Snow And Wind

It rained last night off and on. Some light, some heavy. Finally a thunderclap woke me around 7:30. I had been wondering when that would happen. So I got up and rattled around for a while inside, but then I couldn’t stand it…all this free water and DD so dirty. It was 42° when I got up, so I put on a plastic poncho and went outside, got my long-handled brush, and started moving the dirt around. With a couple of buckets catching the water runoff I got most of my mission accomplished, but by the time I was through, it was snowing! And by the time I go back inside, it was coming down heavily! I check the outside temperature. Hmmmm, 36° now! Oh well. It’s not a perfect wash job, but she looks a lot cleaner than she did before.

An hour or two later, the sun comes out and melts it all off. We hit the road and Diane puts in a lot of miles. We stop at a Camping World store on the west side of Albuquerque and then we stop for gas another couple of miles down the road. We opt to eat “lunch” as we drive through Albuquerque on I-40…just simple finger foods, which I fetch from the kitchen.

We are trying for Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, in Texas, but in the middle afternoon I finally get around to checking into the camping situation there. Yikes, they have a dozen or so camping area, but not a single hookup among them. It seems like you can just sort of park wherever you want within certain areas and camp for free—a lot like we did in Kaibab National Forest. That’s okay, but our estimate for the NRA is looking pretty late. I check out state parks again and we decide to go to Ute Lake State Park, still in New Mexico and a couple of hours short of Lake Meredith.

The temperature is pleasant and we have a nice level pull-through site with water and electricity at their “Windy Point” campground. That’s an understatement; we have come on the windiest day of the year!