On the move

We left Durango one day early.  We felt with the very cold weather coming, we'd rather be in Taos, not trying to move when it gets down to single digits, yeah, single digits!  There were only 6 of us left in the campground as we bid farewell and headed south to "warmer" temps.  Ha! An indication on our last day it was time to go, go, go.

That snow is not much higher than us

Right above the campground

It's pretty, but it's time to go

 It was only 25df when we departed and we were very anxious to see how our new wax valve would perform.  And we can report, all looks good.  Our engine temps were great the 200 miles to Taos, including going over a big pass at 10,500', and several other serious grades and we never saw a temp higher than 195df, back where it needs to be.  We were hoping the outside temps would be a little warmer as they never got above 40df the whole day, but we are very confident our cooling issues can be put behind us finally.

Now before we left we had a couple other things to do.  Jan wanted to hike Spud Lake again, me, not so much, so off went the intrepid hiker by herself.  She reported she had a wonderful time, especially as she never saw another person the entire hike!

The beaver pond was already frozen on the way to Spud

She made it!

Jan's sister, Karen had stopped in for one night after some service on her motorhome before she went home and we were sitting enjoying happy hour we all saw a flash, a brown flash fly from under the passenger seat towards the driver's seat, a Mouse!  But we weren't the only ones.

Our protector, Bert, intent on finding the mouse

Of course we never saw it again until morning when we found him in a trap!  

Two more things to do and then we'd be off.  Jan got her hair cut, and then we met for our last lunch out at The Irish Embassy Pub which we enjoy.

Jan's delicious corned beef sliders

My delicious Rueben

But the best?  Two nice pints of Guinness!!

So off we went, stopped for lunch at our favorite overlook on the way.

Baby, it's cold outside!
25df

So we arrived in Taos, set up camp:-)  Filled our water tank, unhooked the water hose and sewer to get ready for the 5df night we are expecting, and had the distinct displeasure of waking up to a snow covered ground to boot!  We are beginning to think that maybe late Oct into early Nov is a bit too late for these areas.  Hmmmm.