On the Move

So we waited one whole day for a RV service guy to show up and when he didn’t show up or call, we tried again.  This time Joshua did show up, crawled under the rig, removed some pieces, ordered parts from Dallas and returned 2 days later and put some pieces back in all in the coldest 3 days of the year.  Viola – it worked.  We were good to go.

In the meantime we decided to go see some Christmas lights in Carlsbad.  In most cities you drive around in your warm car and gawk.  Not here.  In Carlsbad they do Christmas on the Pecos River.  You wait until dark and get onto a pontoon boat with a bunch of other people and ride 2 miles downriver and back looking at displays done by businesses and homes along the river.  It was our last night in town and it just happened to be the coldest night of the year.  Yes, 31 desert-freezing degrees and we were on a boat on the river.  

I don't know what Intrepid Potash is but they had a nice display

One lovely home on the Pecos River

We survived and even enjoyed getting a taste of yet another Christmas tradition in yet another town.  But, as I said to the Navigator, we wouldn’t even do this in Wisconsin!

From Carlsbad we drove to Las Cruces, NM, which requires going to El Paso, TX and then back up to New Mexico.  It’s a lovely drive over the Guadalupe Mountains and we had plenty of time to enjoy the view as low clouds and hoar frost at high elevations made the driving slow and interesting. 

The road ahead in the Guadalupe Mountains

Beautiful but scary hoarfrost

In Las Cruces we enjoyed wine tasting, especially at Rio Grande Winery.  Every once in a while we luck into a wine tasting where the owner/winemaker is behind the counter and we get treated to a discussion with the expert and a specially curated tasting.  This was one of the best we ever had and we left with half a case of wine, which is now stored under the bed since the wine case in the storage bay is also full of wine.  The challenge begins – can we drink enough to stay ahead of our collecting and storage limitations.

From Las Cruces we moved to our current location is Huachucha City, AZ, chosen for its proximity to Tombstone, Bisbee and other AZ attractions.  We’ll have 4 nights here and then on to Tucson.  

All photo credits to the Navigator.