New Mexico, Tucumcari - Friday, October 30, 2015 - Rainy Travel Day

We got the front tires balanced before we headed out of Pratt, KS this morning.  That got rid of a little shimmy we had after getting the new tires put on.  The front tires were balanced when we put them on but we threw at least one of the weights so we knew they were out of balance again.  My question is, if we spend $800 per tire why can’t they make them so they are balanced when they go on, why do they have heavy spots?  Greg just shook his head.  I really don’t think I’m being unreasonable J.

 

 

Going to miss these guys.  I was able to get both kids to not make faces for a picture when I showed them that I didn’t have a good picture of their family for our “family picture wall”.  Their picture that is up there now is one they had taken at Great Wolf Lodge – they all have on wolf ears.  Guess they didn’t want that up there forever.

Last night with Grandpa and Grandma was spent in some serious Connect Four contention.

We saw a lot of this today – open range and rain.  At least Greg did, I slept most of the day.  I couldn’t take many pictures because of the rain and the scenery was all pretty much the same so I didn’t feel too bad about napping.  We traveled a little over 360 miles today, touching on Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico.

After seeing all of the pretty much flat open prairie, Tucumcari Mountain looked pretty strange.  We are staying the evening at Mountain Road RV Park.  This is a nice little country park with graded gravel sites, full hookups and 50 amp service for $27.80 for the night with our Good Sam discount.  Flying J truck stop is just down the road so we can fill up before heading out in the morning.  Still cold, it's 45 degrees here.