CDT 2024 - Day 5, a Zero Day in Lordsburg

Resupply, consider alternate routes, catchup on news

Zebras running loose back at home in North Bend, WA.

This morning Runningbird got coffee and breakfast in bed while snuggling with Beau. We spent the better part of the pre-noon hours unpacking and repacking her backpack and removing some unnecessary items. Checking texts and emails we jumped into several active conversations with our neighbors about the news of four zebras that had escaped from a trailer at the freeway exit for our neighborhood in North Bend. It was crazy. Lots of photos, stories of folks stopping to help keep them from running onto the freeway and getting hurt. Some people had experience with horses and helped coral two or three of them.

In the afternoon we walked the short two blocks to Main Street with Beau and got him an ice cream cone at McDonalds (of course we each had one too). From there we walked to the grocery store for a few things before walking back to our camp. In the afternoon we pulled out my map books and Runningbird brought up her Far Out app and we made notes and set up our tentative plan for the next several days. As we have in past years, we try to keep the first several legs between meeting up fairly short until hiker girl and support guy get back into their groove. We made notes about mileage and options for alternate routes considering river crossings, etc. By late afternoon we had a decent plan to get us to the Colorado border. Or at least closer. Good enough for now and one day at a time.

Neither one of us felt like cooking today so we walked back to Main St. and checked out option two of the restaurants. "Los Victors" was a drive-thru, eat-in, or take-out California Mexican food restaurant and we opted for the take-out. Some of the stuff on their menu they did have, some they didn't. Peggy opted for a custom version of a Huarache (a shoe?) and I went conservative with a bean and cheese burrito. My first choice was the three rolled chicken tacos but they were out of chicken. I was reminded that we were in a very small southern New Mexico town.

On returning to the KOA we met with one of our neighbors who had a very cute little T@B 320 very much like our rig but a tad bit smaller. Nice folks from Arizona and they told us a bit about the gatherings that many T@B owners participate about the country. We are going to try and hook up with them again when we are in Colorado next month. After our little visit there we retired to our T@B for dinner and a glass of wine. Our dinners weren't too bad and we enjoyed a quiet evening. Runningbird decided since it was a Zero day for her she could enjoy two showers today since it would take at least that to get all the dirt and sand of the previous three days off her. Also the hot water would feel pretty good on her sore muscles. End of a zero day.

Get your booze from the "Liquor Art" store, not the grocery store. Lordsburg, NM.