Day 4 of our adventure to Texas via the balloon festival in New Mexico

A warm 80º with feel like of 86º here in Albuquerque, NM at 3:20 pm MT.  The  220 or so miles on the road today sure beat the 432 of yesterday -- and all but 20 miles of it was on Interstate.  Wind was still a little bothersome and only getting about 8.5 MPG today, but 1.5 MPG better than yesterday.

Was a clear day today and weather much different than last few days.  In fact we had the furnace on yesterday morning at Tescott, KS and the air conditioner on last night at Logan, NM.  Today while driving outside temperature was running around 80 to 83 as we gain elevation clear up to and just over 7,000 feet above sea level.  Ran very few steep hills until near Albuquerque.  This height compares with the 997 or so that is at the airport in Clarinda, IA.

GROANER’S CORNER :((
- Those most opposed to serving on committees are made chairmen.
- Those who live closest arrive latest.
- Those with the best advice offer no advice.
- To achieve the impossible, one must think the absurd; to look where everyone else has looked, but to see what no one else has seen.
- To attract maximum attention, it's hard to beat a good, big, dumb mistake.
- To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Got our gas cans filled for the generator that we will run off the next 10 days.  Will fill the fresh water tank and dump the gray and black water tanks in the morning and head for the Balloon field.  We can only enter our area between 8 am and 10 am so will head the 14 miles early and get settled in.   We are on real good WIFI here at KOA but assume will have to work off our 4 GB per month of data on Verizon while boondocking at the balloon field so will probably make limited posts.  Can run generator as needed any time between 5 am and 10 pm but most of what we need runs off 12 volt, so will run generator enough to re-charge the house battery and charge up our phones, etc.

Here is Youtube of last year's International Balloon Festival CLICK HERE

More later, Lynn