2014-04-13
Sunday the 13th we departed Alamogordo
for a short trip up to Albuquerque.
The 13th is also our first wedding anniversary and we feel it’s appropriate
that we‘re traveling because we enjoy it so much. Our route took us through an
interesting geographic formation. State road 380 passes through a 5000 year old
lava flow called Valley
of Fires. It is
four to six miles wide, 160 feet thick and covers 125 square miles. Our route
also took us within twenty miles of the Trinity Site, where the world’s first
nuclear explosion was detonated. it is closed to the public all but one day per
year.
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| Valley of Fires |
Our destination in Albuquerque is the
Enchanted Trail RV Park. It sits on a short section of what was Route 66 and is
now a local access road along I-40. The Adobe office building dates to the 40’s
and was a trading post. In 1950 the property was converted into a campground.
The neatest thing about the campground is their exhibit of restored antique
travel trailers.
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| Enchanted Trails RV Park |
A wind storm rose up
out of the west and blew 25-30 mph hour winds with gusts to 55 mph for 18 hours
so we didn’t do much here. The blowing dust blocked out the sky and made going
outside an unpleasant experience. I did manage to get the dogs outside a couple
times when the winds slowed a little.
Our 2nd day
in town the storm over, we went on a shopping expedition. We had researched
online for stores that carried some specific items we needed. We drove a large
loop around the city picking up items like raw cashews, Eagle Pack Dog food,
and natural ingredient mouth wash. Not changing a dogs diet is something I’m
sure you all understand. The other strange items are my doing, but I’m a senior
citizen, I’m allowed to have strange quirks.
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| No we didn't see this, The balloon fest is in October |
Costs: Enchanted
Trails Campground is affiliated with a discount program called Coast to Coast that
we belong to so we paid $16. per night to stay here. Fuel in this part of the
country is advertised at $3.30 to $3.50 but that a bit deceiving. The low
advertised price is for 85 or 86 octane. The motorhome engine works to hard to
use less than its recommended 87 octane. We’ve been paying $3.59 to $3.69 for
88-91 octane.
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