Back Home In A Blizzard

Above, The Beast at Sky City RV Park before leaving this morning. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Finally, I stepped foot at home. It wasn't easy as snow storms caused the cancellation of my Wednesday flight to Albuquerque from Phoenix.

I spent some time trying to find an alternate flight to get to Albuquerque. When American Airlines canceled the flight, they re-booked me on another flight that was to leave Phoenix this morning at 12:50.

Not wanting to leave that late, I did some checking and found one that departs Phoenix at 7:45. It's a good thing I took that one, it was likely the last flight before more cancellations due to another storm coming into Albuquerque. It was lightly snowing when I arrived at Albuquerque. I went to the baggage claim office and my suitcase was sitting inside waiting for me.

The airport shuttle took me straight to my RV in the parking lot and I headed out. It was still lightly snowing in some spots but Interstate 40 was still drivable. I decided to get as further out of Albuquerque as possible and settled on staying at the Sky City Casino RV Park, 50 miles away.

Above, Sky City RV Park. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

When I arrived at the RV park, the office was closed with no means of doing a night registration there and no directions for registering. I figured I'd find a campsite and just pay for it the following morning. So, I settled in and got some sleep.

This morning, I found that registrations or the RV park is handled at the front desk of the casino's hotel. So I went there. The girl at the desk said they closed up their books for yesterday. I suggested that she just say I arrived after midnight and put it on today's date. She really didn't want to be bothered with it so she let me off gratis. Well, I did spend $50 on gasoline there (at $1.99/gallon).

It was snowing hard in spots and about 20 miles from Sky City, I turned off the highway and was going to sit it out. But, I thought that the snow could really pile up and I'd be stuck. So I headed off.

I drove at about 35 to 40 mph with my flashers on. When I approached the city of Grants, it tapered off and I was able to increase my speed a little.

I got home around 6:15 and there was about 2" of snow on the ground. Sierra was glad to have me back. The food feeder was still 3/4 full as well as the water feeder. Both did what they were supposed to do.