It's time to say goodbye to Elephant Butte and move on.
While I was getting things ready Bob drove out to the local gas station to fuel the truck. When we left for Florida diesel was $3.14 a gallon. When we returned it was $3.19. While he was pumping it jumped to $3.39! Lucky for us he wasn't two minutes later in getting to the pumps. Twenty cent increase! We're hearing by summer it will be $4.00 or more a gallon. I can see where we'll have to get to a park and stay for at least two weeks and move just fifty miles up the road and stay for two more. Stop the insanity!
We took our time getting packed up and road ready. We said so long to the very nice people we met in Cedar Cove RV Park and finally made it out to the highway around 11:30. We had a pretty easy run today as we only traveled about 150 miles. We headed towards Deming, New Mexico. It seems like a central place to be since it is in the middle of several places we'll take day trips to.
It didn't take us long to get set up and as soon as we were I drove two city blocks to the local Hundred Dollar Store. We had nothing in the house to eat so I had a pretty big grocery shopping to do. One hundred and thirty nine dollars later I made my way back home. I've got enough for eleven dinnertime meals.
After steak sandwiches (homemade) for dinner we kicked back and watched TV for the evening.
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