On to Ruidoso

We left Pecos this morning, heading northwest to Ruidoso, New Mexico. Ruidoso used to be the host area for a “fall colors” motorcycle rally called Aspencade. I have no idea if they still have that rally, but this would be a great place to cruise on motorcycles. It’s in the mountains; lots of twisty roads.

Unlike most of the way here... which was straight roads, flat terrain, and nothing but scrub brush and some oil wells as far as you could see. Just to make it interesting, Mother Nature tossed some strong winds our way, mostly in the form of a headwind.

We drove through Carlsbad, it’s claim to fame is the nearby Carlsbad Caverns, a huge cave. We passed a couple RV parks out in the middle of nowhere, then came to the town of Artesian... I thought that might mean that they have good water wells... now I’m beginning to believe it is an old Indian term meaning: blowing dust. From there, we passed by the town of Roswell, New Mexico; known for the place space aliens crashed in the 1950s. We didn’t see any signs of aliens, but that may be because we were wearing our tin foil alien-repelling hats.

After Roswell, we started climbing into the mountains... up to about 6,000 feet. We are down for a couple nights at Deer Crossing RV Park. It’s about 15 miles out of Ruidoso; we have no phone, no TV, and no internet. But, the park is decent... no overhanging trees, adults only, and no smoking anywhere, and that includes campfires.

We fed Izzy, then headed into Ruidoso. It is an interesting touristy town in the mountains; reminds me a lot of Estes Park, Colorado, or Eureka Springs, Arkansas. We stopped for lunch, then drove around to get a feel for the area. After a stop at the store, we came back to the coach. The RV park is supposed to have wifi... nope. I think we can declare this officially out in the boonies.

We decided to reconnect our Dish Network. I set up our VuQube and Joan called Dish. Of course, there is no one there who actually speaks decent English. She spent the better part of an hour fussing with someone on the other end and finally got transferred to a "supervisor" who spoke English. Situation taken care of in a couple minutes.

With a very weak phone signal, we were able to hook up long enough to post this. That's it for now.