Travel for 2018


Due to high winds we stayed an extra day. To keep us occupied we took a trip down memory lane and drove down to Columbus, NM. This a where we went to our very first RV rally, back in the 90s. We primarily went to the rally to look at the big trucks as were were wannabees. Everyone offered asked if we wanted to drive

The town was so welcoming. The population was probably a thousand and everyone was welcoming. There were 3 restaurants in town and we all made sure we ate at each one. The oddest event was that the town had a dinner theater(of sorts). We all went to the theater and the cast served us dinner and then performed for us. We all had our trucks on the street and the locals were walking  up and down looking at the trucks. When we let the theater we all blew our air horns.

As part of the rally we had a truck parade. We probably had around 40 trucks, we all lined up in the state park and the lone policeman in town took care of the intersections. The  mayor was driving the first truck. It was like 4th of July in town, everyone was out looking at the parade and all the kids were in the  playground watching us go by.

The parade became a tradition at every truck rally we went to after that. Just a neat way to thank the town.

The town has grown some now, a few more houses, a few more restaurants and businesses. The dinner theater was still there as were the 3 restaurants we ate at.

Just one of our very good memories.

We have been having problems with one or our slideouts as it is stuck in. When we try to slide it out only one side goes out. I posted the problem on a couple of sites and tried various solutions but none worked. As we were trying one solution today we noticed that the motor and the gear box had separated. At least we know what is wrong and an idea of how to  fix it but first we think need a new motor. I sent notes out to the mfg. of the Mh and the mfg. of the slideout to find out which motor we need.

On our way back to town we stopped to  investigate Spring Canyon and Rock Hound State Parks. Drive became interesting when we say a sign for a 17% hill and a blind curve at the top. Though the sign said 2 miles, it was only maybe 1/3 mile of 17% grade.

What goes up must go down!!!!

Picnic ramada at Sprin Canyon SP

Park was on the side of a mountain, great views

The next challenge of the day was our printer. Totally stopped working, blobs of ink were coming out. I cleaned the cartridges, didn't help. Googled the problem and decided I needed to clean the print heads, if this didn't work, a new printer. Nothing to lose. I spent an hour or so cleaning the print heads, ended up with black fingers(I didn't have gloves), let everything dry and printed a test page. It worked. No need to buy a new printer.............

Overall this was a very good day. Tomorrow we leave for our next stop.

I thought it was a good day a bit too early. Since I had a Windows update yesterday some of my software has been acting funny. Now the problem has hit my picture software. I will need to update the software tomorrow if I have internet(I doubt it).