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!
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