Getting ready to head for Albuquerque - Sept 25th thru 27th

On Sunday, our friend Margie was leaving Chula Vista, Ca, where she'd been camping with her camping club and driving up to meet us in Cottonwood. She didn't really want to drive all that way, but, I called and enticed her by mentioning that there was a winery right outside the campground and maybe we could go wine tasting the next day...she actually drove in as it was getting dark.

The next morning, we were waiting for the guy to come out and wash and hand wax the bus. He finally made it out there and spent about 5 hours on the bus. That meant we wouldn't be able to take Margie to Sedona, but, it did mean we could go wine tasting. So, we left Ron supervising the work and we went to have fun. At least she was able to spend one whole day relaxing, not having to worry about driving anywhere.

The next morning, we left the campground and headed towards Albuquerque. Right off the bat, I saw a frog or what looked like a frog on the side of one of the freeway bridges. It could have been an Indian symbol or something, but, looked like a frog to me.

 As we got closer to New Mexico, we started seeing some really neat rock formations and some of them looked like the ones we saw up in Mesa Verde, without the Indian ruins inside.

. We didn't want to drive to Albuquerque all in one day, that would have been too long for Margie, so we got as far east as Grants, where we stopped for the night at an Elks lodge. That is where the "fun" began...Ron looked at the amp meter and announced that the batteries were only reading 11.1 amps, this is AFTER we just drove 300 miles, which should have charged the batteries all the way up!!!

We had just finished working at a campground all summer and were hooked up to electric, we didn't know we had problems with the batteries! So, there we were worrying about what we're going to do next. Finally, we thought, we can't do anything tonight, we'll wait until tomorrow comes and see what we can do. We were only about 70 miles from Albuquerque and help if we needed it, so we started the generator, (thank goodness that still worked), so we could run the microwave to heat up our dinners, watched TV for a bit, then, went to bed early.