Aug. 30 & 31

Friday - slept in.  Out for a walk, then breakfast.  Decided to just stay put for the day, it was heating up fast.  We had hoped to go boating here, but the lake is very low, the locals told us it has gone down over the last 4 years.  We had a site with no shade and this was a hot day in the desert.  The motorhome tried to stay cool, but barely kept up.  We went out and sat in the shade and breeze in the afternoon at an empty site near ours.  95+ with 37% humidity, but we saw it was worse at home with those temps and a dew point in the 70's.  Yuck!  Luckily here, when the sun started setting, it cools down noticeably.

Our hot campsite - but great sunset view

Saturday - up early to move the motorhome.  Our original reservation was for only two nights, there was no availability for rest of the weekend.  But, we watched the website all day Friday and two sites opened up, one with shade.  We grabbed it for rest of the weekend.  We had considered moving to a RV park closer to the Carlsbad Caverns, but found they were considerably more expensive and none of them had very good reviews.  We got moved and set up, then had breakfast.  Decided to stay put again.  Worked on a few organizing things and watched football.  Go Blue, Go Jacks!  And, we did the restringing of our big window blind that had broke just before we left Sioux Falls!
We watched more campers and TENTS arrive and set up.  How they stay in tents in this heat we just can't imagine. Many of them were hanging tarps on their picnic shelters to block the sun.  We enjoyed more of Lois's Texas brisket for supper (it's like heaven) and then went for a walk and another sunset.  We visited with one of the campers that works for an oil company and is headed up to Williston, ND this week.  His company rents rooms in one of the hotels there, keeping the rooms even when they don't have someone there, because housing is so hard to find.