New Mexico, Albuquerque - Monday, October 20, 2014 - Enchanted Trails RV Park and Trading Post

There was a line of mesas (I think that is what they are called) for several miles as we drove through the Texas Panhandle on I-40 west.  They were all about the same height and flat on top, looked like the ground had cracked at some point and just pushed one side up.  This reminded me of one of the displays we saw in Canyon, TX in the Panhandle-Plains History Museum.  The narrator said that there is an Amarillo Mountain range, but it is underground.  I’m just not sure how that is still a “mountain”, I understand at one time it was above ground.  At any rate along this mountain (that is underground) is where the abundance of oil and natural gas is found in Amarillo.

 

Coming into New Mexico, stopped at the visitor’s center and picked up some info.  The GPS says we are now on Mountain Time – two hours behind the East Coast time that we are used to.

The scenery has changed from the flat dry grass prairies of Texas to more rolling hills.

Looks like we are heading for a storm.

The hills got bigger as we headed toward Albuquerque.

The Sandia Mountains are to the east of Albuquerque.  These mountains look different than the mountains we have seen in the East.  These look like very huge piles of big loose boulders, and some of them look like they could give way at any minute.

Not sure what this sculpture is along the interstate going through Albuquerque, but it looked interesting.

 

 

We are staying at the Enchanted Trails RV Park and Trading Post for the next two days.  They have more trees here than we have seen all day and wouldn’t you know, we can’t get TV reception because of them J.  Enchanted Trails was originally known as the Hill Top Trading Post on historic Route 66.  The flat roofed adobe style building was constructed in the late 1940’s.

Their brochure says the building was used as a backdrop for several mediocre films and recently their vintage travel trailers were featured in a Route 66 travel video.  These vintage trailers can be rented for the night, complete with period furnishings, vintage dishware and fresh linens.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is a Camping World next door so we walked over and spent some money.  We saw some pads for under the leveling jacks called “Hoss Pads” at a rally some time ago.  We planned on ordering some rather than continue using some miscellaneous boards we’ve had for the past three years, but just hadn’t done it.  We hadn’t seen them anywhere other than the rally, but Camping World had them and they were on sale.