To New Mexico

We did 238 miles yesterday and both agree that’s too much unless you get on the road and get it done early.

Brilliant blue sky this morning and it’s already hot.  Have our cups of tea outside around our picnic table and plan our day.  We could stay here another day…. but there are bitey flies and we are too far from the water to see the action, there’s hardly any grass and Kim has a bee in his bonnet about getting closer to Texas.  So we look up Allstays to find a place a couple of hundred miles away in New Mexico.  There aren’t so many options that are around water and that aren’t RV Parks, I guess we are not in vacation land.  We use the showers here, there’s hardly anybody around so they haven’t been used yet today.  I stay under mine until I get bored, quite a luxury when you live in a motor home with limited tank capacity.

Pueblo State Park CO

We are on the road by 10.15 and head south on the I25. First stop is at Trinidad, just north of the state line for Kim to have his fix of Maccas – he says he is suffering from withdrawals!  There is a State Park here on a lake, but we have some more miles in us so carry on.

There is a bit of a climb as we leave Colorado into New Mexico.  We haven’t seen many trees for the last couple of days, but there are some as we climb.  Once down into the flat land of NM there are no trees again.

New Mexico

Clayton Lake State Park is 12 miles off the highway and we still haven’t seen many trees so wonder what the park might be like, but we are committed now.  We come across the brow of a hill and see the lake and some trees, not many though.  And there is grass, the Ranger is mowing it.  There is only one electrical site available, it is a first come site which can’t be reserved so we park there, hook up the power and water, pop the sides out and we are home for the next couple of days.  We drove 209 miles today.

Kim goes for an explore and sees deer and rabbits, I see a strange long legged, fast walking bird, with a topknot and long tail and looks like an oversized road runner.  There are a few comings and goings, another rig comes in to take up his reserved site, two cars with boats on trailers come up from the launch ramp.  We have neighbours on our right side, but they are not home and no one on our left.  The water is flat calm.  There is a track labelled “Dinasaur Track”, will check that out tomorrow before it gets too hot.

Deer at Clayton Lake NM

Clayton Lake NM

Once it gets dark we settle down and watch a movie, no TV here, nor cellphone reception.  The wind comes up, quite strongly which is strange, shouldn’t it die down at night?  We put the tie downs on the slide awnings to stop them flapping and bring the big slide in before we go to bed.  The coach is rocking around a bit.