OK, having had it mentioned to me that I failed to Blog on this last trip (thank you Art), I am now going to give you a small taste of what we saw during our trip. And, this is a little chance for me to brush up on my blogging skills for the upcoming trip to the South Pacific.
First off, we went to Navajo Lake for five days. Lovely weather, nice lake view site, read a lot of books as we had two (?) whole TV channels and no internet.
Here is the new restaurant at the marina:
I would write more, but we really didn't do much more. Had thought we might fish a little, but never quite got around to that. We really did just sleep late, lounge around all day and watch the shadows change as the sun moved across.
After five days at the lake, we headed north to Pagosa Springs, Colorado. We took a pretty small back road, which was absolutely beautiful and it went past the Chimney Rock National Monument. I had never even heard of this monument until we went by it. We also shared the road with a few farmers who were baling hay.
We spent just one night at Pagosa Springs, but we did walk around town a bit, and refilled the gas tank and the refrigerator.
The next day we headed all of 50 miles down to Chama, NM. We had never ridden the Cumbres and Toltec narrow gauge train, so decided to make this stop in order to do that. Our RV park was right on the river and just next door to the train station. Every morning at 10 and every afternoon at 4 the train goes by and the park residents wander over to the track to wave at the train and take pictures.
While we were waiting for the afternoon train, we saw this mother and her baby getting a drink in the river.
And here comes the train...
The next day we took our ride, and enjoyed not only the scenery but the nice lunch at the midway station. I don't have pictures of that stop, but here are pictures from the ride.
The picture above is when the engineer performs a 'blowdown'. Its sort of a high pressure rinse of the bottom of the steam boiler to rid it of particulates and whatever other sediment might have accumulated.
All in all, a very enjoyable day and we're very glad we finally took this ride after living in NM for 25 years.
The following day we headed over to Angel Fire. It was an interesting drive, only 115 miles, but you do go over a high pass and for us, through the clouds, too.
One thing we saw on our way was an actual, genuine cattle round up. With real cowboys on horses and cattle dogs. It was like being in the movies, only real.
At Angel Fire, we met up with Tom's brother Jim, and his wife Doty. I guess we must have been so excited to see each other that I failed to take pictures of our pretty view, Doty or Jim or the things we did. Absolutley nada, zip squat to show we were there. 😩
On our ride home, we ran into a morning thundershower just above Espanola...
So...there you have it. A summary of our trip and a little blogging practice for me. Stay tuned for the next installment in 19 days.
