Okay, I am thankful to be alive this morning (10-2-09) as the last two days have been an experience.
Wednesday morning we left Cortez, Co. heading to Dancing Eagle Casino outside of Albuquerque to meet up with others who would be going into Balloon Fest with us. Now we knew the night before from the weather forecast that it would be somewhat windy. Oh My!!! We had wind all day around 50-60mph with sand blowing too. Twice we had to pull off the side of the road and then we did find a school with a rather large parking lot. Duck Tape and Bungee Cords are RV's best friends. We had awnings coming loose, emergency windows blowing out, it was a tough day but by the grace of God we made it to the Casino after about 8 1/2 hours of driving 225 miles.Larry actually climbed on top of the "bus" on his hands and knees which about scared me to death but it had to be done. You know nothing can happen to him because I would be stuck in the middle of no where without a driver. I hugged him that night and told me what a great job he did. I knitted so much that day that my fingers were sore but thought I should keep my hands and mind busy so I would not talk and bother him while he was driving. Yes, I know it is very hard for ME NOT to talk.
When we got to the Dancing Eagle we meet up with the 5 other couples who are with us at the Festival then yesterday (Thursday) we traveled on to the Balloon Festival and meet all the group. We have 21 coaches now.
Got all settled for the next 10 days and when I got up this morning Larry comes to tell me there are balloons going up. I went outside in my PJ's and a jacket as it was cold and watched for a while.
Tomorrow is the offical start day so I just know it is going to be wonderful.
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oh my it sounds like you had quite the day of traveling...good for larry for being such a good driver...oh i know exactly how you felt..one time going down a huge mountain (i though so anyway) into jackson hole i prayer all the way down but before that i had been driving and half way up the mountian lar said did i want him to drive so we switched drivers amen to that...the brakes started smoking going down--so we found a place to pull over and i wasn' sure we could STOP..lar got out felt the brakes and they were HOT so we sat still for over an hour while they cooled...we had just had new brakes put on a couple of days before and lar said it was because they had been broken in...
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