Morning on the Mississippi

Well, after a fun day of Easter egg-hunting and meeting for business with Durango Friends, we tended to getting ready and got on the road southward and eastward Wednesday morning.

We made it to Santa Rosa, NM, that night, where we found our little Casita dwarfed by the big rigs all over the Santa Rosa RV Campground. We did enjoy their facilities and they have a scrumptious BBQ in the evening.

I seem to be managing to do everything wrong that can possibly be done with the Casita. I carelessly backed into the Subaru as we were leaving home, so we got the lens replaced in Albuquerque, discovering that the backup lights weren't working, after jus having had the lights worked on.

Thursday I found myself having to straddle a piece of truck tire in our lane, traffice not allowing me to swing around it. That broke a piece of plumbing under the trailer, so part of our time in Chandler was spent getting that replaced.

Fortunately, we still had plenty of time with Sandy's daughter's family to go with them to the property they just purchased and to go to the Wizard of Oz performance Sandy's grandson was in. What a show! It was a huge production, with lots of student performers and costumes and sets.

Can't help noting that the cast and audience didn't look like the population I see around Chandler; no African-Americans in the show and the only one I saw in the audience left before the intermission. De facto segregation?

We left Chandler Sunday morning and got to West Memphis, where we're in the Tom Sawyer RV Campground. It's down on the Mississippi River and we sat on the levee at sunset and watched killdeer mating displays and barges going up and down the river. Again, we feel like a mouse in an elephant herd!

Oh, and the spigot broke off the water tank, the right turn light on the Casita doesn't work (probably because of the wire hanging down from the Jeep) and, while I did get the hot heater lit and working, it was overflowing.

So, I guess we'll try to get everything put right when we get to Asheville tomorrow. TV