Day 13 Sunday January 25, 2009

Well, we actually got an early start today! We never unhooked the trailer from the Suburban, so we eliminated 60% of the time eating operations needed to get going. Besides, I told Cathey when she started getting ready, that if we got on the road soon, we could be in New Mexico tonight. What normally takes 45 minutes only took 15 today! We thought we would get breakfast in Alpine but apparently all the breakfast places were on the east end of town because we saw none going west. The next town was about 25 miles and it also had nothing that was open. The next town was Marfa where we found a supermarket (loosely speaking) and bought a few groceries including some breakfast items; but, by this time the Subway down the street had opened and we were able to have sub sandwiches for breakfast. We kept trucking and by noon we were in Van Horn, TX where we hooked up with I-10 again and before long we were going through El Paso and then into New Mexico. We checked in at the first RV Resort we came to, set-up and then went to a late lunch at a wonderful Mexican restaurant in Mesilla. Before we got back we got a call from the RV Resort saying that we had water coming out of our trailer. Fortunately, someone turned off the water but there was still a big puddle under the trailer and water still dripping from numerous places. I went and borrowed a shop-vac from the office but first I had to locate the leak and that took awhile. It happened to be right behind the kitchen stove and the access to that area was through a 4 inch opening covered b a wood board behind the stove. Looking there, I could see water flowing but could not definitively see the leak. So we vacumed up the water and sponged up what we could with towels and then went to do laundry. The facilities here are beautiful so it was a pleasure doing the laundry and we also took advantage of the shower facilities since we were without running water.