Monday, June 15, 2015




Coming North from Carlsbad, NM, Mike was able to make a new friend.


Then we spent the night in Villanueva State Park. Villanueva (which Siri pronounces Vil La-NEW-va) is so old that they refer to it simply as a Spanish Colonial village on the Pecos River. 


They know that Coronado came thru here in 1581 or 82 or 83 and one of the brothers in his company founded a mission at some point. It was not named Villanueva until 1890. 

It turns out the Pecos starts in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and flows all the way to the Rio Grande, where it is pretty darn humble looking. But here it was in near flood and beautiful to sit or sleep beside (which we did). 




In the morning we were off to Trinidad, CO. where we will stay only night before pushing on to Rocky Mountain National Park in the Tuesday. 

We stopped in Maxwell, NM to change drivers, and I fell in love with the Post Office. 


There will be more soon from Rocky Mountain National Park.

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