The New Mexico Plan

[pamela]

My husband and I dreamed for years of selling our condo, buying a motorhome and traveling throughout the US. We love the southwest, and particularly the four corners area, and visited that area several times over the past few years. In October, we sold our condo and traveled to Texas to buy our motorhome and started living our dream. We spent the winter in Texas and finally made it to southeast New Mexico two days ago. Yay!

When we were planning all of this, we came up with something we called "the New Mexico plan." We prefer state parks to private parks due to the big, private spaces in a natural setting compared to the "parking lot" feel of most private parks. State parks are usually more expensive though because you don't get breaks on weekly or monthly stays. New Mexico, however, has the best deal in the country for state parks. If you buy an annual pass, for around $230.00, you can stay in an electric and water site for just 4 dollars a night. We love New Mexico anyway so our plan is to spend several months a year here saving money for more extensive travel during the other months. We're so excited to finally be here.

I know I'm kind of rambling but I just wanted to say hi to the New Mexico group and, hopefully get some travel tips. I'll probably have tons of questions, too, about roads and routes and sights to see. We're in Hobbs now and will probably leave Thursday for either Roswell or Carlsbad or maybe Artesia. We don't usually travel more than about a hundred miles at a time and try to spend at least a week at each stop. I started a thread like this in the Texas group a few weeks ago and got some amazing tips so I thought I'd try that again here. This is more of a lifestyle than a vacation so we don't always hit the hot tourist spots. Not opposed to them though, so I'm open to any suggestions. We've been here several times before but mostly along I-40 and points north of I-40. We've never been to the southern parts so this is all new to us. We're going to be practically living here over the next few years so we don't have to hit everything at once.


So anyway... hi! I can't wait to see more of your beautiful state. If it's okay, I'll update this thread as we move to different areas. For now, I'm mostly wondering about the southeast corner around Hobbs, Carlsbad, Roswell, etc. Thanks in advance! Sorry this was so long. I'm ridiculously excited to finally be here.