Lucille's Road Trip - Day 2 (3/28/2014) Eager AZ to Fort Sumner, NM

Friday.  We still aren't getting very early starts, but we were fed and fueled and on the road by 10:25.  By that time, it was 61 degrees, clear, blue skies, no wind initially but we picked up wind later int he day.  Joe got his mother out of the RV this morning and she had a brief walk before she took her co-pilot position with her moose. 

We crossed into New Mexico pretty quickly and headed across the vastness of New Mexico.  We stopped in Socorro for lunch, at Denny's of all places because that's the only place we could find to park.  By the time we drove around, and turned around, got parked and ate, almost 2 hours had  gone by.  But Joe was in the driving zone today, so he just kept at it.  We made it all the way to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, 344 miles.  It was 6:40 by the time we stopped (we had lost an hour in time zones today)..  We stayed at Valley View RV Park, a little campground right on U.S. 60, got hooked up to electricity, then drove across the road to Fred's Restaurant for dinner. 

It was a nice evening, we were at an elevation of 4017.  We passed miles and miles of desert today, with just scrub brush.  Joe spotted a dead antelope along the side of the road, and shortly after that we saw a small herd of about a dozen pronghorn.  This is pretty desolate country, and Lucille keeps watching for crops in the fields.  We did finally begin to see some cattle, but the only green we saw was around Socorro where the Rio Grande River crosses.  We also crossed the Pecos River today, and it had some water running in it.

I'm not in a very good picture-taking position this trip, but so far there hasn't been too much to see.  We did spot some smoke today just before we turned off of I-25, but we didn't hear what was burning.

We didn't watch much TV tonight, by the time we got back from dinner we were all tired enough to call it a day.  We fixed the dinette into a bed for Lucille and hope tonight goes better than last night.  We can tell her knees get weak from sitting all day, so we probably need to try to do a little more walking during the course of the day.  This is a learning experience for all of us, but we are well on our way.  We've come 554 miles in 2 days so Indiana better be finding SPRING!!!