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I'm still trying to figure this out...bear with me!

Eight Days Behind Us !!

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Yea, yikes, yahoo!! Peter and I are definitely "on the road". This is some life, very different from the usual household we left behind! We've just completed 8 days and have met loads of interesting people, made our one mistake a day (yesterday's was a $195 lesson....our large slide-out would not come in when we were ready to leave so we called a mobile RV repair person who told us these things are supposed to be siliconed, etc. on their tracks every few weeks......so what do we know? Anyway, all is well and we left CO Springs for Cheyenne yesterday where we are now....in a great funky RV park....no frills but sort of out in the country, with full hook-ups which, for you uninformed, means water, sewer and 50 amp electricity on site. I've included, hopefully, some pix of us at the top of Pike's Peak (14,110 ft...yikes!) where we drove the jeep (not the RV!) and had their world-famous donuts and hot chocolate..it even snowed a bit! We also visited the AF Academy...very awesome! Our first nite stop was in Truth or Consequences, NM....at one tim named Hot Springs but changed the name when Ralph Edwards of the TV show offered any town that would change it's name to T or C a visit and regalia parade, etc. once a year...which he did! We then spent 2 days in Santa Fe, where we had a visit with Peter's cousin, Howard, and then up to Taos Pueblo.....oh so interesting and very beautiful country.
Well everybody, more later as we progress! Peter and I still love each other, too!

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New Mexico, we love you!

Due to Peter's emergency gall bladder removal, we left on May 30th and went south to meet our group in the mountains at Ruidoso. It was 390 miles from our home in Tucson and we drove it all in one day.......the last 1/4 with no dashboard AC or fans! So, we turned on the generator and ran the coach AC.....do we know what we're doing, or not (see below!)? Anyway, on Monday we called the mfg. (Tiffin) who directed us to a very small black button on one of several solenoids to reset it. We're not sure who would instinctively know this but we will......next time. We went to the quarter horse races at Ruidoso....won $37 (after spending $50 but you don't think of that when you are collecting at the window!). We spent another day driving thru the Honda Valley to Lincoln, home of William Bonnen "Billy the Kid" and the 1868 "War of Lincoln" between two merchants. The town is still intact and lived in.....very fun. The country up there is beautiful so do go see it all someday. From there we caravaned to Carlsbad....170 miles of not much except I left the emergency brake on in the Jeep (see above!)....miraculously, no harm done! We saw the bat ascension at the Caverns then spent the next day in the Caverns, walking about 4 miles total. It is very cool inside the Caverns and awesomely huge with a variety of formations at every turn. Another must-see in one's lifetime. We then spent 3 nites in Las Cruces after a very hairy drive. Peter did a fabulous job negotiating the mountain grades and the 30 mph winds. We stayed on one more night after the others had left so we could see White Sands Natl. Park and the missile range. All these rockets, Nikes, 1st, 2nd, 3rd stage stuff, et. all over to look at! We leave 6/18 for our big 4 month trip. We will have my computer on that one and will be posting. Till then.......
Best from Sybil and Peter