Gary RV_Wizard
Site Team
We are visiting Anne & Jim Dorough in Pie Town, NM for a few days. Anne & Jim have just moved into the house they had erected on their 12 acres up on Elk Ridge. It's a zillion miles from anywhere (80 miles to a supermarket - 120 to the nearest Home Depot) but the view of the mountains defies description. Looking off the still incomplete front deck there is a [hopefully] dormant volcano as well as several other peaks. Elk bugle in the distance and at night there are more stars than can be counted.
It was several miles on washboard gravel road to get the motorhome up here - not a difficult drive but painfully slow to avoid shaking everything in the coach to pieces. Much easier in a car - can make 30 mph easy, but I had to hold the coach to 8-15 mph for the entire distance. And there was a 50A hook-up awaiting our arrival.
Today we drove to Datil, a thriving wide spot in the road (hwy 60) with a combination gas station, general store, butcher shop and restaurant, and only 25 miles away (once we reached the highway, that is). There we had an excellent hamburger (made on the premises - no Sysco packaged patties here) and then bought some T bone steaks at the meat counter. They have huge pieces of cow on display in the cooler and you tell the lady what you want and she saws it off for you. It's range fed local beef (or pork) and they also make their own sausage. What kind of sausage, you ask? Whatever kind the meat lady made that week - she just labels it sausage and to take your chances. Nothing fancy - just plain food.
I'll try to get some pictures that we do the view justice and post them later.
It was several miles on washboard gravel road to get the motorhome up here - not a difficult drive but painfully slow to avoid shaking everything in the coach to pieces. Much easier in a car - can make 30 mph easy, but I had to hold the coach to 8-15 mph for the entire distance. And there was a 50A hook-up awaiting our arrival.
Today we drove to Datil, a thriving wide spot in the road (hwy 60) with a combination gas station, general store, butcher shop and restaurant, and only 25 miles away (once we reached the highway, that is). There we had an excellent hamburger (made on the premises - no Sysco packaged patties here) and then bought some T bone steaks at the meat counter. They have huge pieces of cow on display in the cooler and you tell the lady what you want and she saws it off for you. It's range fed local beef (or pork) and they also make their own sausage. What kind of sausage, you ask? Whatever kind the meat lady made that week - she just labels it sausage and to take your chances. Nothing fancy - just plain food.
I'll try to get some pictures that we do the view justice and post them later.
