Colorado here we come!

May 23 - We made it safe and sound to Navajo State Park, and boy, is it in the middle of no where.  The lake it’s on is huge and beautiful.  The trip here was uneventful.  We left Albuquerque at 7:45 and stopped in Bernalillo at the KOA to dump our tanks for the long drive.  That took about 30 minutes.  Then we headed on up the road.  It was not Interstate but it was all nice 4 lane road until the last 30 miles.  We had expected to run into some wind along the way but luckily did not have but a few swells along the road. 

For some reason I got really tired and could barely keep my eyes open, so Bill got to switch with me for a while.  I napped and then traded back.  He got to drive through a couple of small towns and make several turns, so it was good experience for him.  It was only 200 miles today and we stalled off lunch until we arrived.  The Volunteer Coordinator, Terry met us and led us to the Carracas Campground where we will be spending the summer.  There are 3 campgrounds here and ours is the middle one.  We are the first site at the entry and it is concrete pad, and perfectly level.  We have a sheltered picnic table and some nice grass for Xena to do her business.  The minute we arrived the real wind kicked up and has not stopped.  We were concerned that from the direction it was coming it might tear up one of our slide toppers so we brought the slide in after we finished vacuuming and so it’s been a bit cramped. 

We didn’t get to put out our lights or anything outside due to the wind.  One of the other volunteer couples came by and introduced themselves.  Nice people from south of Tucson.  We also met one of the seasonal rangers, a volunteer who is the head of maintenance and he and his wife live on a houseboat on the lake.  There are 11 volunteers for the summer, so that’s good.  There is a couple assigned to each campground and a couple who covers those couples’ days off.

I really needed to get some laundry done and put in my first load and it washed but would not spin.  I wanted to cry.  I just can’t believe now the washer is broken.  The error message says it’s electrical.  I called Whirlpool and was on hold for over 15 minutes and once I got someone and clarified who I was, my machine’s info and told her I wanted clarification of what that code means, she said she’d look it up and we got disconnected.  I wasn’t up to trying again so will call tomorrow.  We have to go tomorrow and get a PO Box , so will take all the laundry and find the Laundromat.  Maybe Bill can sit with the wash while I get some milk and a couple other things.  If it weren’t for bad luck, we’d have no luck at all!

For dinner we had our leftover stuffed peppers and then took Xena for a walk around our campground loop.  There are only 2 others here tonight but for the Memorial weekend, all are reserved but 5 in our campground.  Our sites are water and electric and the first one is full hook ups and it’s almost full now.  We drove around the whole park and the lake is beautiful and there are a lot of houseboats on it now.  We will be busting our butts come Monday and everyone leaves and we have to work each site.  Fun! 

I printed some picture with the new printer and it does a really nice job.  Bill wants to send some as postcards so I will have them ready for him in the morning.  Time for bed, I’m pretty tired tonight!