Today was a travel day. We put all our stuff away in the trailer, hooked up and reluctantly departed from Santa Fe. We jumped onto I-25 southbound and headed toward Albuquerque. Traffic wasn’t too bad in Albuquerque and we passed right through and continued south on I-25.
We mostly passed through arid sage scrub land but always just to our left was the Rio Grande creeping along toward El Paso and, ultimately, the Gulf of Mexico. About a half hour south of Albuquerque we started getting warm in the cab and decided to turn on the air conditioning. Unfortunately for us, the mechanics in Santa Fe apparently fouled up when dealing with the AC during the engine replacement and it now doesn’t work. I tried to call the service manager at Capitol Ford in Santa Fe to see if he could work something out with Kearney Ford in San Diego so I could go there when I arrive in Southern California but, despite two attempts to contact him, he did not call back.