We packed up and left Santa Fe by 9:20am yesterday and the temp was a whopping 37! Brrr. Dave's fingers almost got frost bit. Drove the 280 miles south on Interstate 25 - a lovely drive but we decided we didn't want to drive that road again. Road surface was great, traffic very light, but the scenery was kinda boring. A set of mountain ranges on one side for awhile, desert conditions, then that mountain range went away and the next set of mountains appeared on our other side. We followed the Rio Grande again all the way down, crossed it a couple of times. I am still amazed that this river flows all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico and for the most part -is a shallow wide river, you could wade across it. Visible were many flash flood washouts.
We made a quick stop in Truth or Consequences - New Mexicans call it T or C - (the town was renamed to this from Hot Springs because a game show host said that he would host the show from the first town that renamed itself after the show). This town is quite small and it is right near the huge Elephant Butte State Park which is New Mexico's largest - 200 miles of shoreline. You can see the lake from I25 but from what we saw was quite muddy and very low. New Mexico is experiencing a drought and we saw it via the Rio Grande and also some of the dams and reservoirs we toured while in Santa Fe.
Got to this campground, Sunny Acres, just west of the town and registered and pulled up to the site to see how we would back in. And got into trouble. Our emergency brake system for the trailer locked up and it caused the tires to freeze. Could not budge the thing at all. Dave ended up cutting the wires just to get us in the sight. Can you imagine if this would have happened while on the road going 60 miles an hour? We were lucky we were in a safe place and could still maneuver the rig into the spot. We have since put a claim into our Jayco dealer and on Monday we will limp into the dealer about 1 1/2 miles away (thankfully that close). The good news is that it was 76 when we got here at 2:30pm. I saw where Santa Fe had a temp of 18 last night - are we lucky, or what? Our plans are to get this rig fixed and stay until the beginning of December, then we will move to Picacho Peak north of Tucson and south of Casa Grande for about a month, or two?
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