We are sitting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and have been doing so for several days now. As you may remember we were trying to get over the mountains before it got cold enough to freeze our water lines. Dave watched the weather forecasts very carefully to help us determine what the temperatures were doing. Unfortunately, when the temperatures gave us a potential break, the winds started. I don’t know if any of you have ever driven a motorhome in 35 miles an hour wind gusts. We try very hard not to do so. Blowing off the road is not on our list of things we want to do.
So we are still sitting in Albuquerque. And the temperature here dropped to 19 degrees last night. And our water lines are fine. It turns out our furnace blows into the water pump area and the rest of the lines are inside the coach. The indoor/outdoor thermometer Dave put in the pump area only got down into the 60s last night.
So we’ve had a few days off. Or a few off days. I’m not sure.
Here’s some of the things we’ve done with those days:
We cleaned house, inside and out.
We did the monthly maintenance of the RV.
We reset our clocks and watches–except for my pocket watch; we haven’t found it yet.
We paid bills and filed papers.
We backed up the computers.
We checked on my Segway and ordered a new seat for it.
We ordered a bunch of freeze-dried foods.
We caught up with our on-line discussion groups.
Dave did some more fine tuning of the Escapees Class of ’08 map.
And, of course, I did more trip research.
So now we can’t leave because the Segway seat is coming here Friday. The freeze-dried food will be waiting for us at an REI in California.
So still we sit. Which is actually a nice thing to do every now and then.
TTYL,
Linda