Here we sit in Albuquerque, exhausted at the end of a day. We've put on another 450 miles and feel like we couldn't have gone another inch. What happened to those days when 700 miles and 14 hours on the road was routine.
If you haven't driven the road from Denver to Albuquerque along I-25 we would recommend it. It starts with mountains and valleys and ends with endless grasslands and desert. We stopped in Colorado Springs to take a walk through the Garden of the Gods, a valley filled with beautiful red rock formations and has miles of walking paths and nature walks.(See photograph.) We loved seeing the long tailed Magpies.
As we drove through New Mexico, along the Santa Fe trail I was struck by the beauty of the gulches that wind their way through the flat grass lands - jagged eroded walls and filled with rocks- and how they add a depth and character to the flat land. Unfortunately, not much water has flown though the gulches this year. New Mexico is in a major drought.
Tomorrow we are off to Scottsdale.
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