We stayed at Fun Valley, great for kids, but it was very crowded. The east part is beautiful, the west, crowded.
West:
And I put my troubles at God’s feet. He can handle me from here. Off to Durango and back to South Fork today!
Be back tomorrow! No service in South Fork, remember?
I am not sure what happened, but I kinda felt like a third wheel today. We all made plans for our trip today last night; I prepared for them (made picnic lunches), but not until long after we leave we were informed they had decided to go back to Creede and eat lunch. We had gotten to Lake City and would have had to go back - if we had been invited.
We had been through Creede and they asked if we wanted to shop and I said it didn’t matter (I don’t want to disappoint anyone, so I try to go with the flow). Anyway, they decided to go on to Lake City, we fueled there, then I was told then that they hadn’t brought lunch, and were going back to Creede to eat. Steve and I had planned to separate, and come on to Montrose to spend the night, AFTER we lunch with them.
Well, I was caught totally off guard. We wouldn’t have minded eating out with them, but it was more, “you are here and we are going back there to eat.” I had no idea they had changed plans - we had eaten breakfast over there, so I was just… I guess, hurt... ? Surely it wasn’t intended to be like that, but it felt like it. Or maybe I am tired. Steve even felt funny about it too, though, and he is usually the one that sets me straight.
Oh well, it’ll be ok, I am going to just carry on. I know the other two couples are friends forever and been buddies for years, so maybe they just wanted time together. We are the newbies and still feeling our way around. Moving on…
The other half of the day was ok. I was upset part of it, but after I got over my cry, it got better. We found a picnic table, fed chipmunks, talked and rode on.
The terrain changes by the curve. I am just going to share pics and go to bed. We are at a wonderful Mexican restaurant this evening, I had a huge daiquiri and lovely evening with Steve. That made it worth it. He has an awful sunburn, so you know how much sun *I* got. Lupus and sun don’t mix well. I need to try to rest. We go the on the “million dollar highway tomorrow!
Here goes the pics!
Taos to South Fork was an easy trip. We just hung back and enjoyed the ride. Lots of neat sights. These houses looked to be in a spaceship subdivision.
All were spread far apart and oddly shaped.
Can you imagine building them?
Who comes up with these ideas anyway?
There were a bunch of them, but this is all I took.
Yesterday we averaged 8.5 miles to the gallon of Diesel and went up around 6,000 ft. Highway 108 out of Tucumcari is beautiful! Highway 518, from Las Vegas, New Mexico is amazing! They call it Taos high mountain highway.
Yesterday… Oh goodness! Brenda saw pronghorn, we saw prairie dogs and I saw lots of pistachio trees. Lee and Mike are staying at a hotel, but they said there are a lot of prairie dogs next door to them. It is quite baron in a lot of area, but when there is (human) life, amazingly artistic - from the homes to the art!
We saw so many different terrains between the two places; from desserts to mountains! It was so beautiful!
We travel in a group; Steve first (big mega cab diesel and a 40 foot fifth wheel, Lee and Mike on their Harley pulling a trailer, then Brenda and Jim in a big diesel pickup pulling their camper.
But as we were on a high climb on one of the mountains, a semi with a flatbed trailer was coming down in the oncoming lane. Steve pulled over to give him room, Mike was ok on the bike as he doesn’t take much room, and Jim was over as well… but somehow, that 18 wheeler got past us and Mike and just as he got past Jim the back of his trailer hit the guardrail! I heard a bunch of metal rattling, but I thought it was his trailer bouncing, so never gave it another thought.
Jim said a big 4x4 under (?) (usually where they store them) flew out on the highway and the trailer was bouncing around like crazy, but the trucker got it under control and did not flip over the side. How terrifying!
I have prayed and prayed for that man and the people going both ways on the mountain pass! Did he stop? COULD he stop going down the pass? Did someone hit his 4x4? Is he ok? I will never know - we never even knew all of this until our next stop, but once I heard I just couldn’t quit praying and worrying. He still had half a mountain to get down! Anyway, that was awful to hear about and more awful not to know the outcome. I pray all is well.
The rest is just pics. This has been a wonderful trip!
