September 29-October 4, 2018
Our next stop was just an overnight on the way to Cochiti
Lake NM. We’re not much into KOA’s but the Tucumcari KOA was fine for an
overnight. Long pull through sites where you could stay hitched up if you
wanted. We all decided that dinner in town that night would be a good idea. Del’s
Restaurant was an excellent choice serving Mexican and American dishes, we all
walked away with happy bellies.
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| Site 36 |
The next day we were up and on the way to Cochiti Lake, a
place I’ve been wanting to go since I read my friend Ingrid’s Live Laugh RV blog about the
great hike in the area. Curt and I had decided to reserve some dry camping sites at Cochiti Lake COE, we reserved site 78 knowing our friends Debbie & Steve
had fit so we had to. Do to the placing of the fencing, wanting to access all
the basement doors and a very deep bedroom slide there ended up being about a 6”
area we could fit into. Once in it was a great site but boy the precision
placing you have do can get comical. Curt and Glenda had reserved site 77 next
to us, they couldn’t get their slides open and walk around their coach, they
ended up in site 73 another beautiful site on the lake.
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| Site 78 |
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Site 73
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As has become the norm the past few weeks we spend part of a
day in Santa Fe, we thought we’d walk around the historic plaza, do some
geocaching and find a brewery.
The Santa Fe Plaza is a marketing area on the streets that
surround plaza, local craftspeople sell their wares in some of the areas.
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| Never know where your name will turn up |
Of course there’s always a geocache to find, this one you
had to go to the concierge desk and ask for it. Found a trackable here, going
to let it go on the adventure with us for the next year.
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| waiting on the geocachers |
Of course the day in town wouldn’t be complete without
tasting some beer, on this trip Curt and Dave tried Second Street Brewery. I
think they enjoyed themselves, the food was okay but not necessary to repeat.
The Kash-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument is a place I’ve
been looking forward to for a few years, we’ve had reservations before and had
to cancel them. When Curt and I first started talking about traveling together
and he mentioned Lake Cochiti, I told him we’d travel this far west with them
before heading back south and east to TX. Dave and I thoroughly enjoy hiking
slot canyons, Curt and Glenda have never hiked in slot canyons before, and
after this hike I think they’ll be hiking more of them where they can. The trail
goes through a slot canyon trail is about a mile long with a steep but doable
climb at the top. Something checked off the bucket list.
Lake Cochiti COE hid a cache on the property which we got out on a walk, Dave must have not brought the camera. When mutual friends Steve and Debbie of Down the Road heard we were in the area they
let us know of a cache they hid nearby, of course we had to get it.
This is as far west as we go, from here we head southeast
and Curt and Glenda head southwest. What a great time we’ve had over the last 3
weeks, we look forward to our next adventure together, unfortunately it’ll be
another year at least till our travel paths might cross. We’ve had a blast sharing adventure and making memories, great friends
= great memories. We're going to miss you guys.
Until next time…
