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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