Santa Fe. Three days to do the job. A support organization for
environmental non-profits in a Northern New Mexico adobe. Five mile commute
from the RV Park. Interesting job. Saturday. Time to move on.
North on Hwy 285 from Santa Fe. High desert. Past Wind Mountain. Past San
Antonio Mountain. No high passes. Crossed the state line for Colorado at
Antonito, the eastern terminus of the Cumbres and Toltec scenic railway.
San Luis Valley, past the sand dunes, to San Luis Lakes State Park out in
the middle of the valley. Saltgrass, rabbit brush, and greasewood. A
birding walk produced canada goose, ring billed gull, mourning dove, common
nighthawk, loggerhead shrike, barn swallow, and a new bird for us.... sage
thrasher.
