April 1, 2018
We left The Ranch in Happy Trails of Surprise, AZ around 6 AM on our trip to Nashville to see our Grandson Boone. Since I have a bad ankle Duf did not want me to exit the RV as we pulled out. We started to pull out of our site and then Duf changed his mind and went the other direction so he would not shine our lights in our neighbors window. Mistake we learned later! He had taken one rod out of the ground and laid it next to the second one but when he turned out he brushed the second rod. It bent the rod a bit but we were lucky because it only scratched our tire. We did not even know this happened until Sandy texted us about it. Dang!! We are lucky that the new owners are not going to charge us for this error!
We traveled the winding roads through the scenic mountains of the Tonto Forest. The Apache Indians inhabit this area and we were shocked to see the amount of trash along the road and in their yards.
Around noon we passed the Continental Divide on Highway 10. There was a gift shop advertised but we did not stop. A bit later in Las Cruas we crossed the Rio Grande River and it was full of people swimming. This section has both sides in New Mexico!
We came out of a section of the mountains to a beautiful valley with a Casino and many police cars. They had just rescued a man that had jumped off the bridge because he was drunk and lost his money in the Casino. Just past the Casino was a large horse race track. A river meandered along the remainder of this valley and it was dotted with horse ranches and lush green fields, not what we had seen all winter in the desert! The road was above the valley and gave us a great view of these beautiful farms.
We drove through White Sands but nothing was open for tours. The sand was pure white and blew around like powder! We spent the night in Roswell, NM and did not see any Martians.
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