We didn’t make it into Canyonlands. At the first sign of nice weather, everyone comes out here and the small campground in the park is full. Luckily there is a good campground right outside the park limits. Lucky, because the park is 34 miles from the main highway with no developed campgrounds (though there’s lots [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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We made a fast escape from Chaco on Friday. The sky was leaden gray when we woke up, but it began to snow while we were showering, which did not bode well for the thirteen miles of dirt road. As we barreled along at 20 mph, the snow got pretty heavy, but was not melting [...]
Friday, April 17, 2009
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The snow had melted at Bandelier but not in the Jemez Mountains! We couldn’t take our favorite route across the mountains; the RV isn’t meant for dirt roads covered with snow. So we took the long way around the mountains and passed the Jemez soda dam, a weird construction built over time by minerals in [...]
Sunday, April 12, 2009
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We packed up everything and headed 50 miles to Bandelier National Monument. The busy US-84/285 Highway had quite a few pilgrims walking along the side, headed for El Sanctuario de Chimayo. Each highway exit had a sign, pointing the pilgrims off the highway, but quite a few just trudged along.
Bandelier is one of our [...]
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
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Monday called for another drive, this time the “High Road to Taos”. The focus was going to be on churches in the small towns along the way. Our first stop was El Sanctuario de Chimayo, a quiet peaceful church surrounded by hills. The Sanctuary is famous for a small hole, filled with dirt that is [...]
Sunday, April 5, 2009
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After a windy night near Albuquerque, we drove up the Turquoise Trail to Santa Fe. We then spent a very cold, blustery afternoon, visiting the Saturday Santa Fe Farmers Market and finding some galleries that Dave wanted to check out. We ate lunch at the O’Keeffe Café. What a pleasure! The restaurant is in a [...]
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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Happy Belated Birthday, Kevin. (You know who you are!) It’s a big one this year and I’m not far behind you.
White Sands is a difficult place, weather-wise. Monday, we got there at 7 a.m. and the light was golden and luscious, but the wind was a bear. It hissed through the dried Yucca plants. When [...]
Sunday, March 29, 2009
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Wind is putting too much wind into our sails. It’s been too windy to photograph comfortably at White Sands. Instead we have been lazing around, catching up with laundry and shopping for jeans. The southwest seems to be the only place I can find a pair of non-stretch jeans. We went to a movie yesterday: [...]
