Thanksgiving Day. Happy Thanksgiving.
We traveled a little. Left Las Cruces. Drove north, up Interstate 25,
through New Mexico. Truth or Consequences, Socorro, Albuquerque, and
stopped for the night at Santa Fe. 7,000 feet high. Bill may be familiar
with our spot, Santa Fe Skies RV park. Lots of long pull through sites.
WiFi. Snow on the ground.
We've been driving Interstate 10. Now we've switched to Interstate 25. A
one-highway drive back to Colorado from here. Interstate 10 is a trucker's
highway, just like Interstate 40 and Interstate 80. Long, straight, and
fast. Interstate 25 is not. Hardly any trucks. It is still smooth enough
to be fast, though.
Along the way we stopped at Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.
Bill sent me an article on it a while back because it is such a good birding
park. We didn't stop to bird today; we stopped to check out the place to
stay here. It's called Birdwatchers RV Park. It's nice enough, and the
park manager was good to talk to. They feed the quail, so the little birds
are all over in the mornings and evenings. We'll definitely stay here when
we get a chance to come back and bird.
We're making a loop this trip: out through Utah, down through Phoenix,
across to New Mexico, and back up to Colorado. We didn't do it on purpose,
but we ended up visiting all four of the North American deserts. The Great
basin, Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahan. The Sonoran is our favorite because
it has such diversity of plant and animal life. It is the most beautiful.
Our other favorite is the Chihuahan, because it has the most bird species of
any of our deserts. And the Mojave is our favorite because it is the lowest
and warmest. The Great Basin desert is our favorite because it includes all
the badlands and Canyonlands of Utah.
Stopped early in the day, watched some football, had a very nice
Thanksgiving. Judy prepared the full meal: turkey, stuffing, potatoes,
gravy, cranberries, green beans, Christmas salad, rolls, coffee, and pumpkin
pie for dessert. I have no idea how she did it. We didn't stop for the day
until 2. Then, to complete the tradition, we lit the Christmas lights.
