Albuquerque to Farmington, NM

Tuesday, October 20 - Moab, UT

We finally have a WIFI connection here in Moab, so I will try to bring you up-to-date on our latest adventures. Since my last post was from the Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, we will pick up from there. I will include pictures from the fireworks display on the last night of the fiesta in the web albums, below.

We left Albuquerque on Sunday morning, Oct. 11, heading for Santa Fe. Our traveling companions, the Burches, came along with us on our way to Farmington, NM, to lend a hand with our first RV show as vendors. Santa Fe is a beautiful city in northern New Mexico. It is the Capital City of New Mexico, and has lots of charm. Upon arrival, we parked our coaches in a WalMart parking lot and took a car into the city to scout around. After parking the car in town, we walked around a bit and decided to have lunch at a neat little cafe called "The Burrito Company". From there, we did a bit of shopping and sightseeing, and finally headed back to the coaches (after a quick stop at the local Dunkin' Donuts!). Since we could not park in the WalMart lot overnight, we left Santa Fe and headed for Espanola, NM, where the local WalMart did allow overnight parking.

On Monday morning, we departed for Farmington, where the Rocky Mountain Ramble RV show was to be held. Since we had originally scheduled to arrive on Tuesday, we decided to stay in a local RV park before heading over to the Fair Grounds to register for the show. After settling in, we took the car and scouted out various locations we would need to use during the show (bank, ice vendors). At the recommendation of our host at the RV park, we all went to dinner Monday evening at the local Red Lobster. If you've never been to a Red Lobster, you HAVE to go!! The food was excellent and plentiful. We will be sure to keep this on our list as a place to go for dinner.

Tuesday morning started with breakfast at another local establishment highly recommended by our host at the campground - Sonyas Country Cookin'. Again, an excellent choice. After breakfast, we returned to the campground and buttoned up the motor home and moved over to the Fair Grounds to register for the show. The Burch's came over once we were settled on our campsite to help us load up and transport everything over to the vendor building, where we then had to haul everything inside and set up the booth. This took us about 4 hours to accomplish, and we covered everything up before heading out for the afternoon. Kathy and I returned to the booth on Wednesday morning to finalize everything and make sure we had all we needed for the start of the show at 9AM Thursday morning.

The RV show was a great experience for us. This was our first show "on our own", and we had a great time. We met lots of other vendors, as well as attendees, who shared our avocation - motorhoming. Charlie and Kathy Burch were so very helpful to us throughout this show. We are forever indebted to them!! Also, in addition to having a wonderful time, we also made a little money!!

From Farmington, we headed north to Colorado to Visit Durango and Mesa Verde National Park. Details of that leg of our trip will be in the next edition of "the Journal". Here are the links to the web albums for this edition:

http://picasaweb.google.com/cbenoitiii/DrivingToSantaFeNM?authkey=Gv1sRgCLCjorr7_6SVhQE&feat=directlink

http://picasaweb.google.com/cbenoitiii/OnTheWayToFarmingtonNM?authkey=Gv1sRgCPjD07rC2O3cCQ&feat=directlink

http://picasaweb.google.com/cbenoitiii/RockyMountainRambleFarmingtonNM?authkey=Gv1sRgCOPwv9WrvqqPsAE&feat=directlink