Friday March 15th
Adios to Las Cruces; on to Albuquerque area. Las Cruces to Albuquerque is a straight shot up I-25. We stopped at a rest area about noon and I noticed that one of my NEW tires was low. I checked it and it only had about 35psi as opposed to 80 psi in the others. I have a 12v Compressor for such an event but the 12v cord is not long enough for the 3ft hose to reach the tire while the truck is hooked to the trailer hitch. That meant unhooking the trailer and backing up the truck to the tire and then adding air. Must have picked up a nail or something in that tire. While the 12v compressor was huffing and puffing I walked over to a monument commemorating the El Camino Real, that was the road form Santa Fe to Mexico City when New Mexico was still part of Mexico. It took that 12v pump about 30 minutes to get the pressure up to 80 psi, but it did it, and once we were hooked up again we were on our way. The leak appears to be pretty slow since the next day it was still between 75 and 80 psi.
We got to Albuquerque about rush hour but traffic was moving pretty well and we got to Bernalillo (on the N side) about 6pm.
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