Laundry Day

Today we are in Grants, NM, a quaint little desert town about 20 or so miles from our camp at Blue Water Lake SP.  The town is fairly charming although the frequent use of bars on the windows and doors of local establishments seems to indicate that it is a fairly depressed area.  The roads are bumpy and ill-kept and there are a number of abandoned buildings and storefronts.  The people here seem to be mostly friendly although we've yet to encounter more than a half-dozen locals since yesterday. 

The POD (plan of the day) is to get our laundry done and restock our food and camping supplies at the local WalMart (blech!) and perhaps find some wifi to do some more updates at the local public library.  At the moment we are getting our clothes and sleepgear pushed through the driers at the Capri Laundry (look us up on Google Maps to see right where we are!).  For a place where water should be at a premium, the laundry machines here sure are cheap.  They're about half the cost of doing laundry in RI, although I guess higher water costs are augmented by much lower fuel costs (assuming that the machines and hot water are run on street gas). 

Overall it should be a relaxing day of just catching up on some cleaning and maintenance.  We will hopefully post more later on about our midwest drive and first days in the southwest. 

Till later!
RhodeKill Rob

P.S.  I'm experimenting with the Blogger app I recently installed on my phone, which allows photos to be added in the post.  I'm not sure where the added pic will appear on here, but we'll see.  As there is no provision for adding captions, it was a photo I took during our drive into the southwest just around sunrise.  Yes Miriam was sleeping at the time and no, I didnt crash while taking it (yay!)