Albuquerque

Sunday

Another day at the KOA in Albuquerque. Watched some football. Last weekend our teams were four for four. This week didn’t go so well. Only the Longhorns won. Colorado, the Broncos, and the Boys all lost. We thought if we flew each football flag at the right time our teams couldn’t lose.

Got some chores done. There is always indoor sorting to do. Did some of that. Time to check the tires. Several times a year we have to start the big motor to run the compressor and top off all the tires. It doesn’t take much. We got nitrogen put in all the tires a while back. Nitrogen doesn’t bleed out as fast as normal air does. Periodically, though, we hook the air hose to each of the tires and one at a time let each one come up to the pressure of our air tanks, slightly below 110 pounds. Don’t want to drive on underinflated tires and wear them out.

At the same time we do the tires, we do the batteries. The chassis batteries are sealed and seem to run forever. The house batteries are new, installed last January. We need to slide out the battery drawer, rinse them off, and top them off about as often as we do the tires. Got that done too.

Tomorrow, off to the satellite repair facility to swap out some parts. They told us they could probably do the job in a day, but we’d better allow two just in case. We did. After that, there is no more room at the campground for us. Every place in town is booked for the balloon festival in October.