Saturday was a driving day for us. We dropped off the interstate to get a picture of the Midway Cafe. The cafe is on old RT 66, at the exact midpoint of the road. Most of old 66 is now Interstate 40. There are still portions of it still intact, mostly in the towns along the route. The towns that got passed by the interstate advertise and trade on the 66 draw to get people off the highway and into thier towns. The campground we are at for the weekend is on old 66.
We spent part of the day Sunday at New Mexico State Fair. Louise and I have a tough time not comparing state fairs to the Ohio State Fair. Sorry New Mexico, but your fair is nothing like the fairs in the mid west. I guess it is not fair to compare since the population of Ohio is a lot greater then here. The NM fair was really nice but little. We went to watch some of the horse show and the classes had 5 or 6 horses in them, Ohio would have had 50. They did have a nice craft building with lots of quilts for Louise to look at and a wood carving section for me to look at, that was the best part. One area of the fair grounds was Spanish and one was Indian. The Spanish section had music on stage and indian section had indian dancers.
After leaving the fair we headed to the Petroglyph National Monument. It is a 2 mile round trip hike up a canyon that is strewn with large rocks. There are over 3 hundred petroglyphs on the rocks. We spotted a bunch but not nearly that many. It was pretty cool to see, but very hot to do. The hike was up a canyon with little breeze, all desert sand and the sun was pretty hot.
Tomorrow we will head on west. The first thing I need to do is find and install new fuel filters on the coach. It seems to losing a little power on the hills and I hope that that is the problem. Stay tuned for an update on that one. With any luck I can get them right down the road from the campground we are at. It shouldn't take long to change them and get on the road. We shall see.
Till next time
Duane and Louise
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