Itinerant RVers traveling the Turquoise and Chisholm Trails
Dates:
August 16, 2019 to
September 3, 2019
Mileage:
5,669
Location:
Enchanted Acres and Trading Post
Albuquerque, NM
I promised ElizaBeth that Albuquerque would be cooler than Las Cruces, and if I was correct in the least, it was only a few slight degrees less. The weather was hot. We planned on combining business and pleasure, as I needed to visit some schools as part of the report I’m writing for the NM Higher Education Department.
I have worked in facilities management for higher education my entire life. In fact, my father was the Director of Physical Plant at Texas Christian University for 17 years and I grew up in a house where the trials and tribulations of a university chief facilities officer were discussed nightly.
I was born in 1954, and for those who remember their history, the “baby boomers” as we were nick-named constituted a very large student population. Indeed, as we progressed from kindergarten to college, we were often housed in temporary buildings in the parking lot all the way through school. Right behind us, however, there was a very large decrease in this demographic, and many of the colleges converted older dormitories to offices. Interestingly, the staff grew while the population was declining, a trend that never really reversed.
We’re always up for a good, out-of-the-way museum. As usual, there was a docent who was very knowledgeable.
Dates:
July 31, 2019 to August 15, 2019
Mileage:
5,457
Location:
Sunny Acres RV
Las Cruces, NM
Affordable RV and Marine was great as always, John even drove the Sunstar over to Sunny Acres RV Park so the coach would cool down before I got back and ElizaBeth could move out of the hotel.
Dates:
July 26, 2019 to July 31, 2019
Mileage:
5,454
Location:
Marriott Courtyard at NMSU
Las Cruces, NM
It was time for service to the RV and Dave Riker and I had an engagement for FM EXCEL in Dayton OH, so we decided that ElizaBeth would check-in at a hotel, the coach would head to John and Tom at Affordable RV and Marine, and Sugar, Pepper, and Izzy would enroll at Camp Calista. Since the ribbon-cutting for the hotel on the NMSU campus took place just two weeks before, we decided that the Marriott Courtyard would be good to try.
Dates:
July 25, 2019 to July 26, 2019
Mileage:
5,270
Location:
Red Barn RV
Roswell, NM
We found a great park, lots of aliens, and get to color in a large NM county (Chaves) because we hadn’t slept in it before.
