BOSQUE DEL APACHE #6.
LADD #2.
Day 83 – It was 18 degrees this morning, SO cold. But today the wind was much lower and the sun was out all day. We are leaving tomorrow for a new destination. Today will be massive birdwatching.
Continue readingChupadero Mountain RV Park
Saturday, January 1, 2022
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
Part 1.
Day 82 – We wish you all a healthy & happy new year for 2022. We know some of you in particular, had a really bad year in 2021. We wish for you strength, faith, and speedy recoveries. Our thoughts are with you.
Continue readingFriday, 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.
Continue readingThursday, 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.
Continue readingWednesday, December 29
BOSQUE DEL APACHE #4.
Day 79 – This is what happens when we get behind with the blog. We sat down this morning to work on the pictures and text for the blog from two days ago and discovered we’d already posted today’s pictures from the Refuge – in yesterday’s blog, along with all of yesterday’s Refuge pictures. Oh well. When you get behind and don’t post daily, it gets confusing.
Continue readingTuesday, December 28
BOSQUE DEL APACHE #2 AND #3.
Day 78 – The best time to view the birds is usually around sunrise and around sunset. Since we had a LONG day yesterday, we went back to the wildlife refuge today after the sun rose, but we do hope to get up really early one morning and catch the “fly-out”, when the cranes, geese, and ducks that are leaving to go to the fields depart mostly all at once. It can be quite a spectacle.
Continue readingMonday, December 27
TRAVEL DAY
From: Bottomless Lakes State Pk., Roswell, NM – Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge.
To: Chupadero Mountain View RV Pk., San Antonio, NM – Bosque del Apache NWR.
Day 77 – We are behind with our blog posts; we are fine, just slow, LOL. Today is Dec. 30 and we’re just getting to Monday’s post. Got busy – sorry!
Back to Monday, we got up early, to an alarm – a horrific way to start the day when you’re retired! We needed to get on the road as early as possible since our travels today were going to take us through mountain passes with predicted high wind gusts beginning mid-morning.
Monday, February 19, 2018
RIDERS ON THE STORM.
Day 162 – Beginning of Week 24. By the time we went to bed last night, we’d pretty much decided to get up early this morning and head southeast ASAP to beat the wind. We got up at 5 a.m. and Rob checked the forecast first thing. The weather had changed to a Winter Weather Watch with 4 to 8 inches of snow at 7,000 feet elevation and up to 16 inches of snow at 9,000 feet and above. (We were at 5,000 to 6,000 feet already, surrounded by mountains from 6,500 to 8,500 feet.) The storm was coming from the northwest, and wind predictions had increased to sustained wind above 30 MPH with 40-60 MPH gusts beginning around noon & lasting through the night.
63 miles
Sunday, February 18, 2018
BOSQUE DEL APACHE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.
Day 161 – We packed a lunch and headed out for the wildlife refuge at 9:30 a.m. It was partly cloudy and 44 degrees, a little breezy. It was only 5 minutes from the RV to the beginning of Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. We really like being that close. This refuge is a major stopover for migrating geese, ducks, and cranes. If we’d come here when we’d originally planned to, we’d have seen it all. But our side trips to the Grand Canyon, Zion, and Monument Valley put us here after most of these birds had left. We knew this would probably happen, and it was fine since we’d spent all that time in the Sacramento Valley seeing these birds at that major stopover. And the time spent at the places we drove to was some of the best in the trip thus far.
Saturday, February 17, 2018
THE VERY LARGE ARRAY.
Day 160 – Rob was up at 7 a.m.; I got up at 7:30. 42 degrees; it had stopped raining. Soon after I got up, 4 Sandhill Cranes flew in & were eating breakfast in the field to the north of us. Then they flew over to the field south of our RV, ate some more, then left. During that timeframe, Rob went out and tromped around in the muddy fields to get some pictures. The campground owner came out & dropped some corn on the field right in front of the RV, then he & Rob were outside talking for quite awhile. I took a shower, and when Rob came back he did the same, after cleaning gobs of mud from his shoes. While Rob was taking his shower, the cell phone rang – someone calling from New Mexico, who can that be – and I answered. A gruff voice said, “Look outside your front window” and hung up. I turned to look outside our front window, and there were 5 Sandhill Cranes eating the corn, very soon after he’d put it out for them. Rob got out of the shower, threw on some clothes, and ran outside with the camera. They were right outside our windows! (And the Cranes had muddy feet, too.)