Lubbock to Canyon – needs pix

Sunday, March 28, 2010

The wind had died down this morning to about 25 mph out of the north.  It was hitting us almost head-on so it wasn’t too bad.  When it hits on the side it can tend to push you out of your lane and can be much more dangerous. Fortunately we only had to drive about 120 miles today to get to our campground just outside of Canyon and the terrain was as flat as southern Manitoba.  As a matter of fact it looks very similar to Manitoba in the spring,with the trees just starting to leaf out and the dry grass in the ditches just starting to green up.

We arrived at Palo Duro RV Park just before noon.  The sites are very long but close together and seems to be very well cared for.  It is also just 8 miles away from the Grand Canyon of Texas – the Palo Duro Canyon. 

We went into the Palo Duro Canyon this afternoon and it was somewhat over-rated.  Perhaps nicer colours than the Grand Canyon but certainly not as GRAND! Only about 800 feet at the deepest point and not nearly as long.  There are a couple of small streams flowing through it – and one that we actually crossed at a low water crossing point that actually had water in it.  (Perhaps 1 or 2 inches at most.)

We were just watching the local news, (10:50 PM, 2010-03-28) apparently there was a 4.3 earthquake just north of Carlsbad, New Mexico.  Our tour guide on the King’s Palace Tour of the Carlsbad Caverns had told us that this was supposedly a very stable geological area and hadn’t experienced an earthquake for some time.  Hmmm?

Monday, March 29, 2010

We’re still having problems with the trailer brakes.  I spent most of the day on-line looking at various RV forums and Truck forums trying to figure it out.  I thought it may be a flakey magnet on the electric brakes so we went to see if we could make an appointment at a local RV Service Centre.  A tech there said, it isn’t likely the magnets – they’ve had a couple of similar issues where the truck is the problem and requires a new program.  So reluctantly we took it to a GM dealership where they spent a couple of hours trying to diagnose the problem on the trunk.  The tech finally found a high resistance in the ground wire from the controller and replaced it just before they closed at 6:00 PM.  Just hope that this fixes the problem.

We drove around Canyon just after dinner and it is a nice little university town.  Tomorrow we start our homeward trek.