Paliasades RV Park, Albuquerque, NM

As we continued north on the interstate, the weather was clear but cool. We wanted to stop off in Albuquerque to sightsee, but the downtown area was nearly deserted. We realized it was Saturday, and headed back to the interstate towards Santa Fe. Lei called the local weather service, since we had heard the night time low temperature might be in the thirties. As Howard tried to navigate the highway interchange, Lei told him to just get off, GET OFF!! The Santa Fe area was expecting a freeze overnight, not the kind of weather we wanted to drive into!
In one of the visitor magazines we found a private RV park, and headed west out of town for the hills. The park had a few short stay spaces in the front, while the rest of the park behind the main building was full of long term RV types. This is the image a lot of folks have for RV parks: dirty old RVs, tires flat, lots of junk around, with beat old cars and trucks. The office was pretty ratty, with a young guy working the desk and smoking continuously. We paid for a space and parked the rig in one of the spaces in the front, near the road but out of sight of the broken down mess in the back.
We drove back down into town to see if anything caught our interest, but most everything was shut down for the weekend. We found a supermarket on the way back, and spent the afternoon doing laundry at the RV park. The night time temperature was going to be near forty degrees, so we bundled up and slept with the little space heater on.