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Albuquerque

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We stopped at Albuquerque to take care of some of those ‘household’ things.  When you are traveling fulltime it is different than just taking a weekend jaunt or a 2-week trip and then home.  This is our home.  We don’t have the luxury of taking enough clothes, or food, to last the trip.  We have to do laundry about every 8-9 days before dipping into the ’emergency’ underwear supply!  We need groceries sometimes more frequently than that.  We also like to get to civilization every now and then to get caught up on our TV shows (however the satellite has really helped with that), resupply from a Costco and/or Trader Joe’s, and maybe catch a movie or two.  Albuquerque served this up for us.

We stayed at the American RV ‘Resort’ at the west end of town off of I10.  This is across the highway where, in 2009, we met the other Airstreamers to caravan into the Balloon Fiesta.  It was a nice park, it had gates for security and we were right behind the office which blocked most of the freeway noise.

That is a rock embedded in the tree!

We did take a few hikes at the Petroglyph National Monument that is right next to town:

Albuquerque turned out to be a good stop.  The area surrounding the city is beautiful, but watching the news it suffers from my large city maladies.

Time to head north a bit.

Back to Eureka

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We were able to spend a couple of weeks visiting our son at his house but Roxie’s cousin (Jim) ended up dying and we had to head back to Eureka for the funeral.  We were also going to give Jim’s daughter, Angelique, support through this time and assist her in cleaning out a house that has accumulated around 40 years of ‘stuff’.  We again stopped at the Sonoma County RV Fairgrounds park for the night.

We made it to Jim’s house around 5 pm and had to negotiate a difficult back in off the road through a narrowish opening.  With assistance, it was relatively easy and we parked on the front lawn of the house.  We have 15amp power, water and a sewer hookup with the septic cleanout.  I have also hooked up cable TV there.  We are planning on staying for almost a month to help out.

Here is a picture of Roxie, Jim’s daughter Angelique and Jim’s other daughter Tami:

As I write this we have completed 5 days of cleaning and took 2 runs to the dump and disposed of 2 tons!  I know we have more to go.

We are unsure where we might be going after here, the weather has been good so far and that will dictate our future plans.