Hello everybody! My name is Russ.. I'm Kerry and we are The Roads We Roam.
We're a couple, living full-time in our Little Guy Max.
This week, we're at Elephant Butte State Park, just outside of Truth or Consequences New Mexico.
This is the view from our campsite at the South Monticello campgrounds. At night, we can
hear the coyotes howling in the distance....
Along these Roads We Roam, we find adventure through traveling, camping,
boondocking and exploring.
When traveling with an RV, you learn to really appreciate well thought out layouts at
gas stations. I know! This Valero in Deming, New Mexico is just off exit 82A
on the I-10 westbound. Plenty of room to maneuver around an RV fuel pump and free
dump station! Driving into our campground in Elephant Butte there are a
lot of free-range cows around..they are so cute! But be careful!
Alright, so last night we realized that we didn't have any heat coming out of this front duct here or
this vent here by the dinette however we were still getting heat out of the one
by the bed so we figured either one of the duct tubes came off or there's a
blockage we were able to lift up the bed and kind of peer under there real quick
and it does look like the duct slipped off of the furnace area it's a real pain
with our big pillow top 14-inch pillow top to get in so I'm gonna open up the
furnace area here and see if I can get at it any better I don't think I can I
really really really really don't want to mess with moving that big old
mattress okay first off we got to remove these
this heat vent will slide right out once you remove the screws there's one more
screw under the vent that you need to remove before removing the plastic cover
all right so this is the issue that we had this vent ducting had come off so we
just put that back on I think it actually ripped right here I'm gonna
snip that to get rid of that but went ahead and checked this one as well that
one's good all we had to do is remove a wood panel like this over here and then
we can get to that ducting. So we've talked before about how we have our mail
service and that we do that through that escapees. When we go to a different area
and we want to get our mail we contact them and tell them to forward it to
wherever we are the US Post Office has general delivery you contact the
location just double check to make sure that they accept the general delivery
find out any special rules that they may have usually it's just put general
delivery under your name and you have your mail forwarded there and you can go
in and pick it up all right guys we're coming here to get our general delivery
all right we got a big old package now we just picked up from general delivery
we tried doing it out of post net and packing out what you can do but they
charge you a small fee yeah usually around two to five bucks yeah okay I'm
gonna move this down so it's so high up okay pull them out yeah they seem small
this might be coffee cups we got ours I know yes
you can show your the other side so hashtag road crew on one side and then
there's Park right over here by these grasses and trees we stuff here
shit I'm back Shaw police put the emergency brake on
this is nice down here I think you can boondock down in this area too
take a look at the water look at Abbey's like come on let's go
we've been told this area gets very busy in the summer while it gets a bit chilly
we were glad to have the opportunity to explore and enjoy the speech area
this area has so much to offer if you just want to get away this last week the
temperatures have been colder than normal
they've been in the 50s each day but next week it's going to be back to
normal with temperatures in the mid 60s
you're about to witness one of our firsts that's right
while we've used our portable waste tank before we've never towed it with the
truck
it was kind of nerve-wracking at first because I didn't want it to come off
I kept looking at people as I drove past them seeing if they'd stop or stare or
say something but it worked out like a charm
Russ is feeling accomplished oh I have video evidence that Billie does mind when
you're gone! so yeah that was the first time we really like use I mean we've
used it before but this is the first time we towed it and I feel I feel
accomplished I feel my nose running it's cold outside cold and windy but no it
towed very well I was super nervous I was going like 5 miles an hour that's
all once we got it there dumped it it's all good so nice and easy
yeah very easy glad you didn't have to pick it up and put it in the back of the
tow yeah what there was full 100% full we didn't do it today if we would have
used it just a couple more times we'd have been in trouble
remember oh yeah alright everyone we're outside the Hamilton Military Museum
here in Truth or Consequences let's go check it out Wow guys for a small museum
this is pretty cool they've got quite a bit of stuff here they do allow you to
take pictures they do allow you to take video it's free all they ask you to do
is sign in on their guestbook wow she is stunning you know there's something
about the world war two women in uniform they're just gorgeous I know they're no
different than any other women or women in uniform for that matter but there's
just something so classy some amazing relics from some unbelievable relics in
here in my muddly detecting hobby these are things that I hunt and a lot of I
went in and visited the museum I'm a relic hunter metal detectorists and
that's been a hobby that I've been in for years and years and years and just
going in there and seeing some of the Indian wars Civil War Revolutionary War
artifacts and relics and then they also have an amazing set of World War two
memorabilia and relics the rest came out to the car and tell me how this museum
or this area was founded yeah so the family there that that gave a lot of the
artifacts the World War two artifacts they worked for a general who was from
the German side I guess he's one of the few generals high-ranking generals that
wasn't asked executed the only Journal that wasn't executed
the reason he wasn't executed was because he was the designer of the
Battle of the Bulge and when he passed away he gave them all of his World War
two I mean there's world war two German uniforms that are pristine this family
here and when he died this is all his stuff they donated to his family
same thing on you say there's a bunch of amazing stuff in there I highly suggest
anybody go there I was really surprised because it looks really small and
insignificant but it's one of the better museums I've been in anyways yeah it was
free all they asked for is for you to sign in we got this
safety first child magnetic locks now we're not worried about children we're
just worried about the wrestle yeah we're worried about about the drawers
and the cabinet staying shut while we're driving so these are magnetic and we
thought we'd give these a try now I'd like to say we came up with these on our
own actually you found them several weeks ago so actually no weeks before we
even started hmm I had suggested them to us and Russia said yeah well I was
worried about losing the magnetic race but then raylene yeah Thank You raylene
because I got some backup on this one well you know what it was I was like meh
you know I don't know how good they are but when I actually saw her video on
YouTube yeah they looked like they were solid
and they'd work so yes Thank You raylene we are gonna give it a shot we only
bought a four pack for now because we want to see if they work and our little
pricey if we can do that and not have to Bungie yeah I think that would be
fantastic yeah then you're gonna have to move outside and help me outside because
your dad will be done quick it's quickly I don't think these are gonna work then
all right guys we are going to install these and give them a shot we'll show
you that here in just a bit alright so we ins
all their safety magnetic locks we think this is going to take place of our
bungees we installed this piece in this piece and that's how it it activates
take the magnet put it behind it sucks that in and you're able to open now the
cool thing about this is once you remove the magnet it goes back to lock so you
don't have to keep setting that to lock it'll stay locked until you move this up
to LA unlocked and now you see it's red danger and this piece is secured well
everybody I hope you enjoyed the video and if you did please like and subscribe
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