Navajo Lake State Park, New Mexico – Day 3

We’ve been parked here for the last three days. I’ve been resting and recuperating from the terrible accident of 22 days ago. I’m still wrapping my chest with an elastic bandage and still taking codeine-based pain medication. Mary’s been busy packing for her trip back home. Yup…three days to pack…she’s collected/purchased a lot of stuff in the last six weeks.

This morning we’ll drive the motorome the about 35 miles to Farmington, New Mexico where she will catch the 7:00 AM Albuquerque Airport Shuttle tomorrow morning. It’s supped to be 96 degrees in Farmington today…YUK! As soon as she departs I’ll head for higher ground for cooler temperatures.

Here are a few photos that I took during our walks here at the park…

As always you may left click upon an image to see an enlarged view and then click once again to see an even larger view…

It’s been a good stay here…other than temperatures in the low 90’s. I’m hoping to get Mary back by August 1st. In the meantime, I’ll continue with my rest and recuperation with a little sightseeing along the way.

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Navajo Lake State Park, New Mexico – Day 2

We are still parked here. Thank goodness we have air-conditioning!

Mary continues busy in packing for her trip back home. She’ll begin her trip by catching the Albuquerque Airport Shuttle in Farmington…about 35 miles from here on Tuesday. She has collected/purchased an amazing amount of stuff and is trying to figure out how to get it all back home. The motorhome is not scheduled to arrive back there until  November 2013.

I’m staying busy here by trying to rest and recoup from my injuries of the terrible accident that occurred three weeks ago today. Lot’s of reading. some computer time and playing with my new camera.

Here’s an example of the zoom capacity…

As always you may left click upon an image to see an enlarged view and then click once again to see an even larger view…

Looking out the dinette window…look at just about center at the top of the ridge and you’ll see a small squarish rock outcropping…

A little closer view…

and a closer view…

Pretty neat, huh? These photos do not use the full extent of the 30x optical zoom. Another 30x zoom is also available in digital zoom. All photos are hand-held…no tripod was used.

Here is a panorama looking southeast along the nearby river…

We plan to drive the motorhome to Farmington tomorrow where we’ll do laundry in preparation for Mary’s 7:00 AM departure Tuesday morning. Temperatures here are in the low to 90’s…to danged hot for me! As soon as Mary departs, I’ll head for higher ground.

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Navajo Lake State Park, New Mexico – Day 1

We arrived here the day before yesterday.

We are here for two reasons. The first being that it is only about 35 miles from Farmington, New Mexico and this is from where Mary will take the Albuquerque Airport Shuttle to catch a flight back home next Tuesday. The second reason is that we can have an electrical connection here for only $4 a day to run our air conditioner to help deal with the 90 degree temperatures.

Here’s a photo of the two-mile very washboardy road we had to take to get here…

As always you may left click upon an image to see an enlarged view and then click once again to see an even larger view…

Our campsite…

The view from our dinette window…

This state park has two campgrounds…Pine on the lake shore and Cottonwood along the river shore.. we’re in Cottonwood.

While here Mary will be digging out all of the stuff she wants to take home and start her packing process. I’m trying to rest and recuperate from our recent accident 20 days ago. I’m still wrapping my chest with an elastic bandage. I took the last of my codine-based pain medication this morning.

We expect to leave here Monday morning, go to Farmington to do laundry and get Mary on her shuttle Tuesday morning.

All original material Copyright – Jim Jaillet 2012
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