Santa Rosa-Days Inn

... boards).<br><br>Two more days before arriving in our second home. The door to the propane tank decided to stay closed. We will have to do without propane until we land. We made an executive decision not to try opening it in case it would not close... The temperature is now warmer and we have electric heater. Time for cold water treatments.

... of what I just found out are called "pump jacks". Those are those things that look like a nodding dog that pump oil out of the ground into holding tanks, see photo.<br><br>Also hundreds, maybe thousands, of wind farm power windmills dotted the horizons as we came south on 84 approaching I/S 20 near Sweetwater.<br><br>Tomorrow we have a bit over 200 miles to go into Austin to stay with Bob &amp; Mary Sue for a few days.<br><br><br><br><br>

... and pulled into a motel under their awning and had a free coffee and were going to call it a day. But the sun came out and with apologies to the motel people and thanks for the coffee we set off. sat the cruise on 75mph, the legal limit only to find the 18 wheelers were passing us, so pushed up to 80=about 130 k's. Soon dried off in the 85-90F heat and hoped to make Alberquerque, did that ...

We are on our way to Santa Rosa, NM for our next stop. Santa Rosa is located on historic Route 66. This will be the first time I have officially traveled along this route and I'm kind of excited about it.<br><br>I am hoping that the excitement of our Route 66 visit will overshadow the excitement of getting pulled over by the Texas State Police just over the border from Oklahoma in the Texas panhandle. I was one of many victims we ...

... the day. Then it was to the route 66 museum which was (wait can you guess?)yup it was closed. There was also really werid mountains in New Mexico. They all have flat tops like some one just cut the tops right off of them. So tonight I am in Santa Rosa New Mexico. Tomorrow I am off to Clines Corners which is supposed to have a great gift shop and then off to Albuquerque. Hopefully some things will be open. Until tomorrow.

... around the site, Mel headed back to our pitch. As she did so, she spotted the ranger's truck and sprinted after him. Thankfully he had the tool box in the back of the truck. He thought someone had left it behind and was going to take it to the park office a mile or so away. <br><br>After lunch, Neil spent the afternoon cleaning up the parts we had got yesterday while Mel caught up with the blog. Unfortunately, after ...

... to the first hamburger joint we came to, which happened to be a "Wendy's". Not bad, but we won't be rushing back for another one. <br><br>We arrived back at Santa Rosa Lake State Park around 7pm. After dinner and showers we settled in to watch the final episode of "24". Oh no! <br><br>Miles travelled: 150 <br><br>Total miles travelled: 7212 <br><br>Days on road: 59 <br><br>States visited: 11 <br><br>National Parks visited: 11

... selling authentic Navajo arts. We left there and headed South to Gallup, then East toward Albequerque, NM where we planned to stay the night. On the way, we saw Route 66 signs and stopped at the Route 66 Casino. Beth had never been in a casino before so we decided to gamble a little. It was great watching Beth try to ...

... doesn't really capture the danger) Historic old Route 66 runs parallel to I-40 in some parts of TX and NM. It is still there kids! Signs often use the old slogan in their ads, "Get your kicks on Route 66". We found drivng on Rte 66 to be like driving on our own private road. We could drive at our preferred 53 or so and were not being thrown around by either the gusts of wind or the trucker's vortexes. Nice for sure...but...66 jumps back and forth ...

... 4 hour hike to visit all of the bridges from below. On the way we explored more cliff dwellings and found lots of petroglyphs on the canyon walls and the arches themselves. It was still really windy that night and, after making dinner we were actually eating our pasta in the car. About 7:00 pm the ranger knocked on the window and advised us that they would be closing the campsite as they had found some dead mice in the campground and these ...