Wed 1/13

Wednesday 1/13

Day off. Besides doing a dump/flush, I went to lunch with Carol Bruce, the local RVW member. She picked me up at 11am and suggested a drive up to Ruidoso and back down through Cloudcroft. Yow. That would have been about 3-4 hours, cooped up in a car with a stranger. I said, lunch is fine. So we went to Juan's in the mall, which turns out to be a fast-food type place, with others near it, sort of like a food court. As expected, the food was edible but that's all.

Carol is a retired teacher from Deming, and grew up here in Alamogordo, so we had lots to talk about. She's getting progressively deafer so sometimes it was difficult. Pleasant, likes to read, has traveled a lot, is a night owl. Short and chubby.

Her rig is an Europa, which she took me to see. It's a small Class A (28ft); I'm 21ft with the back rack), separate bedroom with two twin beds, tub/shower combo. Design is very non-colonial, clean lines, light woodtones. Very nice, indeed. And she says she gets 17 mpg in her 8cyl engine. Of course, it's been in the shop for 18 months and nobody seems to be able to fix the overheating problem. They've even replaced the engine.

She came to see my rig when we returned and thinks it's "cute" and just enough for one.

Wants to get together for day trips, which I'm willing to do as she'll drive. And she says she'll have me over for dinner. Agrees with me that there's not a lot to do here if you aren't a church-goer, and the sidewalks roll up about 8pm. Seems there's a church here for every 12 people! She says she's spiritual but not religious (un huh).

All in all, not too bad a day. Took a 2-hour nap this afternoon, needed because I got up at 6am after a slightly disjoined sleep. Groggy after the nap, though, which is unusual.

Friday I'll be shipping many boxes of books, and the broken light fixture.