Santa Fe, NM- Check out the happy lavender! It's all over the place in Santa Fe. Here we are leaving our hotel Wednesday morning. The police were at the new red Ford pickup parked right in front of us; it had been broken into during the night- front window smashed. Guess we were lucky with our station wagon of stuff untouched. So off we headed onto 40 West on a cool morning 56 degrees.
About 10:30 and well into New Mexico we crossed the Continental Divide. This is the crest of the Rockies and down into New Mexico that divides which way the rivers flow. East to the Atlantic or Gulf or west to the Pacific. Elevation: 7200'.
The landscape was beautiful. These red bluff ran for many miles up the road.
We broke mid day in Holbrook, New Mexico, at a Denny's. Breakfast for lunch hit the spot. This town of 5080 people and elevation 5000, is home of the Petrified Forest. We did not got into the "forest," but I saw some petrified wood along the highway and Holbrook delighted us by decorating their sign with samples.
Great sky!!
The storms really can't sneak up on you out here in the land of the "big sky." We drove through several of these showers.
Interesting town names we passed included "Two Guns" and "Sow Low."
Much of the landscape we drove through today was Indian reservation.
"Take it easy, take it eeeeeeeasy....." Remember that one? We passed through Winslow, Arizona, today, but we we weren't "standin' on a corner." The Eagles knew of what they sang back in 1972.
When we got to Flagstaff, AZ, it was only 1:30- we had crossed into the Pacific time zone- and it was rainy so we decided to push on to the Grand Canyon another two hours. The Best Western was able to give us a room so we headed north. At the end of the day we had driven 2,700 miles of out journey! We are actually on 500 miles away from the kids in San Diego but Grand Canyon, Bryce, Zion and Las Vegas come first.
Love the pics of the landscape. beautiful.
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