On the Road

We left Kerrville, Texas last Tuesday, August 20^th and headed west on I-10 to Fort Stockton for an overnight stay at Hilltop RV Park. Fort Stockton has really grown the past several years with all the oil drilling in the nearby Permian Basis.

On Wednesday we continued driving along I-10 about 280-miles through Van Horn and El Paso to Las Cruces, New Mexico for an overnight stay. We enjoyed dinner at La Posta de Mesilla which is celebrating its 80^th anniversary.

Last Thursday, we drove north on I-25 to Albuquerque, New Mexico where we spent three nights at the Kirtland AFB family campground. At $18/night you can’t beat the price for a full hookup campsite.  

We enjoyed dinner Thursday night at our friend’s Kris and Jan’s house in Albuquerque. We met Kris and Jan 10-years ago out at Lake Powell in Page, Arizona. We had our Lance truck camper then and Kris and Jan also had a Lance truck camper. Since meeting them, we’ve spent two-weeks every September with them and my sister Marcia and brother-in-law Mike at Lake Powell. 

The highlight of our stay in Albuquerque was taking the New Mexico Rail Runner Express train with Kris and Jan from Albuquerque up to Santa Fe last Friday. It was our first trip on the Rail Runner and we were impressed. It only cost us $7 per person round-trip for the hour and a half train ride. We arrived at the train depot in south Santa Fe and had lunch at a nearby restaurant.

We later took a free shuttle bus to the Plaza area of Santa Fe where we visited the New Mexico Museum of Art. We especially enjoyed the special exhibit on Lake Powell.

We drove to Raton, New Mexico yesterday for an overnight stay and on to Fountain, Colorado today for another overnight stay. We take our “house” to the nearby Transwest Freightliner dealer early tomorrow morning for its annual chassis servicing.

Steve & Julie Cornelius