On the Road Again

After cleaning up our storage units and making sure everything was dry and back where it belonged we left the fog and cold Seattle weather and flew back to Albuquerque. Our friend, Bill, picked us up at the airport and after picking up his wife Dottie, we all went out for a great Mexican dinner. We spent the night with them at their house in Albuquerque. We were so surprised when we opened the van to find that the sun shinning in through the window had melted the trim on the refrigerator door as well as warping it a bit. The front of the frig is black plastic and it must have gotten to hot. Hard to believe! On Thurs. we took the van a few blocks from Bill's house and had four new tires put on, the power steering belt tightened, and an oil change. The van is very happy now. We decided to skip Santa Fe since we have no place to put the beautiful artwork we would have found in the galleries there and headed south to Roswell stopping at Bottomless Lake Campground. It was a nice stop.
Friday we drove from Roswell to the Carlsbad Caverns. They were just amazing. I took some pictures (you can see in the next blog. Click on them to make bigger) but you can't capture the beauty and size of it even if you had the best camera. It was one of the most amazing places I have seen. We took a bit of a detour and drove west instead of south or east so we could go through the Guadalupe National Park. That was also beautiful although not great camping. We are spending the night in El Paso and then will try to drive to San Antonio (at least 9 hours).