Lyman Lake SP Arizona

Just a quick post. We had to drive into the boonies to get a signal. Our drive took us through  El Malpais National Monument. Malpais means something like "badlands" in Spanish. It's a humongous lava field. Anyway it was a very scenic drive. We pulled over and did a short hike to an arch which you might be able to see in a couple of the pictures if you use your imagination. We ate lunch in a tiny town. The food truck was the only option. There are a few things to do here so we might do some of them tomorrow. 

Santa Fe day 2

Today was pretty much devoted to admin. I did get out on my bike for 45 minutes. I have been pushing my heart rate up alittle bit more every time I ride. Not fully back yet but there is some progress. We decided to find a lunch spot not downtown. The meal was very good but the dessert was spectacular. We will be in Arizona tomorrow.

Santa Fe

We are in a commercial campground (Santa Fe Sky's Campground). We have stayed here a bunch of times. We were assigned a spot and when we plugged into the electric post our surge protector wouldn't let us get power. There was a ground fault. The maintenance guy came out and he swore we had a faulty surge protector. This is weird but we actually have 2 surge protectors, one of them is built in. That surge protector wouldn't let us get power either. We moved to another site. Problem solved. The archeological site we visited yesterday was the place where, in the 1930s,  some unique spear points where discovered beside animal skeletons. That spear point is called a Clovis Point. That discovery proved that humans were here, in N America 13000 years ago. At the time that discovery was very surprising. That timeline has since been moved back further. The pic is the site of a dig that has exposed hundreds of bones of mostly extinct animals. We are here all day tomorrow.

Oasis SP day 2

This park is only 600 acres so the trail system is fairly insignificant. Jenny and I hiked every  trail this morning. There has apparently been some rain in the preceeding weeks because there was a wide variety of flowering plants beside the trail. This afternoon we visited, Blackwater Draw Archeological Site. I'll talk about that in a future post. We are headed for Santa Fe tomorrow. 

Oasis State Park NM

This park is in eastern NM. The town is Portales and we are not too far from Clovis. There is a small lake in the park that at one time was filled by a seep. The water table has been lowered by ag irrigation so the seep is no longer there. Consequently, the park keeps the lake full by pumping well water into it. A sad development. One funny thing happened this morning. We drove up to the dump station and got in line. The 2 people ahead of us were ready to leave and our arrival prompted them to drive off. As they left the dump station a guy ran out of the men's room and started yelling and waving his arms as he ran after them. He disappeared around the corner. He soon came back feeling dejected and asked to use my phone. His ride eventually returned but Jenny and I had a good laugh. We are here all day tomorrow. There are a few trails to hike but afternoon temps have been gross.

Foss Lake day 2

Will the excitement ever end?. At 4:20 this morning the power went out in the campground. We knew this because the AC abruptly stopped. After I concluded that  everyone had lost power we said "oh well" and went back to sleep. It was reasonably cool outside and we were ok inside. At 6:10 the power abruptly came back on. The AC started back up and a bunch of our electronic stuff started beeping. We ended up sleeping in, this morning. The same thing happened this afternoon. The only difference being it was 98°. We ran the generator during the outage which has now ended. Our adventure today was a trip into Clinton Ok (17 miles) where we had lunch and visited the Route 66 Museum. It was surprisingly interesting. The lake pic was taken beside the MP door as I am doing this post. We have water front. Tomorrow we drive across the Panhandle of Texas and end up in New Mexico.

Foss Lake SP Ok.

We woke up this morning with our phones yelling at us to seek shelter immediately. This is Oklahoma so that's really not something you want to hear. We looked out the window and there was a wall of black headed in our direction. I was able to put away the Little satellite dish just before it started blowing and raining. There were 45 minutes of excitement and the storm delayed our departure for about 30 minutes but it passed, kinda like a gall stone. After we got on I-40 there was a Semi that had blown over and was reaking havoc on the East bound side. Foss lake is near the town of Foss. Weird. Anyway it backs up behind an earthen dam that in 1962 was the longest in the country. 3 miles. I am including a couple of pictures of the dam for some reason. The picture taken across the lake shows only maybe a mile of it. We drove across it just so that we could say we did. The highest temp we saw today was 104°. It has been real windy so I think this is what it feels like to be in a convection oven. We are here all day tomorrow, not sure what we'll do. They do have a 9 hole disc golf course.