We stopped for one night at the Gold Nugget Dispersed Camping. It was an easy off from the freeway just outside of Quartzite, Nevada. I've been trying to plan our return trip with shorter driving days, although it looks like we will have to change our planned route because of snowy and icy conditions north of Bishop, California.
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| Sunset from Gold Nugget Dispersed Camping. |
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| The I10 freeway was close, but not too loud. |
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| Cedar has figured out how to jump into the bathroom. |
We drove south from Albuquerque and stopped in Socorro, where we met, and where we both went to college at New Mexico Tech. We didn't go to campus at all, but we did stop just a few miles south of town in San Antonio to eat an early lunch at the Owl Bar. When I lived here, I usually ate at the Owl about once a month, but never with Russ. He wasn't in my close circle at school (different departments). This lunch triggered an avalanche of nostalgia that has continued all the way through Tucson.
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| Chaos and Green Chile at the Owl Bar. |
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| Green chile onion rings. |
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| The road south from Albuquerque. I know this road well. |
We left Aztec for Albuquerque on November 1, el dia de los muertos. We stopped twice on the way south to give Cedar a chance to rest and use his litter box. He did yowl a bit for the first hour or so... letting us know that he didn't want to be back in his carrier or in the truck. I do enjoy the drive, any drive really, but New Mexico is especially beautiful in the fall. We descend in altitude as we move south, so the fall colors which are all but over in Aztec are going strong in Albuquerque. The Rio Grande Valley is painted with gold. We are staying at the Isleta Lakes RV Park just south of the city. It's a nice, quiet place, not too close to I25, but with regular train traffic disturbingly close.
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| Our spot at Isleta Lakes RV Park. |
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| Fall color, again. |
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| Trails at the RV Park. |
