Friday, October 18, 2013

Leaving Truth or Consequences, NM

                      On The Road Again

T or C has been our home base since 2009. I started writing our blog in 2008. Chuck and I have visited a lot of beautiful places in our time on the road… we were not ready to give it up which made our decision to go full time living in our RV, The MotherShip!  But we could have not lived in a town that suited us better than Truth or Consequences NM.
 http://phunnyfarm.blogspot.com/2012/02/truth-or-consequences-new-mexico-usa.html
We are down to 3 days before take off! Emily returns from Kansas Tuesday. Wednesday 10/16/2013 we sign the papers turning the mobile home over to Emily.

Wednesday has come and gone! Papers signed sealed and delivered!  Emily now has a new home near her son, Jim! Her daughter, Juno, also seemed to like T or C very much… so just maybe we will see her leaving Kansas also for the uniqueness that is Truth or Consequences NM.

  We say goodbye to Jake, general manager and imagineer for the beautiful Riverbend Hot Springs.  Our favorite soaking place!

Jake provided us with our first workamping job and once here, we fell in love with Truth or Consequences!
http://www.riverbendhotsprings.com/

Thursday we got on the road headed east to Florida!  We don’t do interstate travelling very much.  You can’t see the heart of America from the interstate!  I will try to post every night and show you our camps. 
We drive by the RV Geezer 2-4- 4Rule, 200 miles, 4 hours or 4 pm.  Whichever comes first, we pull off the road. 10/17/2013 we stretched the rules  a bit.  4.5 hours, about 230 miles and we pulled in around 3:30pm. We landed in Fort Sumner NM, very close to the Texas border, near Clovis NM.  We left T or C on I-25 to Socorro and highway 60East joined I-25 for awhile the veered off the interstate and headed east. From the I-25, highway 60 meandered through ranches and desert roads until we came to Mountainair NM. A small town that looked like it would be fun to explore…  but we drove on! From there Highway 60 ran parallel to the busiest train tracks I have ever seen. Trains pulling endless miles of containers…. full containers headed east and empty containers headed west.  Some of these trains were following each other only a mile or two apart!
Highway 60 East from I-25 starts out as very good road, newly paved and wide shoulders. After Mountainaire we lost the new pavement and wide shoulders but the road was still very good and well maintained.  We encountered very little traffic and made good time, but we had to make 3 doggie rest stops along the way. No pictures, hard to drive and take photographs! I am driving my Chevy TrailBlazer loaded to the hilt leading Chuck and the MotherShip back east.
The campground in Fort Sumner is right on Highway 60 and impossible to miss. Large clean sites, nothing fancy but for one night very suitable and with Full Hook-ups $20 a night.
Today we will walk next door and visit the Billy The Kid Museum, located next to the campground . Billy is buried nearby and apparently created some history in this small town!  I will post some pictures tomorrow.
Today we are headed to Floydada Texas.  We will camp at our favorite FREE city park campground.

City provides  FREE full hook-ups for 4 nights!  They want you to visit and explore their town, eat at their restaurants, fill up your gas tanks, buy groceries and enjoy your stay in Floydada!  I will post more photos of the park later! It’s a very nice one!


I just wanted to post to let family and friends know that we are on the road and loving it!
be happy
So long from the crew of the MotherShip!  Chuck, Geri and our navigators DoogieBowser and Radar!
Happy Trails to you until we meet again!

24 comments:

  1. Whopee, ride 'em cowboy/girl into the morning sunrise (oh, and "cowdoggies" too).

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  2. yaaa. . .glad y'all are finally on the road. . .and thanks for the tip about the RV park in Floydada. . .I looked it up and bookmarked it. . .nice!

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    1. Janice, this is a very nice campground in Floydada! I will post photos tomorrow!

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  3. Have a fun and safe trip! Looking forward to your trip posts.

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    1. Hi Bill and Ann, thanks! Looking forward to seeing you in Florida this Spring!

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    1. Same to you Chinle! Hope it's warmer in Utah than down here in Texas!

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  5. Hello, I have not commented for a while, but have been following your blog. Sorry to see you leave NM, but glad you are following your dream. You turned me on the Chloride NM last year, we had a great time. Hubby is originally from Mountainair, I see you drove through there. We drive through there a lot traveling south to camp from Moriaty. I look forward to your future posts and seeing your wonderful adventures.

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    1. Hi there and welcome back to commenting! Sure glad you visited Chloride! We love it there!

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  6. Have a great trip. Love your RV Geezer 2-4-4 rule. We start out in one week to cross the US and Canada. We will follow that rule a lot.

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    1. Sure hope you are able to avoid the wind and cold weather as you head south! Have you ever seen the wind map? We keep it posted on our desktop! http://hint.fm/wind/ we sure should have looked at it yesterday morning!

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  7. We just love the Floydada stop over site. I think that you guys may have been the ones that gave us that info !

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    1. We love it here at Floydada as well, although there is frost on the ground this morning! Actually Larry,Chuck and I think it was you who introduced us to Floydada! Whichever way it happened, we are glad to be here!

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  8. A bookmark for me...sounds like perfect layer! We head south Wed...Ky, MS, AL, and ending in Destin, FL for Thanksgiving. Going to feel so wonderful after these last sad three weeks! Betting sad to leave T&C but the freedom on the road sure can brings on such happiness! Be safe!

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    1. Destin is not that far from Apalachicola FL!!!! Hopefully we will be able to meet up!

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  9. We will miss you guys, but enjoy your adventures and make sure you keep in touch and come visit often!

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    1. Sorry we didn't make it for our last soak Jake! The day we had planned to come, we woke up to strong winds! Days after that were a blur of siging papers, and finalization of making the MotherShip ready to roll! But we love you all!

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  10. I'm excited for you. My sister and her husband workamped at Riverbend
    Hot springs. Becky & norm Johnson... They now live in Fla. Clearwater/Largo area... You would like them.....

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    1. Our daughter and her family, our 4 grandkids, live near Sarasota so we will be spending some of our time in that part of Florida as well! We love Fort DeSoto County Park and camp there often! We recommend it!

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  11. Looking forward to following your journey. We are at Riverbend and you are right, it is great. Safe travels.

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    1. Tell Jake we said "Hi!" and enjoy your stay there! It is a magical place!

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  12. Hard to say goodbye but fun to be on the road. Free camping with hookups is unheard of. Look forward to see that.

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    1. Woke up to a frosty morning here, but the campground is still free with full hookups! Only 3 of us here last night! Floydada has the right idea!

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