Trip to Espanola

We went into town today. Espanola is the nearest community of any size. It's 30 miles southeast of Abiquiu on US 84, about halfway to Santa Fe. We hated to leave the pristine beauty of Lake Abiquiu, especially since today was a really lovely warm sunny day, but we had to do our laundry and do some shopping.

Our first stop was at Box Pack Mail, a UPS and Fedex drop off point, where I picked up a package from Carolyn at New Horizons. She had kindly shipped back to me the GPS unit I left lying in the customer lounge. Next we stopped at CVS to pick up some prescriptions that Dr. George's office had faxed in. As it turned out, only one of the two prescriptions was there, and the pharmacist said that they had received only one. So Ken had to call the doc's office and try to get things straightened out. The problem is that this kind of mixup has happened before, and Dr. George's office again insisted that they had faxed both prescriptions. It took three phone calls to convince them to fax it again.

By now it was past our lunchtime so we stopped at Subway--after we found it. Turned out the location we had visited on our last trip here had closed, but we found our way and had a late lunch.

Next we went to the Bubble Zone, a nearby laundromat. After we got the clothes in the washers, I went out to the truck to make some phone calls. The Verizon signal at the lake is unreliable. I had three doctor's offices in Mission to phone in payments to. I succeeded on one, left a message on another, and ended up stymied on the third. Frustrating!

Then we went grocery shopping and got diesel before stopping at the CVS again to pick up the second prescription. As we were about to pay for it, we realized that it had been filled for one month instead of three, so we had to wait for that to be corrected. As we left the store, I looked at the RX label and realized that it had zero refills (it was supposed to be a 90 day prescription with three refills....). We like Dr. George, but we are really unhappy with the incompetence of his office staff.

Back out at the lake we took our evening walk, again enjoying the wildflowers and the sunshine and the bunnies and the kids on the playground and the peace of nature after the frustrations of the city. The campground is definitely filling up for the weekend.