Catching Up on All That's Worth Knowing!

OK. So, maybe it isn't worth knowing. But we continued our camping times throughout this very hot summer.

A few weeks ago, Sweetie and I headed to Davis Mountains State Park to actually camp there. We have visited twice before but both times decided to stay at Indian Lodge instead of camping ( it was cold those two times )

Since we have this great new camper (Rita. Remember?), we decided to go whole hog and pick out a campsite with water, electric, and sewer hookup available. [NOTE: The next thing we might do is to actually put up the TV antenna one time. I know it works because the guy at the dealer turned the telly on and showed up some local channels. Heck, I don't even know if the DVD player works. We did turn the radio on one time and actually hooked Sweetie's iPhone thru bluetooth to listen to Sirius/XM once.]

Anyway, we spent a great couple of nights with the windows open. Oh, did I tell you it was about 99 during the day? Good thing we had a 13,500 BTU air conditioner in her! {Just an FYI: these types of A/C units can only cool down about 21 degrees from the ambient temperature. That is, if it is 90 outside, it can cool down to 69. If it's 105, then it only cools to about 84. And so on.}

Besides driving to Alpine, we visited a local desert botanical garden. That was truly a great time and I decided I want a Texas pistachio tree in my back yard.

A few weeks later, we headed into the heart of southeast New Mexico and Carlsbad. This time, we stayed at Brantley Lake State Park, just north of Carlsbad. Again, we splurged and rented a full hookup site. 

Now this is the first state park in New Mexico that we stayed the night. Let me start out by saying the electrical system was unstable and caused two outages during our time there. Both were easily fixed (just simple blown breakers) but that should not have happened.

Anyway, we visited White Sands National Monument, drove through the lovely mountain pass and Cloudcroft, visited the Living Desert Museum State Park, and basically relaxed in the 102 degree weather!

Now, we plan on one more camping trip to Caprock Canyons State Park before My Sweetie has  to do some traveling.