Saskia and Richard's RVing Adventures

So we have changed our RVing lifestyle for a slightly less sedentary and more industrious one.  However, it is not nearly as industrious as the lifestyle followed by the ancients, who lived here in the Americas first.  As previously described , their Puebloan lifestyle might be considered simple compared to ours, but they were none the less highly sophisticated according to their means and time, and the footsteps they left are awe inspiring.  You can read even more here  Of course, their simple lives changed in the 16 th Century, when those who first conquered the south-west of America, the Spaniards, arrived and eventually forcibly influenced the way of life of the indigenous peoples of the land they called New Mexico.  Some things change, but others don’t. Richard and I start the day around 8 am, by building the fire, to top up the central heating of the house.  Since moving here 5 weeks ago, we have had three snowfalls, and recently daytime temperatures have been as low as

I’ve become lazy.  It’s not just retirement. It’s these games you can play on the i-phone. I have an addictive nature, and I find myself playing solitaire and word games at every opportunity – first thing after I wake up, between chores (the few that I have), even while I’m watching TV. Yes, life has definitely slowed down in the last few months.  And those mobile app games are the least of it.  We have done with touring and sight-seeing, for this year at least. On leaving Santa Fe, and towing our fifth wheel trailer, the Jet, to Elephant Butte Lake, in the south of New Mexico, we began living the snowbird lifestyle. The RV resort we stayed in for six weeks, the longest we have spent in any RV park,   http://www.elephantbuttelakervresort.com/  , about a mile from the lake, the largest in New Mexico, had all the amenities we had heard of existed in these sites catering for the long term RVer.  Snowbirds, as they are called, travel south for the winter, and spend sev