We rolled into Flagstaff to a Taco Tuesday party at Martine’s house. We found Lucia and Penelope already there visiting for soccer camp. Exciting to see cousins and their kin after too long absent.
How do I recount so much we’ve done since Marathon, a montage, I think.
it rains in the desert when we are there. Big Bend is the only national park encompassing an entire mountain range. We visited the McDonald Observatory by Fort Davis and saw Jupiter, Saturn, and a nebula. We discovered night pictures with our camera and their need for a tripod. At the Guadalupe Mountains we hiked the highest point and Texas and it walked all over us. We saw fossils because its all an ancient reef. In Roswell we found plenty of Alien statues and the banquet for the New Mexico Senior Olympics. Driving north we found some more rain. In Albuquerque we discovered a wonderful city. In Santa Fe we froze camping in the forest and got inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe. Back to Albuquerque and a KOA offered a different kind of camping. Hundreds of RVs and a smattering of tents in a gravel parking lot. A spectacular sunset frosted the whole thing. Flagstaff and Tacos awaited us the next night. We’ve been here three nights and are enjoying some kind of slowness although that seems laughable. Our wedding anniversary was spent biking the south rim of the Grand Canyon. It’s completely different than the Colca in Peru and the Sumidero in Mexico. This evening will find us most likely amidst a pile of moving boxes in our friends’ Tempe apartment.
Thanks for more details of your travels! It’s so interesting but seems that it would be tiring to be constantly on the move. Apparently that old van is holding up, thank goodness! Maybe there’s a shortcut to CA. Take care!
Love and miss you two, Mom and Dad