Tuesday, February 09, 2021

Lazy Last Day at the Monticello Road BLM area.

 Didn't really get much done in the morning, was content to just sit and listen to my current e-book and putter around the URRV and the Sammy.

I did pull the plugs on Mariko and the color of the plugs look good now.  I had thought they were too white or lean before but now they're a faint caramel color so things should be good with them.

I did go for one last drive in the northern trails of the Elephant Butte State Park, checking out trails I'd not wandered down before....nothing earthshaking found but here's a couple of pics that turned out:



Spent the rest of the afternoon packing up what I could so I wouldn't have much to do in the colder morning temperatures tomorrow.  Yagi went up on the front rack, I stowed away the guest tent, and readied things on Mariko for the morning.

We had us a pretty good post-sunset cloud lighting tonight:





The next camp site is tentatively planned for a BLM dispersed camping area to the east of Las Cruces, NM.  I've not been there before and don't really want to drive 5+ hours to the Arizona border tomorrow.

Also debating whether to turn east instead of west from Las Cruces later on, heading towards Texas instead to see what there is to see you know?


6 comments:

SonjaM said...

Beautiful pics... again, Dom. How about switching on Sammy's lights for a change while taking the picture? She looks a little in the dark.

RichardM said...

Texas since you don't need to worry about the Ural breaking down...

redlegsrides said...

Thanks SonjaM....will do re the lights on Mariko.

redlegsrides said...

Texas is definitely exerting a pull on me RichardM....

CCjon said...

You are not too far from Plains, TX, There are interesting lore in west Texas, unfortunately everything is far apart.
Second Sonja's suggestio0n, try with lights on, or maybe just the running lights not the high beams.

redlegsrides said...

Thanks for the info CCjon.... And yeah there's a fair bit of driving in between locations in Western Texas! I'll use the lights on the Sammy as suggested by you and SonyaM.,.