Today we left Aztec and headed towards OKC. And it seemed like nothing went right.
We got a later start than usual. Normally we hit the road around 9 am. Today it was well after 11 by the time we pulled out. Why? I have no idea. It just did.
Luckily, it was a lovely, sunny day. And we had a nice lunch at a little Indian Casino on our way south towards Albuquerque. But things turned sour shortly thereafter.
When we got to Albuquerque we needed to gas up. I had looked at Google maps yesterday and found the TA truck stop there. But Tom-Tom, our GPS didn’t know where it was, and I got us semi-lost trying to find it. After a liesurely drive through a residential area, we got back on the Interstate and Richard spotted a gas station at an exit. But we had to circle the motorhome through a strip mall parking lot and out the back side of it to manage to get into the service station. Our 60 gallon tank took 51 gallons! Then to get out of the service station and back on the highway, we had to make a right turn away from the interstate and loop through a grocery store parking lot before getting headed the right way!! Oy, vey!!!!
By then it was well after 4 and we were both ready to call it a day. According to our campground directory, there was a campground at Moriarty, about 30 miles east of Albuquerque. But when we got there, the campground was defunct. I don’t know if you have ever driven through New Mexico, but it has a LOT of empty space!! The next town east from Moriarty is Santa Rosa, a mere 90 more miles. 
So we drove on in the gathering dusk. And in the dark. We had never driven the motorhome in the dark before. We found out that the headlights don’t cast much light. We were in a steady stream of traffic, mostly semis. Richard said he doesn’t want to do that again.
We got here around 6pm. We needed propane, because the cold snap last week just about used up all our propane. And the campground we were at in Aztec didn’t sell propane. And this campground has propane, but they don’t sell it after 5pm. So we got checked in, and were assigned site #50. When we pulled up to it in the dark, there was a big 5th wheel sitting in it.
So I walked back up to the office and told the manager that there was a big-assed 5th wheel in our site. He said his wife had told him the 5th wheel had been removed. But obviously it hadn’t, so he gave us site# 48. We got set up and walked up to the restaurant for dinner. It was ok, but Richard said his BBQ was more like roasted meat with Kraft BBQ sauce on it.
Oh, well. Tomorrow is another day.
