Friday, December 31

HAPPY NEW YEAR’S EVE! PLEASE STAY SAFE.

Day 81 – When we got up this morning we checked the weather forecast. We plan to move along sometime within the next few days, but hadn’t decided where we were going next. We thought about going south, but saw that very cold temperatures would be arriving this weekend along with that winter storm we’d been hearing about. The Winter Storm Warnings at one place we’d considered going to, City of Rocks, made us reconsider.

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Thursday, December 30

BOSQUE DEL APACHE#5.

Day 80 – It’s beginning to get colder here. The nights were low to mid-30’s, now upper 20’s. The days were upper 50’s to mid-60’s, now upper 40’s to mid 50’s. There’s almost always some wind blowing, but it hasn’t been with the high gusts we’d experienced in eastern New Mexico. Rumor has it that a winter storm may be coming in from the northwest over the weekend.

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