Jacqueline’s Jaunts

26 May 2025, Memorial Day, Albany, Georgia to Andersonville RV Park, Andersonville, Georgia Jeeps – 1 (ours) Before we left Albany, we decided to walk to the park office and tell whoever was there how beautiful their park was. It is one of the nicest we have stayed at. The owners, a husband-and-wife team, were so kind and thankful that we loved our stay. We talked for about twenty minutes. They have good friends who live south of Portland. They would love to visit Oregon someday. I don’t know why we didn’t get their names. Let’s call them John and Jan.  We talked about the ducks and geese in the pond. John told us about a husband and wife who had a fight and lived in the area. The husband took the wife’s pet duck and dropped it off in the pond about four months ago. The wife came down a few days later and tried to rescue her duck, but had no luck. John and Jane told her she could come back the next day and try again.  The woman tried to catch her duck by using a net that Jane ...

08 April 2025, Alamogordo/White Sands KOA Journey   Goodbyes took a bit by the time we hugged Kenny’s Family and thanked them for a fantastic time.  Today’s destination is Alamogordo, New Mexico, to visit the White Sands National Park. It was a three-hour drive to the RV park.  The drive was boring, consisting of desert sagebrush and cacti. We loved how the rig took the foothills. It was so much better than our last RV, which was gas. We arrived at the Alamogordo/White Sands KOA Journey in excellent time. The site was nice, with a clean BBQ, a table, and a bench swing.  We only had today, so we quickly settled and drove to White Sands National Park. It was fifteen minutes from the KOA. We each took our own Jeeps just in case one of us wanted to leave earlier.  Before we left town, a significant accident occurred. Both sides of the highway were closed, and we and all the diesel trucks had to make a considerable detour. It was about a couple of miles out of our wa...

07 April 2025, Silver City, New Mexico We both slept well. Today was exploration day. We all jumped in our Jeeps and followed Kenny and Vicky to Pinos Altos. It’s an old mining town and is considered haunted. We were able to walk through the old museum and gift shop. What fun! Vicky talked The Buckhorn Restaurant into opening so we could walk through it. The staff was getting ready for dinner. The Opera house is next door; you can enter it from The Buckhorn. The community still uses it for plays. We would have loved to eat at The Buckhorn, but we had places to see! I posted many photos because I had a hard time deciding what not to include.  Fort Bayard was the next place. Many of the buildings are still standing, but they are in a state of disrepair. There is one street with large homes for officers, and one house is set up for tours, but is closed today. There are still six or so standing. Kenny said the town is in the process of exploring ways to restore the area. The old movie ...