Thursday, October 02, 2008

Have Arrived in Santa Fe, New Mexico

We landed finally this afternoon in the Elks Lodge in Santa Fe, NM and what a nightmare finding the place. Dave was leading, of course with the GPS, and Bob ended up getting stopped by a red light. We slowed down trying to wait for them but nowhere to pull over to, so Jackie and I kept talking on the walkie talkies because Bob's CB Radio isn't that good when you get to far away. Anyway, Dave missed the right turn and we had to go up to the next block so we were trying to tell them to stay to the right and follow the road but cars were backed up and they couldn't get over. Once we got back on the road we should have been on all of a sudden we saw the Elks sign and there was no way we could make the turn into the driveway. We turned at the next street and pulled over when we could, I got out and ran back down to the street to see if I could see Bob and Jackie and talk to them on the walkie talkie. I got a few words in and then the radio went dead. Dave called Bob on the cell phone and told him what he had to do and what the cross streets were. We had an open street on our left so Dave said he was going to back a u-turn and I asked are you are sure you can make one and he said NO but would try and if he couldn't he would just go straight down the street on our left. Well, he couldn't make the u-turn when we were 1/2 way thru and turned real hard to the right to go down that street on our left, which now is on our right. We made the right but it ended up being a cul-de-sac, Dave drove very slow and got very close to the mail boxes, even a guy up on his roof had to stop and watch this move, but we managed to make it thru the cul-de-sac, get back up on the tiny road and made a left into the Elks which was on top of a hill. I ran to the back of the hill, were you could see the road to watch for Bob and Jackie and I kept trying the walkie talkie. Next thing I know I see them coming down the road, they passed the Elks driveway and I'm yelling and trying to get there attention, even the cars that were driving by that saw me trying to get their attention started honking and them and pointing to me. They finally saw me and said they had to turn around again, when they came back by they managed to get to the driveway and get parked. They said they drove right on by and never saw the Elks sign and ended up in Mexico, actually what looked like Mexico, small streets, houses right on the road, hanging trees ect. What they had done was drive down to Old Town Santa Fe, too funny. Then Jackie said their bedroom slide was coming out when they turned corners, NOT FUNNY, but sure enough Bob had to re-insert a pin into his slide, thank goodness it never came all the way out.
After the guys got the coach fixed, oh by the way, we found out what was wrong with the lights on our car not working. One thing was Dave when we 1st got to the State Park in Littleton had by mistake let the electric cord hang down and that shorted the wires out. Then we ended up calling Monaco and they helped with which spark plug was out on the RV to make the car lights work.
Anyway, we drove down into down town Santa Fe, really neat town tons of things to see, it is a artsy crafty place and lots of sculptures.
Tomorrow we head out to the Balloon Festival in Albuquerque and hopefully the weather stays warm like it has, pray for no rain.

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