Yesterday I worked all day so I did not post. This morning we were pretty lazy and took our time leaving the Hyatt Place in Albuquerque, New Mexico. When we left we headed to find
diesel gas. This is not as easy as it seems when you are driving around in a house and you have a 100 gallon gas tank. So it is important to us to get a great price. We took a risk and started driving toward our next destination and hoped to find gas on the way. Well it didn't pay off and we spent 4.10 per gallon, I guess it is better than the Chevron down the road that was 4.19 per gallon (we located cheaper gas online for 3.97 on the other side of town, oh well, live and learn). After gas and another "side of the road" purchase (I have a bad habit of buying anything that is sold by locals on the side of the road) of fresh baked
Indian bread, we were on our way. We drove to
Capitan, New Mexico and went to the Smokey the Bear National Museum and grave site. We learned that a 2 and a half week old bear cub was found badly burned in the nearby forest and was taken in by the firefighters and brought back to health. This cub quickly became the symbol of "preventing forest fires" Smokey the Bear. Smokey was flown to Washington DC and lived in a zoo there for 26 years till he died in 1976. Smokey is the second most
recognizable character second only to Santa Clause. When Smokey died they flew his bear body back to Capitan and was buried near the museum.
After visiting the museum we headed to dinner at the Smokey the Bear Cafe (everything in this small town is named after the famous bear). After a good cafe dinner we decided it was to late to make it to Lincoln, New Mexico tonight(home of Billy the Kid)so we found a place to park the RV near a great park. The boys have been playing at the park for the last 1.5 hours (a much needed energy release, note to self... find more parks!) We are now going to walk to the ma and Pa store and buy some groceries and then get an early start tomorrow.
Don't freat, I have great pics of Smokey museum to post, but I first took them with my good camera that after a few pics I realized there was no CF card. So I then took them with the video camera, but just realized that the cord needed to down load pics is somewhere under the rig. Will post as soon as it is found.
