Pullin' Chocks

A late post; better late than never?

Elephant Butte, New Mexico

It was a short and busy visit to Elephant Butte.  We lucked out and found the Rio Lago Park within walking distance of pretty much everything EB has to offer, plus we made a great friend in the owner John.  John is a retired DoD guy and he was familiar with many of the operations Gari & I supported at WSMR.  We looked around EB for a week then headed out for the Valley of Fires in central New Mexico on the east side of the (Sacramento) mountains. 

Above is our building lot.  The house that adjoins us in the back belongs to an architect from Albuquerque.  It is for sale for a cool $350K, we understand it started at $550K a year ago so a good buy now!  The dark part on the right is an RV garage.  :-)

From our lot we can just see the famous Elephant Butte that rises out of the reservoir.  That is the small double hump toward the right side of the picture below.  We call this our peek-a-boo view.  I think a deck on the roof is in order to improve the view!  We might have to accomplish some pruning too :-)

 This is the view of Turtle Back Mountain from near our lot.

There we are set up next to the General Store.

Right in the heart of downtown EB!

 A less sophisticated dwelling...

 A more sophisticated dwelling, sonmething for everyone at EB!

Flora

Spring is in the air

From a hike down to the lake.

 The RVers drive right down to the lakes edge.  They also launch boats from anywhere!

For now we say farewell to EB....