Tumblewagon » Tucumcari NM http://tumblewagon.com A family of three living on the road in their RV for a year around America. Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:23:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 RV Home Improvement Series / Episode 14: Surge Protector http://tumblewagon.com/2009/05/27/rv-home-improvement-series-episode-14-surge-protector/ http://tumblewagon.com/2009/05/27/rv-home-improvement-series-episode-14-surge-protector/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 09:06:48 +0000 Nathan http://tumblewagon.com/?p=1314

Explosions. Disaster. Nuclear Holocaust. These things and more can affect the happiness of your RV lifestyle. Here I’ll show you how to install a surge protector in order to prevent power from using you.

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Such a cool little slice of Route 66.

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And the RV parks are aplenty, from KOA to five or six local places, some more “trailer” than others. We found ourselves with the good fortune of staying at Cactus RV Park.

The website is very friendly and that, combined with the fact that it’s the closest park to downtown, is why we chose the place. Upon our arrival, the owner was just as friendly, a dark skinned fellow all too eager to help us find a comfortable spot. I told him we didn’t need cable and he gave us a discount on top of our Good Sam 10%, and then proceeded to tell us that if we wanted to use the cable, he wouldn’t mind. He is currently in the middle of remodeling the whole place, having recently purchased it and apparently transformed it from a long term park full of immovable trailers, to a cute and clean little RV park. The website now boasts “We are mostly an overnight RV park. Stay with your kind of people, the overnight traveler.”

There are no laundry facilities, bathrooms or showers, the owner informed us “We’re new. We’ve got to tear it down before we can build new.”

So let it be known: Cactus RV Park is an absolutely no-frills place to stay for a night, maybe two, get your fill of Tucumcari and keep it on down the road.

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