Day 2 -We are in Raton Pass, NM

Tuesday, June 2 – Raton Pass, NM

9:00 am

Got moving early this morning....couldn’t wait to see if I could get us out of the RV parking space I managed to lodge myself into without any insurance damage.  We disconnected the motorcycle trailer, moved the RV carefully past the 5th wheel (I believe I visually measured 6” between us) that was parked next to us, drove around the block and came back & picked up the trailer.  Now I was in the park backwards.  Couldn’t make the sharp u-turn at the end of the road, so Chuck and I both thought, “Hey, there’s a road to the right we could take....I bet it goes out”.  Well, it didn’t.  DEAD END.  Yep, you guys haven’t been praying hard enough for me not to have to back the RV up with a trailer....a major no-no.....so I was forced to BACKUP WITH A TRAILER.  I’m just glad this issue isn’t hanging over me anymore....I’ve now done it; nothing was damaged in the process and I’m not nearly as frightened of doing this now.  We still had to disconnect the trailer and reposition the RV, but hey, it all worked out and we didn’t yell at each other in the process.

So we get on our way down the road.  As we were chuckling over how stupid we were, it started raining.  Hard...VERY HARD..  Chuck and I looked at each other and decided we were being tested to see how we handle difficult situations....and today we passed I’m happy to say!

7:15 pm

We are now in Raton Pass which is just south of the border of Colorado & NM.  We made good time today even though we had 40 mph SIDE winds (verified on the weather channel) and are currently perched on top of a cliff overlooking the mountains and the highway that the semi's are crawling up.  Chuck is making pasta tonight and it smells G-O-O-D!!  This driving thing makes you hungry.  

Murphy is doing great.  He's loving being an only child and wearing his favorite sweatshirt....did I mention it's 48 degrees outside (crazy cold front blew in with the 40 mph winds....go figure!).  We've been pulling burrs out of his paws since we got here that he got at the gas station.  He had a little...ugh....how do I say this delicately....diarrhea at the gas station.  

All in all, today was a good day.  Much much better than yesterday and we are looking for tomorrow to be even better than today.  I would be including pictures of all of these nice adventures so far, but I left my digital card reader at home, so until we get by a Wal-Mart, I'm just including pictures from Google.  Talk to ya tomorrow!