Today's Limited Position Tracking
So we are in process of taking a 2 or 3 week RV trip, back east to see relatives, drop Jacque off in Danville Illinois to visit her "Mom" (Mom Carol, Jacque's Dad's second wife, who is adopted totally into the fam), and thence I go on to Dayton OH to attend the annual world's largest hamfest at the Dayton Hamvention .
We left earlier than needed, on purpose, to try to take it slow, on secondary roads, and stop and poke around different places.
Our first stop was Fort Sumner NM, where my folks (Jim and Pearl) used to live, and where Dad died in 1988, buried not far from his birthplace near House NM. I just wanted to drive by their old house, deeply damaged after Mom sold it, by fire, but it just ain't there any more. The lot has been bulldozed, all old structures vanished, and a new metal shop building now sits where the old house once was.
Kinda weird and disorienting, sort of like the sensation of visiting 4214-A Arizona Street in Los Alamos NM, which also no longer exists... since the place ws burned and vaporized in the 2000 Los Alamos Fire which wiped out 25% or more of the townsite.
Jacque put her foot down and wanted to stop and spend the night instead of moving on, so we drove a few blocks east on Route 60 and stopped at a self service RV parking area which cost us $20 for full hookups, including cable TV that didn't work. Everything else did:
Valley View RV Park
Next morning, Saturday, this morning, we decided to ride our bikes down to the Ft. Sumner state park where Billy the Kid is buried. The map showed it only about 6 miles away. What a quiet unpopulated road to ride and what a beautiful day to ride. Just perfect temperature, just enough clouds to keep us from getting too hot, maybe 4 cars passed us during the entire trip to and from...
and then when we got back to the RV Jacque couldn't find her wallet.
Away she rode again to see if she could retrace her ride and find it, and she Did. Heavenly Father does indeed hear and answer prayers.
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 12.71
Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed
5.8 MPH 6.9 MPH 15.7 MPH
Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time
2 hours 10 mins 1 hour 50 mins 21 minutes
Bummer - I was thinking about how cool that place was with the downstairs root cellar and the underground trash burning pit. Nice place in a small town.
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