russau;

     Thank you.  I’m glad you enjoy it.  I’ll try to keep from turning it into a diary and get too boring with the updates. riverrunner814;      Thanks, I can use it.        I’m having to change vehicles.  It’s getting to be a bit too much for these ole’ southern bones to sleep in this sub-urban with the temperatures dropping into the mid 20s at night.  Besides the back of this thing has ridges or something in it and it’s giving my back and other parts of my anatomy ruffles.  To say the least.  Maybe in the next update I’ll be in something that when I wake up I won’t be wiping icicles off my eyelids so I can see or having to jump up and run out to the back of my trailer and open it so I can get to my porta-potty at 1 or 2 in the morning.  Brrrrrrrrrr that seat is Cooolldd.  I also hope I’ll have some good news about prospecting.  Y’all take care now.  GOD bless.  Later.                                                                                                                            HarryHey Folks;       Sorry I’ve been so long in getting back to you, I’ve been a bit preoccupied with this new used RV I just got.  Had to dip into my savings that I was going to use to put down on property when I got to the end of my trip but I didn’t use it all so I still have a little to work with. Hey Grumps;      I’m glad you’re enjoying the trip.  At least from now on it won’t be quite so cold.  I just won’t be able to go a lot of places I would have been able to in the sub-urban. Hey MOUSE;      Thanks for the advice but my back doesn’t hurt as bad now plus I don’t get nearly as cold in this RV. 

Y’all take care now.  GOD bless.  Later.

                                                                                                                          Harry

 P.S. Now for another update.                                                                                                                          Harry

Hey Folks;

      I was really hoping to have some really good news for you this time but as fate would have it, or rather the ONE who controls fate would have it.  It wasn’t to be.  I had all the sub 30-degree weather these ole southern bones could handle so I went out and found me a cheep RV.  It cost me my vehicle and my trailer and a little money to boot, but it’s big enough to carry everything and still keep most of the chill off when the temp gets down in the 20s.  I spent a few nights in it in Hatch, N.M. while the money was being transferred from my bank to theirs so I could get the title and tag without having to have it sent to me somewhere.  Well today, Mon. the 28^th I got the title and went down to the DMV to register it and get my tag and guess what, the place was closed through Tue.  So I went back to the place I bought the RV from and let them do a few finishing touches and finally headed toward Hillsboro.  I was thinking, finally I get to do what I came to this area for.  Well remember what I said about fate.  Just as I turned of I-25 onto 152 the @$^$$#!*^^&* (explicative +++) thing backfired on me.  I thought maybe just blowing out some carbon or something after setting up for a while.  Well, just before getting into Hillsboro you have to go over a few hills.  I was sick Saturday and that engine made me look like the picture of health by comparison.  I didn’t think I was going to make it. 

     I finally got into Hillsboro, barely, and had to go all the way through the town to get to where the rock shop is that I was told about.  I pulled into the parking lot and after going back through the RV and picking everything up off the floor that I didn’t nail down before I left, I got out and went to the door of the rock shop only to find a sign on the door that said gone of vacation until the 15^th of Jan.  Bummer, what next. 

     The answer was soon coming when I tried to contact the place where I bought the RV to tell them what was going on with the engine.  No cell phone access, no Internet access and nobody home in the rock shop so I could use their phone.  That meant that I had to drive all the way back to I-25 intersection before I could contact anyone.  So, that’s what I did.  With the engine spitting and sputtering and coughing and missing and backfiring all the way down the hills till I got to somewhat level road.  And, it still acted up when I got to a stretch of road where I could accelerate.  So, now I’m sitting back in Hatch, N.M. waiting for the place to open tomorrow where they can find out what’s wrong with it and let me know when I’ll be able to get back on the road again.  Time will tell.

      Well, it’s three days later and I’m sitting in a cheep campground in Hatch, N. M.  The shop man at the RV Dealership checked out my engine, changed out a few things and said he couldn’t figure it out because he didn’t have the equipment to check it out thoroughly and sent me to a garage in Garfield, about 12 miles down the road, that does a lot of work for them.  I got there just in time to spend the night sitting in my RV at the shop so they could get to it first thing in the morning.  They adjusted the carburetor, changed plug wires, hooked up vacuum hoses, checked the compression on a few cylinders and said your good to go.  Their diagnostic equipment was their ears and the feel of the engine vibration.  The engine is running a lot better so far but I’m sitting here in this RV Park with an almost empty tank, low funds and it feels like my cold is coming back.  The only good news is the place that is supposed to forward my mail said that the package, (Mining Guide), I was expecting came in and they could get it to me in 2 to 4 days via U.S. Mail.  At least that’s some consolation.  I’ll have it when I start out again.  But, with the price of gas around here, I’m inclined to spend a little more time here till my financial funds catch up to me also.  I’m not sure but I might be here at least a month.  Talk about roadblocks.  Well, maybe something good will come out of this delay.  I’ll update you again when I have something worth reporting.  In the meantime, I would appreciate it if whoever reads this will bump it up so I don’t have to look so far back into the archives for it to post an update.  Thanks folks and thanks a lot for reading it.  I appreciate your interest in my trip.  Y’all take care now.  GOD bless.  Later.

                                                                                                                             Harry