Road Trippin'

This morning finds your intrepid travelers camped at Fenton Lake SP. We are in a hurry to get started on the final leg of our trip which will take us away from Jemez Springs and back to the main route...mostly because we woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of freezing rain and snow on the roof. Mark wasn't too concerned, although I'd begun to have a small melt-down due to the steep grades and the amount of snow and ice I'd seen on the way to the state park.

Besides, it was only 17 more miles of gravel road until we got back to the paved route....how bad could it be? Well, it could be so bad that it took us 3 1/2 hours to drive the 17 miles of paved road. Thankfully, the grades on this portion of the road were not very bad at all. And the scenery was magnificent! Here are a few snapshots of the road we were traveling and some of the surrounding scenery.







After this, we had one more portion of very steep grades where we were once again forced to make numerous stops in order for our brakes and tires and transmission to cool down. We have reached the expensive conclusion that when we get to Albuquerque we are going to have to replace the tires on the motorhome. And it won't be much longer until we will need new brake linings, but that is something we may do ourselves since every place we've called wants hundreds of dollars to do it.