Flight of the Monarch, Voyage 3, Day 5


Star Date 7-10-2016

Again the day started cool except it did not deter the flies, house that is.  There were several trillion of them last night and this morning trying to get into our ears, eyes, landing on our lips, landing on our skin time and time again in the same spots. Brenda was doing moves at the picnic table that scientists would say that it would be impossible for the human body to do in that many directions at once. You see, for each muscle that contacts to move a limb in a certain direction there are muscles to move the limb back to the original position. Both muscles cannot operate at the same time.  Wrong!

Everyone knows of the alien craft that crash landed near Roswell in 1947. They brought the flies, and several politicians.

But I digress, back to traveling. We headed north on US 285 and we stayed on it all the way to Interstate 25 east of Santa Fe New Mexico. We then turned east for 3 miles on the feeder road  to a KOA.  We stayed at this same KOA in 1994 while on a motorcycle trip. People would always come up to look at the motorcycle and our little pop up camper we towed. One gentlemen we talked to was on to his way to an interview for a telephone contractor job in Santa Fe NM. He had just been laid off from AT&T. He had worked for them for many years and felt betrayed. But he did have a good attitude and I'm sure he would find work. So, this was "the out of work tour". We talked to another gentleman a week earlier that had lost his job and was on his last motorcycle tour before he would have sell his motorcycle. He was in his late 50's. Enough of that.

The KOA guy that led us into our camping spot today was also a motorcycle rider.  He was from the east coast and while on a motorcycle trip 20 years ago with friends and they had camped here.. He never left. He fell in love with the high desert and couldn't face the east coast any longer. So he applied for a job at this KOA, bought a camping trailer, moved his family here. His Harley has in excess of 135,000 miles on the clock.

The flies didn't follow us here and hummingbirds replaced them. There have many feeders in campground. The hummers are nesting in the trees and fussing and fighting. I'm sure Brenda will be posting photos soon.

Into the unknown tomorrow. Maybe one day more here or move to campground north of Santa Fe.

 Pretty day, great roads and good company.

183 miles traveled today
929 total for the trip

/s/ First Officer Julio