Day 12 (On the move again)
Day 12
July 3, 2006
Durango, CO to Santa Fe, NM (240 miles)
We slept in after the long day and late night on the train. It rained again overnight. It was a slow, soaking rain—just what the parched southwest has been praying for. We were unaffected.
Sessy washed two loads of clothes, including some pretty dirty ones from the train ride. Frank cooked breakfast. Then we folded up the trailer (dry) and headed to downtown Durango. We spent a couple hours shopping along Main Avenue before hitting the road to Santa Fe.
The drive on mostly 2-lane roads was beautiful but slow. It took us more than 5 hours of driving to cover 240 miles. Carson National Forest was no less impressive to us this second time we drove through it than it was in 1990. The bigger towns we passed through were Pagosa Springs, CO and Espanola, NM. Other than these places, the drive was through wide open country.
Our destination was Hyde Memorial State Park, just northeast of the Santa Fe. The campground is about 9 miles from the center of town, yet its elevation is about 1,500 higher, which makes it at least 10 degrees cooler and quite a bit wetter.
The campground was pretty rustic, although it did have electricity and drinking water. We set up our trailer and then drove back down to Santa Fe to take showers at a City gym. We returned to our trailer and slept soundly until about midnight when a very powerful thunderstorm blew through, yielding much rain, wind and lightning and thunder. Once again we were secure in our camper and glad that we weren’t tent camping.
July 3, 2006
Durango, CO to Santa Fe, NM (240 miles)
We slept in after the long day and late night on the train. It rained again overnight. It was a slow, soaking rain—just what the parched southwest has been praying for. We were unaffected.Sessy washed two loads of clothes, including some pretty dirty ones from the train ride. Frank cooked breakfast. Then we folded up the trailer (dry) and headed to downtown Durango. We spent a couple hours shopping along Main Avenue before hitting the road to Santa Fe.
The drive on mostly 2-lane roads was beautiful but slow. It took us more than 5 hours of driving to cover 240 miles. Carson National Forest was no less impressive to us this second time we drove through it than it was in 1990. The bigger towns we passed through were Pagosa Springs, CO and Espanola, NM. Other than these places, the drive was through wide open country.
Our destination was Hyde Memorial State Park, just northeast of the Santa Fe. The campground is about 9 miles from the center of town, yet its elevation is about 1,500 higher, which makes it at least 10 degrees cooler and quite a bit wetter.
The campground was pretty rustic, although it did have electricity and drinking water. We set up our trailer and then drove back down to Santa Fe to take showers at a City gym. We returned to our trailer and slept soundly until about midnight when a very powerful thunderstorm blew through, yielding much rain, wind and lightning and thunder. Once again we were secure in our camper and glad that we weren’t tent camping.
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