Day 76 – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Dear followers of these humble writings, I’m sure that you will recall fairly recent observations in this blog concerning how sick and tired we all were of the rain, the cold, the overcast skies, the whole miserable weather experience of Western Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas. You will also recall our decision to head directly west at a reasonable pace to escape that dismal climate, a plan that has succeeded, perhaps too well. To put it bluntly, it’s doggone hot. It was hot in Tucumcari, and it’s hot here. I’m hoping it’s going to cool off, but I don’t have any assurance of that. You must realize that Geri and Don are in agreement with me that the temperature, particularly in the afternoon, is way too high for their comfort, let alone mine, with my elegant, but permanent, golden coat of fur. After we arrived at our new RV Park, another KOA, they needed to go shopping to find me some more of my food. I was grateful for this effort on their part, but really wanted to go with them, as I love to go shopping in pet stores. But they decided that it was too hot for me to ride in the back of the truck, and I had to stay home in the air conditioning. On the positive side, they were able to find my food at a nearby store, and I was glad to have my dinner on time.

I also need to point out that our decision to move west with alacrity was a good one just from the standpoint of our survival. Don and I were watching the Weather Channel this morning before we left Tucumcari, and saw that very high winds and rain were sweeping across southern Missouri, where we would have been had we not changed our plans. Houses were being wrecked, towers blown down, we even saw a school that was destroyed. We really wouldn’t have wanted to be in the middle of that. So, we really are better off here, regardless of the heat. We understand that it should cool off a little tomorrow, so we’re hoping for the best. We’ve signed up for three nights here, Geri and Don have several places they want to visit.

Anyway, the air conditioning continues to work well, we’re very comfortable inside the rig, and I sleep well at night. Don has promised to take me to a park with some good grass tomorrow morning, he scouted it out today while they were shopping for my food. That’s good, cause I really need to do some running and rolling. I’ll let you know tomorrow how it works out. Bye for now!