So Long Texas - Hello New Mexico!!!

After three driving days, we actually managed to leave the state of Texas and cross over in to New Mexico. I forgot that they changed to mountain time as soon as you cross the border. My phone apparently knew that, however, my car is not quite as smart. :-)

Before leaving Alpine, TX, we tried to make a reservation in Brantley Lake State Park on Sunday on the Internet without success and I called the reservation desk on Monday to find out that the park supposedly was full. So on Tuesday we stopped at the edge of Carlsbad to decide where to stay next and Doug came up with a really good idea. How about calling the park directly and finding out just how much they are really booked up? Guess what, state parks have an area that is on a "first come first serve" basis and most of those spots were empty. So we drove up to check it out and check out this amazing sunset view out of the back window of our rig the day we arrived.

We did, however, have a small disappointment when we arrived. We purchased last year an annual New Mexico park pass for the rig and the truck, but now we also have the car and unfortunately, it can not be included in this pass. It still is a good deal to stay at state parks, but it put a little damper on our spirits. Come to find out the next day when we went to Living Desert Zoo and Garden State Park, there is a huge gathering of Airstream owners in town and a spot in a RV park would have been hard to find. But more about that later.