Headin' South - Eagle Nest, New Mexico

Our stay in Eagle Nest is coming to a close. The weather is definitely getting colder. This morning was 18 degrees. Bruce and Bridgette are closing the park for a few weeks and flying to Florida for a cruise with their family. We are planning to leave tomorrow and head down to Albuquerque for a week. We have an appointment to have a couple of items checked on the Jeep.

View of Touch-Me-Not Mountain this morning.

From Albuquerque, we will head west and meet up with Lee and Connie (the other camphosts from Eagle Nest) in Casa Grande, Arizona. We will spend a week in their park, then plan to arrive in Tucson on November 15th.

Making a Movie - Eagle Nest, New Mexico

For the last couple of days, a movie company has used the RV Park as their base of operations as they shot parts of a movie in the area. Half of the lower level was taken up with office trailers, restrooms, dressing rooms, prop trucks, a kitchen trailer and a lunchroom trailer. Most of the crew parked up on the upper level where our rig is parked. Several vans were used to shuttle cast/crew back and forth between the RV Park and the shooting locations. It is surprising on how much equipment and crew are needed to make a movie. I was told by one of the crew that this was one of the smallest crews he had worked on, many were much larger.


The final scene shot in the area involved the main character in a car chase (truck). Below is a picture of the camera boom truck that films the moving vehicle. The red truck in the background is driven by the actor.


By 7:00pm, the entire crew had left and the park was quiet. During the exodus, one of the trucks had managed to run over and break one of the water spigots. More plumbing duties!

Oh, the main actor...Sean Penn.

Weekend Visit - Los Alamos, New Mexico

This weekend we drove to Los Alamos to visit Rick's sister, Joanne and her husband, Jay. We had a nice easy weekend, playing games and visiting. Their house in on one of the canyons with a great view. On the way home, we enjoyed the color change in the Taos Canyon...fall is here! Sorry, no pictures. It was too late in the evening.

View from the Joanne & Jay's deck.