Albuquerque

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

  

We arrived in Albuquerque on Thursday, August 24 staying at the Elks Lodge for one night moving to the KOA on Friday for a month.  My son Bill arrived around 10 p.m. from Virginia staying in town until Tuesday, August 29.  My daughter Laurie from Texas was due to arrive on Friday, but due to the Harvey Hurricane hitting the golf coast of Texas and parts further inland, she did not come.  While her home  just south of Austin had only rain and so far no flooding, plane travel was questionable and she also works for emergency preparedness and worked all weekend at the EOC in San Marcos.

 Both kids were to be here for a surprise 80^th birthday party for their Dad held on Saturday.   We missed having Laurie here but had a nice visit with my son whom we have not seen for two years.  We will see Laurie in October when we are in Texas for October through December, God willing and there is space for us at our resort at that time.  In previous years, many of the campgrounds and resorts neighboring communities have housed evacuees in HUD trailers until they could return home.  This may be the case this year as well though Kerrville (where we are going) is quite a ways distance from the Houston area. 

For now we are comfortably set up in our back in site under a nice big tree which shades the RV a part of the day in our still rather warm days here.  This afternoon we had a real gully washer with pea size hail and rivers of fast moving water flowing in front of the RV and also behind us in the street outside the campground.  Lots of thunder, but no lightening and considerable wind.  It lasted about 30 minutes.  Since we have seen very little if any rain all summer, we enjoyed watching the storm.  This is still the monsoon season here so we will probably have more of these afternoon rain storms. 

Next week we begin our semi annual doctor visits and hope to get together with friends and family in town.