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20050511 Bernalillo NM Picture Link
Up early, thanks to the change to Mountain time, and out early with temps in the low 50's.
We went up US87 to Raton NM, to catch a view of Mount Capulin, a dormant cone volcano. It's really neat, a near-perfect cone. Just before and for a long ways after that, we saw antelope; there must have been a couple of hundred of them. A pheasant also took off from the side as we approached.
For several days, we've had strong winds, mostly out of the south. Today, a low north of us has caused us to have strong winds out of the southwest, and that's the direction we drove the rest of the day (down I-25).
The truck didn't like pulling the fifth-wheel into that wind at any sort of speed and showed that with high operating temperatures, despite the low 70's ambient. We got lousy mileage.
Maybe I was just looking for troubles where there were none, but I convinced myself that the thermostat could be only partly open by the indications it was giving. We arrived here early, so I went out and got it changed. It's a fairly simple system, thermostat-radiator-waterpump. The waterpump is nearly new. We'll see.
We ate after I returned, then drove around town (not too exciting, even though they call it "Coronado's Town"). We fueled up for tomorrow, bought a few things, and returned to the trailer.
We read our books until later in the evening, when I'm doing this set of notes.
It was a beautiful day, but I'll be really happy when these winds go away.
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