June 19, 2023 Breakfast - Oatmeal with Pear and Apple Chutney. Lunch - Sandwiches at La Ventana Arch. Dinner - BBQ Pork Ribs with an Ear of Corn and Blanched Broccoli

June 19, 2023 Breakfast - Oatmeal with Pear and Apple Chutney. Lunch - Sandwiches at La Ventana Arch. Dinner - BBQ Pork Ribs with an Ear of Corn and Blanched Broccoli

We woke up in our own bed, having left the Camper at La Ventana Arch, and Suzette started communicating with AAA about a tow.

We dressed and showered and I made oatmeal with brown sugar and raisins and some of the anpple and pear chutney Suzette made.

We received a call around 10:30 from AAA that they had located a tow truck operator in Thoreau who would meet us at La Ventana and tow the camper to Albuquerque.

So I made a sandwich with salami, ham, Manchego cheese on two halves of a sbuttered toasted piece of baguette and bagged some dill pickles. Suzette packed the sandwich in a cooler bag with ice and we drove back to La Ventana in the Prius.

The last ten miles we were followed by a bid red tow truck that turned out to be Jim, the driver for Thoreau Wrecker Service, our tower.

When we arrived at La Ventana at 12:30 Jim did all the paperwork and loaded the camper onto the truck and told us the fee would be $577.94 to deliver the camper to Jody’s yard in Albuquerque and AAA would pay $500.00.  We scraped together all the cash we had which was $73.00 and Jim accepted that for the extra $77.94.

We called Jody and notified him to expect Jim in 1 1/2 hours and waved goodbye to Jim and our camper.

We took the cooler and food basket from the camper and I put the wine and beers in the iced cooler.

So at 2:00 we ate lunch at the same table we sat at yesterday with the incredible view of La Ventana and finished the bottle of Vara Tempranillo and ate the Oreo cookies the nice Hispanic family gave us yesterday for dessert

We then drove back to Albuquerque, arriving at 3:45.

Suzette lay down and I fetched a roasting pan and a rack with 1/3 inch of water underneath and the boneless pork ribs we bought at Costco and spread BBQ sauce on the ribs and put them into a 350 degree oven.

Suzette came in a few minutes later and saved the meal by covering the pan with aluminum.

We roasted the ribs for 4 hours but they never got soft enough to fall apart with the touch of a fork.  

Suzette boiled two ears of corn and some broccoli while we watched Antiques Roadshow and then at 8:00 we served dinner with the two bottles of Dos Equis we carried to La Ventana and back.

I liked dinner but realized that the boneless ribs were actually sliced butt meat and would take several more hours than 4 to soften.

Suzette was unhappy with the result.

After dinner we watched another episode of Antiques Roadshow and ate some chocolate cherry ice cream to finish our big Juneteenth celebration.

Suzette went to bed while I stayed up to watch Rachel and Lawrence.

We were very lucky to get the Camper back to Jody in one piece and at minimal expense to us.

I called Amy to thank her for buying us the AAA membership and she told us about their harrowing aborted trip to Amsterdam after a three hour delay in Denver and a cancelled flight to Amsterdam last week.

Alas, travel is becoming difficult. 

Bon Appetit