Neighbors!

Saturday we drove into Santa Fe looking around for campgrounds to move to. We decided that Santa Fe was more appealing than Albuquerque and had more historical aspects for us. And, we still could not get any closer to Albuquerque until the 10th (I fly to Phoenix on the 10th - we want to move before then and be settled before I fly out). We found a lovely campground to move to this coming Friday in Santa Fe -with great sunset views over the mountains. Feel much better that we will be near people and businesses. There is NOTHING here in Santa Rosa other than a campground for weary travelers and a couple of hotels and fast food. Zip zero nada nothing else. Makes sense that this campground fills up by dinner time - this is THE only campground for about 100 miles whereas some RVers prefer to overnight in a WalMart since it's free (there are none for 110 miles) and since there isn't WallyWorld - they are forced to come here and pay for the night. In the meantime we are having a great time watching people come in and set up, the show starts about 1pm every day. By 9am the overnighters are gone. Quiet for a couple of hours until the next show. There are some really strange characters. For example - there was (they just pulled out) a motor home that came in yesterday right beside us and we knick named them Big Chuck/Little John (2 TV personalities from Cleveland). Little John is a dwarf and this guy that drove the motor home - small/looked like him, and he backed out of the trailer which they were pulling, an ATV - similar to what Little John drives around in at the WoolyBear Festival in Vermilion. He pulled it out, revved it up, jumped on it - big grin - and drove all over the campground - pellmell, dust flying, scaring dogs and people. People just looked at him, shook their head, turned away. Then Big Chuck (his wife who is a big person) got on the thing after he came back, revved it up and obviously didn't know how to drive it, peeled around, yelling loudly at him if she had to keep the brake on all the time, and then he jumps on it and sits on the wheel well and off they go. Bunch of hill-billies!

One 5th wheel RV that came into the campground Dave says he remembers it - was on the side of the road when we were coming back Saturday from Santa Fe. He went over to talk with them and said that there is a problem with the truck, they limped into the campground and had an appointment this morning at a diesel mechanic's place. While talking with them they asked Dave what our plans were, where were we going for the winter. Dave mentioned the Big Bend National Park of Texas and they adamantly said - don't go there - there's trouble. I need to google this information to verify what ever it is they are talking about then make decisions.

We just plan to sit out the next couple of days, catching up on chores and I plan on doing some quilting. We look forward to moving to Santa Fe - seems there is so much to see and do there but traveling 110 miles one way just doesn't make a fun day - too much time sitting in the car.