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November 1, 2009, a Sunday
Sugarite Canyon State Park (Lake Alice) to Storrie Lake State Park, New Mexico, USA
— Kept heading south
We awoke around our normal time, but it was an hour earlier due to the end of Daylight Saving Time. J made breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, and OJ, and I had my LavAzza coffee and J had her Lucile's tea. I did some computer work while the hot water heater was heating the water, then showered. I went back to doing computer work. We prepped the RV to move, and J left at 11:10 in the Jeep to go to the Visitor Center to buy an annual parks pass. I left shortly thereafter in the RV and went to the dump station in the campground. I finished dumping at 11:34, then went to the Visitor Center where we hooked up the Jeep to tow. J wasn't able to buy an annual pass because the Visitor Center was closed. We left at 11:45.
There was a group of wild turkeys by the road near the border of the park. We got on I-25 and headed south. I listened to an episode of Car Talk. We turned on the AC around 1:15 because it was getting very warm in the cab. The sun was bright and shining through the windshield, plus the fresh-air intake for the cab in the E-450 chassis must be strategically located behind the exhaust manifold because the fresh air is always pre-heated for us. :(
We reached Storrie Lake State Park around 2:00. It was J's first time to the park, but I had been there twice before and wasn't too impressed. We drove around looking for a good site, and J thought the campground was dumpy too. We occupied Site 35N overlooking the lake. There was only a slow National Access signal on our Verizon USB sticks, so internet access wasn't too good. I loaded up the RV fresh water tank using a nearby faucet, then tilted half of our solar-electric panels. I mounted the special RV levels in the cab. We had been carrying the stick-on levels around since we got the RV, and I had finally gotten tired of running to the back of the RV to check the bubble level there every time we leveled the RV at a new campsite. Then I did some more computer work.
We had dinner of J's steak fajitas and fresh guacamole, and it was very tasty.
After doing the dishes, I finally went online and checked my email. The buyer of my Canon EOS 1Ds Mk II finally paid me yesterday. (There was no Verizon signal at Sugarite Canyon State Park, and I hadn't gone online as we were driving south yesterday either.) I did more computer work before going to bed.
There was a group of wild turkeys by the road near the border of the park. We got on I-25 and headed south. I listened to an episode of Car Talk. We turned on the AC around 1:15 because it was getting very warm in the cab. The sun was bright and shining through the windshield, plus the fresh-air intake for the cab in the E-450 chassis must be strategically located behind the exhaust manifold because the fresh air is always pre-heated for us. :(
We reached Storrie Lake State Park around 2:00. It was J's first time to the park, but I had been there twice before and wasn't too impressed. We drove around looking for a good site, and J thought the campground was dumpy too. We occupied Site 35N overlooking the lake. There was only a slow National Access signal on our Verizon USB sticks, so internet access wasn't too good. I loaded up the RV fresh water tank using a nearby faucet, then tilted half of our solar-electric panels. I mounted the special RV levels in the cab. We had been carrying the stick-on levels around since we got the RV, and I had finally gotten tired of running to the back of the RV to check the bubble level there every time we leveled the RV at a new campsite. Then I did some more computer work.
We had dinner of J's steak fajitas and fresh guacamole, and it was very tasty.
After doing the dishes, I finally went online and checked my email. The buyer of my Canon EOS 1Ds Mk II finally paid me yesterday. (There was no Verizon signal at Sugarite Canyon State Park, and I hadn't gone online as we were driving south yesterday either.) I did more computer work before going to bed.