Old Route 66

Wednesday May 15, 2019

Traveled Wednesday from Alamogordo to Santa Rosa NM. We traveled NM route 54 a good two

lane road.   First was a stone chip in the windshield when a truck passed us.  We stopped for a lunch break started down the road hit a bump and the step cover would not go out.....about 5 min later hit another bump it did, just hoping it goes back in when we stop.  Pulled into our site and the solar shade over the sofa was down, I pulled on it for it to go back up and I ended up with the whole thing in my hand.  Don't touch the night shade, it is down and can stay that way until we get the chance to look at it.  The not so traditional burgers on the grill (buffalo burgers) and just hanging out, watching the CG fill up. We traveled 190 miles in just under 5 hours.

Thursday May 16, 2019

💔  For Shawna (It has been two years)

This AM Brad called the insurance company about the windshield and to our surprise they would

Natural fed water hole called

'Blue Hole'

81 feet deep 

have somebody here today. While we waited for the window guy we worked on the shades that fell down yesterday. We worked for hours watching you tube videos, removed it, rewound them, hung it back up and it had to be the biggest shade in the Moho.   Windshield guy was to be here about 12:30 and showed up about 2:30 and he can't fix it anyway.  The window is to straight up and down, but he has a buddy that has the right equipment so he called him.  To make a long story short...we don't have a clue if it will get fixed, but his buddy was to call, so we got cleaned up and headed into town to explore.  After about 2 hours we hit all the sites but the route 66 museum, so we headed home to figure out dinner.  We decided to order food from the CG and eat about 6:30.....right about 6:00 the windshield guy pulled in.  He fixed the windshield and talked with Brad until after 7:00, so Brad got to eat a cold meal, but it was actually not bad. The wind continues to blow at 25+ mph.

Friday May 17, 2019

A quick breakfast and we wanted to go to Tucumcari to see two museums and a section of old route

One of the many cars.

66.  We just had to wait on the windshield guy to sign paper work.  He was to be here by 9:00 am.  He finally showed up around 12:30, so we stayed in Santa Rosa, first was lunch at the Silver Moon a Mexican dinner, Diane had the tamale special and I had tacos.  Both were good but we are tired of Mexican.  We stopped at  the Route 66 museum which was nice, the owner still restores old cars to put in his museum. After that we headed off to see Lake Santa Rosa State Park.  It is a nice COE lake but it was way to windy to walk any of the trails.  Back to town we stopped to wash the truck and then back home. Left overs for dinner and off to bed.

Saturday May 28, 2019

We had really good intentions of heading to Tucumcari early.  But first was a good breakfast cooked inside, prepared by chef Diane, fresh sausage patty with eggs over fried taters.  Cleaned up and decided to look for a camp ground for the 4th of July week. Well several hours later we headed over to Tucumcari to get groceries and check out the town.  Once again we had to little time and to much to see. The wind is blowing so hard, dust and debris continually blowing across the parking lots. We had lunch at Del's dinner which was very good, Diane had grilled fish and I had chicken and rice without green chili or anything Mexican. We drove through town and hit a few old route 66 historic sites that were nice.  It is really a shame how these towns have deteriorated over time.  The town is just a shell of what it was with at least 50 percent of the buildings are closed and/or abandoned.  Even most of the campgrounds were closed. Next was the dinosaur museum it was OK then off to the grocery store and back to Rudy.  By now it is 7pm so snacks for dinner a walk for Rudy.  Tomorrow we head up to Raton Pass NM elevation 8700 feet and the temp's are to plummet.  

Pictures from Route 66 in Tucumcari.  The hotel was great, each room had a garage and the inside of the garage was painted with the Route 66 theme.