New Mexico, then Sierra Vista Arizona

New Mexico is very flat, the perfect place for wind turbines.

We stayed in Elephant Butte for a couple days along the Rio Grande River.  They call it a lake through this area and although it was the off season this is the boating place.

Were staying the month of February at Vista View Resort in Sierra Vista, Arizona.  It's a larger city with all the amenities of home, actually more than we have at home in Au Gres.  

We loved this area last year near Tombstone, Tubac, and Tucson and decided to return.  

These are the views from around the resort.  There are houses and some motor home sites available to rent by the month or season.

Whether your looking East, West, North or South mountains are off in the distance.  

New Year 2020

We lived in Moose for exactly one year traveling.  Once we arrived in Michigan it seemed harder to live on the road and visit with friends and family.  We tried a couple different options and didn't end up with an acceptable solution.  In October 2019 we closed on a home with access to Lake Huron, 2 hours from our children/grand kids and friends.  We had been looking in this particular area for awhile knowing we had plans of boating the Great Lakes and this place became available, we love it.

We got back on the road January 22 heading Southwest as fast as we could.  We traveled 1,765 miles in four days to get into New Mexico, whew, what a rush to get past those snow and ice storms.  It was great hooking up with a couple of friends, Jane and Pat from Michigan, we enjoyed stopping to have lunch with you in St Louis.  Two days later we met with their daughter Karen who just moved to Clovis NM for lunch.  That was so cool that our paths were crossing at the same time on the road and just as she moved to New Mexico.

From Clovis we headed north to Tijeras NM to hole up for 4 days and take some trips up to Santa Fe.  First we visited Meow Wolf.  Next we visited Canyon Road home to 80 of the 240 galleries in the Santa Fe area.  After 2 full days, we made it to about 10 galleries, they were so amazing we spent so much time in each one.  Definitely we will return to Santa Fe, visit more galleries, museums and Georgia O'Keeffe museum and her studio/home.





Inside the Meow Wolf walk through exhibit.



It's a very visual experience and even better with 3D glasses.

Meow Wold is weird, like nothing you've ever experienced, you just have to do this for yourself.

The architecture is Southwest all over Santa Fe this is a gallery front on Canyon Rd.

There are galleries on both sides of Canyon Road and courts leading to other galleries.  

What a beautiful road with so much to see.

Leaving Arizona heading East into New Mexico April 8 through April 15, 2019

Santa Rosa Lake State Park New Mexico

They had some hiking trails near the campground.

It was very rocky, the trail was a 3 mile loop around the campground.

This hiking trail over looked the lake created by the dam.

Our jeep is parked in front of the motor home, we have a tornado heading straight for us, the rain turned to hail.  We were so lucky, the tornado warning was called off just before it reached us.

The hail was the size of grapes.  We were camped at Enchanted Trails RV Park just outside

of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

After leaving Arizona we first camped at Bluewater State Park, New Mexico.  The elevation was 7,400 feet.  We were going to camp 2 nights but after one night I became very sick and found out it was the elevation making me sick.  We pulled camp and headed to a lower elevation and luckily there was a Walmart to spend the night.  We spent 7 days crossing New Mexico.

Were back in Michigan

It's hard to believe our last post was from Winslow Arizona in April. I'll be back tracking to show you some of the cool places and things we did between there and here.

We traveled 8,600 miles in the motor home (Moose) since October 2018 those miles do not include miles we drive in the jeep.

Were on a mission to visit all the National Parks. 

The black pins on the map represent their locations.

Winslow , Petrified Forest and Grand Falls, Arizona/Santa Rosa Lake,New Mexico

 Winslow, Arizona

Here's the corner in Winslow

Downtown Winslow, Arizona

Petrified Forest, Arizona

Entrance to The Park 

Information board on the petrified forest process

The flowers were just starting to bloom

Gives you an idea on the size of some of the trees

Had plenty of these Raven's in the park

Panoramic of the petrified valley

The color variations were beautiful

 Couple more panorama's

Grand Falls, Arizona

Grand Falls,Arizona is taller than Niagara Falls

Panoramic view

It almost looks like chocolate milk falling

Standing at the edge

Santa Rosa Lake, New Mexico

Nice pull through site

Pretty good sized man made lake in the desert

Lots of rock surfaces on the trail

This gives you a feel of the hiking trail

Some parts of the trail had juniper trees and cactus

Lots of dry debris waiting for a spark

RV Living stats from the road

We have been on the road for over 4 months in our 34' motor home named Moose.  With our three slides, we live in 318 sq ft.

Since our last post we have been traveling in Texas and New Mexico covering 1488 miles in 34 days.  

The weather has been in the 80's and down to 20's and everything in between.  Michigan is not the only state that can change 20 degrees in one day's time.  The difference is the day time highs recover rapidly and our average temperature has been about 60.

131 days on the road

4,998 miles 

29 campgrounds

12 states

$17.37 average daily camping cost