10 days in Moriarty, NM!

The temperature reached a low of 29F (-1.66C) when we left Milan, so I was glad that I hadn’t packed away my winter nightie!  The weather stayed cold for days and we even had snow!  That was the day our friends, Ellen and Tim arrived for their RV service.  

It hadn’t been our intention to stay in a gravel parking lot just outside Moriarty RV Sales and Service Center for so long with only electric - no water hook-up and no sewer outlet  - but, as mentioned before, plans change. We had water using our fresh water tank.

The town is small, about 40 miles east of Albuquerque, but we needed to have some maintenance work done on our Excel 5th wheel. This center is the No. 1 sales dealer in the states for these brands, so we made an appointment expecting to stay for a few days;  we set off 10 days later because we ordered a new fireplace and had to wait four days for it to arrive. 

I was resigned to missing the Royal Wedding but we’d been wanting to buy a flat screen TV for over a year.   It just happened that the day before the broadcast, we bought a 32” TV, which was installed professionally the same day, so I got up in the wee hours of the morning to watch the coverage and delighted that I did. The heavy old TV was given away. When everything went digital in June 2009 we couldn’t get any programs at all and rented DVD’s instead.  Now though, whenever we go to a new location, we have to retune the channels and change the time zone if necessary. We wondered why we couldn’t get PBS until Tim came over and retuned it for us. Thanks, Tim.  It's great that we can watch “Antique Roadshow” from both sides of the Atlantic now.

from right: Howard, Mel, Ellen and Tim

Apart from spending time inspecting new 5th wheels and learning to restring window blinds in the office, we spent nearly four days with Tim and Ellen Janicki, (who also have a blog) and had a marvelous time playing a strategic game called “Settlers of Catan”, which they taught us.  It really is addictive and we had a great time with them and look forward to being with them again, wherever that may be.