9:53 AM- It's 30 and 40 mph winds and snow flurries. This wind is really something. We are going to drive 233 miles today because of Obama and his plan to give all state govt wokers a furlough day to say money. Our whole schedule has changed; we will miss the Sante Fe History museum.
Instead we will drivw to the outside of these places and take pictures-St. Miguel, St. Francis of Assissi, the oldest house and church, the Hill Museums are open. It has a bronzed statue of the pioneers in their conestooga wagons being pulled by 6 horses.The Sante Fe River flows through town and is only one foot wide- hardly a stream! It flows into the Rio Grande River and is still east of the Continental Divide.
Lunch was at Harry's Road House at 12:oo. Daddy ordered a green chili burrito with red chili on the side(called Christmas chili when they put the green and red together) and I had a half turkey Reuban with a cup of soup made from squash, curry, ginger and cocoanut. Very good and local food!We passed another place to eat. It was called Cucina Zaragoza- like a Mexican "hot dog stand" with unique looking foods.They also had odds and ends for sale- a stuufed magpie bird which you do not see in the wild on the east coast.
1:15 PM we are leaving for Durango, Colorado on #550 N; it's said to be Coronado's Trail. We seem to be running into this Spaniard the last few days. The mountains landscape has changed- flattops of beige, red-orange, mustard colored with very few trees. It is 44 miles of road traveling through sedimentary and granite rock in horizontal layers.
2:55 PM- a brief snowsotrom blowing dry snow all acrosss the road. The teperature for Durango is 22 low, 43 high with these 40 mph winds. The winds are so strong you see little "dust devils" all around! It's a 6& grade here and it's just 1 Indian reservaition after another, or so say the signs. But we see nothing. The clumps of huge sagebrush on top of those flattop mts.could almost look like Indians on horses watching us approach. It looks just like the old Indian movies. 3:30 PM All around us are dried up river beds; which are part of the Colorado Watershed. Only 1 of all of these had any water in it.
4:50 we can see mountains in the distance with lots of snow and no trees; there are oil wellls in the fields around us. So far we have traveled 188 miles today.
5:33 the Colorado satae line and the landscape shanges again. Much more water is available here and
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