We drove our coach 176 miles, about 3 hours of driving, from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
The map route, heading south:
The Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta finished on a Sunday morning, and we were scheduled to leave the following day, but I noticed that our next site was available on Sunday, so we decided to grab that and leave a day early:
A view of the mountains by Albuquerque:
Freeways:
Downtown Albuquerque:
Heading south on I-25:
Wide load of the side of the road:
It wasn’t a particularly long drive, but we had an early start to the day for the fiesta, so we stopped at both of the rest areas on the route; here’s the first:
Interesting collection of elevated picnic shelters:
Onward:
The second rest area:
Paladin asleep:
I-25:
Truth or Consequences:
Paladin climbed on the back of Jenn’s chair while she was driving:
Back in a more normal place:
Interesting clouds:
A glimpse of Caballo Lake:
Our destination, Caballo Lake State Park:
Palomino Campground, one of a few in the state park, but the only one with full hookups, which we really needed after dry camping at the fiesta:
Our site:
Our coach approaching our site:
