New Mexico and other stories

I want to start this blog by giving a special thank you to Fort Stockton RV Park.  We were traveling Christmas day and they gave us a free nights stay.  I didn't get any pictures of the park because it was really cold out.

Now for my next RV story!
We pulled into Brantley Lake State Park in New Mexico.  This park is about 17 miles from Carlsbad and 8 miles off the main road and it is worth every mile. 
The fun began AFTER we were settled in.  We were hooked up to 30 amp. which is no big deal except we kept popping the breaker.  By the time the sun went down we figured out that it was a breaker problem and not us having to many things on. 
At this point it is not only dark but COLD! We walked over to the campground hosts trailer and told him our problem.  He said NO PROBLEM just move to one of the first come first served sights that has 50 amp.  He was kind enough to give us the three sights that he thought were open and we drove around to see if luck was on our side.  We found a pull through that was open so we drove back to the RV and pulled everything in and moved our site.  Bill said the electric cord was frozen so the task of packing up was not so easy and it was VERY COLD & DARK. 
We move the RV to the other side of the campground and set everything up AGAIN!
I already said it was COLD and we decided it would be smart to let the water drip so it wouldn't freeze and I was very proud in the morning that the water was still dripping....until Bill found the shower was full of water because the gray water was over full.  GREAT!!
First Bill took a couple of buckets of water out of the shower and once again we packed up the rig and it's early and still COLD and we drive carefully to the dump station.
Of course the task of dumping in the COLD was so much fun but needed to be done.  After that was complete we drove to our site and hooked everything back up and decided we were going out for breakfast!

So now, on with the pictures.
This is our beautiful campground.  This place was really out of the way but so worth the drive.

 

 

 

Then it was off to Carlsbad Caverns.  The pictures do not do it justice.  I don't have a tri-pod so all my pictures are holding the camera and there is not a lot of light down there.

 

This is the walk into the cavern.

 

This is looking back at the path we

that we came in on.

 

 Then there were the views as we left the cavern!!

 

 

 

And that brings us to El Paso and Mission RV Park.  It is an ok campground that is right off the express way.  It came highly recomended. 



 We leave here tomorrow and head for Tuscon where we will stay for two nights. 
It is warming up...a little.

San Antonio

Our day started at the Alamo. 

We took a trolley to the Market Place.  There were so many shops to walk through and food to eat!

 

 

 

Here are some random San Antonio street sights.

 

 

 

 

We took a half an hour and toured the Menger Bar where Teddy Roosevelt

signed up the Rough Riders.  The hotel is set up like a museum. 



 

 

 

 

 



The River Walk was beautiful during the day and

even more special at night.  

 

 

 

 

I have to tell you about the campground we stayed at.  It is called Hidden Valley RV Park. We are used to seeing lush campgrounds but out west it is just the opposite.  But the people are wonderful and they have friendly puppies.

 

 

 This is Helen the cattle dog and her buddy!

 

 

It looks like we got out of New Orleans before the snow fell.  It is still chilly on this side of Texas. 

Our next stop is Carlsbad to see the caverns!

Bill and I hope you all had a Very Merry Christmas!!