We had a full agenda of loafing proposed for today and we followed it closely. We started our fooling around by making reservations for the segment of our trip between Albuquerque and Sedona which will commence on 10/8/15. We will be staying near Petrified Forest for a couple of days followed by a couple more days at Meteor Crater before heading into the Flagstaff area for about 10 days.
Forethought completed for the next three weeks, we drove down into Albuquerque to a Costco store and we only got lost once. A hundred and a half dollars later, we departed and were free of our pressing commitments for the duration.
Peggy had been looking out the Barbarian’s windows for a few days and had spotted some roads she wanted to try so, after cramming our Costco purchases into the fridge, we departed on a journey of exploration in the ‘hood around our camp at Hidden Valley RV Mountain Resort.
Folks may be a bit strange here because during our journey we spotted a residence with an Xmas tree in the yard made entirely of antlers, a really big chrome agave plant, one place where the owner had his own private observatory and another place where we photographed the owner’s ample collection of old, dead Pontiac Grand Prix automobiles parked alongside his collection of old, dead International, Ford and Chevy trucks. There were also some really nice homes with spectacular views looking west down the pass to Albuquerque.
Our imaginations ran out of steam and we ran out of daylight so we headed back to our RV park and arrived just in time to see another magnificent sunset. The sunsets here are very colorful and we end up spending quite a bit of time standing in our driveway looking west watching the sky do it’s thing. It is wonderful having enough time to just watch nature go by. I think we will continue this unless we get caught.