled up to a shop and noticed that one of the Jeep headlights was out. When I went to open things up and see what kind of bulb was needed, I discovered that the headlight had taken a rock. I don’t often go out in the dark, but there is a lot more dark lately and I finally made an appointment to get the headlight replaced.

That appointment was this morning.

Tomorrow morning I have an early morning appointment in Whitefish – so early that I would have to leave well before sunrise and cruise the 2 lane with commuters…and deer and the forecast is calling for snow.

In about 15 minutes this morning, I decided…

Karl and I are in Whitefish in the motorhome – Bob stayed home. The Jeep has new headlights. The drive to tomorrow’s appointment is about 2 minutes.

We have this RV park to ourselves.

The view is not bad and includes some Fall color.

This mini-trip gave me a chance to hook up my latest gadget – a WiFi router…so very cool! My Verizon aircard plugs into the Cradlepoint Router and I have Wi-Fi in the motorhome for both laptops and my wi-fi capable printer – all with one aircard. Cookin’ with gas!!!

Office and home on the road.

Rainy day mini-trip: It’s the Jeep’s fault.

Let there be light

Genesis 1:14
And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years…”

To celebrate the first day of summer, the summer solstice, the separation of seasons, the longest day of the year – this sunrise photo from Western Wings RV Park, Roberts, ID, taken on June 13, 2009.