Back in Roswell Again

Spring break started on Mustang Island on Saturday, March 12th, and things were heating up down on the beach literally.  There were hundreds of people camping out down there, mostly teenager/college kids, driving up and down in their vehicles, playing volleyball, guys in gorilla suits, large pickup trucks with equally large smoker BBQs in tow, and more than a smattering of large Confederate flags being flown on the back of pickups and on the dunes.

 
We left Mustang Island on Saturday, March 12th, and headed for Ingram, Texas, which is about 12 miles NW of Kerrville, where we stayed about a month before.  The RV park in Ingram was actually a working pecan orchard with large mature trees, and they had made a smaller RV park at the back of the property by the river, so it was very quiet and serene, with birds singing and deer romping around in the trees.  It's a little early for the leaves to be on the trees yet, though, and the temperatures were definitely lower than we have been used to on the island!

We then drove about 4 hours NW and stayed at Fort Stockton overnight at the same RV park we had stayed in on the way down.  This is the first time we have stayed in a place we knew, and it was far less stressful getting there because we knew where it was and what to expect.

When we arrived at Trailer Village in Roswell the next afternoon, it was like returning home.  We stayed about a week here in January on the way down to Texas, checking out the old stomping grounds of Billy the Kid in Lincoln and Fort Sumner, and we had made friends with the family who owns the RV park we stayed in called Trailer Village.  When we pulled up at the office, one of the owners came out and said, "Didn't you see the sign?  It said 'No Suntanned Gypsies,'"  Ha, ha. 

It has been great staying here and visiting with them again.  The weather has been nice and hot during the day (80 to 90 degrees F.) but, being the desert, it tends to cool down at night to around 5 degrees C., something that we are adjusting to after the steady and humid temperatures of Mustang Island.  Spring has arrived here, though, and the trees are all leafing out and the blackbirds are singing in the trees. 

We will be heading out of here on Saturday to head up north to Albuquerque and over to Gallup, New Mexico for a few days to check things out up there.