We have been at Navajo Dam State Park here in NM for a little over a week now and done a lot of exploring of the campground area.
The spot we have chosen to park in was a bit scary getting into, but once in, plenty of space to move the motorhome around. It was nearly impossible to get it completely level though-so we tilt just an inch or two to one side and that’s with boards under the tires.
The only part of not being completely level is the stove and cooking. So Brian came up with a genius idea of putting a washer and screw to adjust the levelness and by gosh, it’s working great. I told him he needs to sell the idea to the RV industry-he just laughs at me.
Anyways, we are here and parked for a couple of weeks. Now it’s time to really enjoy the warm weather that has welcomed us here in Northern New Mexico. Temps are averaging in the mid 70’s and nights are cool down to the lower 40’s-but still tolerable for us. The sun is out bright and makes it great to enjoy the relaxation and exploring that we enjoy doing.
There really isn’t any trails to speak of around here, but plenty of ground to wonder around and explore. We do have to be a little more on the careful side than normal-we are in Mountain Lion territory and in fact we had one cross in front of our motorhome one morning.
There is a lake if we choose to take the canoe out. However upon removing the canoe off the car, we notice something just isn't right….When we hit some pretty strong wind gust and no place to get off the roadway, we apparently was an accident waiting to happen. As much pride as Brian takes to make sure all is safe and secure, nothing would have stopped this from happening-if we would push our luck.
What had happen, is that the stress of the canoe on the car with the wind speeds we were hitting, caused the bolts to actually bend! The straps that he used was so stressed that they actually started to cut from being so taunt against the carrier on the car.
With that bit of scare and really looking at how many times we have unloaded, to reload the canoe on the car and how many times we have actually had it in the water-we made the decision to sell it on Craig’s list. Brian jokingly states that the canoe has more miles on the car than in the water! Anyways, after posting it on Craig’s List-not even 24 hours later-it was sold to a young couple.
In some ways I’m kind of sad that it’s gone, but I also understand that it’s more of a hassle hauling it around and not using it-so better for someone who will enjoy it more than we did.
Well anyways with the continuous great weather, we take more hikes and more exploring. We have seen deer, squirrels and evidence of coyotes, elk and even prints from a mountain lion that appears was stalking possibly an elk.
But that too comes to almost a halt. Brian manage to really hurt (possibly broke) his one toe. He is able to walk, as long as we stay on solid ground. So the only exploring we have been able to do is on pavement and in the closed area of the campground.
His toe is getting better, but now the weather is changing on us. We have a major front pushing through that brings high winds and makes me nervous-thinking the motorhome will roll off the hillside-Brian keeps assuring me that it’s too heavy and even though it rocks around pretty hard-we are too heavy to roll over. With the winds comes much colder temps.
Here comes out the jogging outfits, heavy sweatshirts and even Leah’s winter coat that we thought we put away. Time to make some soups to help warm both the inside of the motorhome and our bodies. And then if that’s not enough-what was suppose to be rain-turns into snow! It was kind of pretty tot watch it fall.
As we get the wind and snow/rain, we pray that those in the Midwest and friends of ours are safe from damaging winds, hail and even tornadoes. I guess this is what Spring is about-unpredictability of the the weather.
Now this week, the weather has turned back to nice and loads of sunshine once again. Temps are to go back into the 70’s for daytime highs.
Our plans for this week is to go check out Aztec Ruins, explore more of the countryside-now that Brian feels he can walk better off roadways.
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