An easy day driving on the interstate. Haven’t done much of that this last year. We’ve logged a lot of miles on rural highways. South over Raton Pass onto the New Mexico high plains, driving through a vast expanse of soft brown pastels; driving through a giant chalk drawing. Prairie falcons and pronghorns. A coyote. Up and down the hills to Santa Fe at seven thousand feet.
The Rio Grande River starts high in the San Juans above Creede. From there, it flows east through South Fork and Alamosa in the San Luis Valley, then down through New Mexico. We catch up with it south of Albuquerque and follow it for another sixty miles. A stop for the night at Bosque Bird Watchers RV Park at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.
We’re traveling south in search of warmer nights. When it’s below freezing, we have to disconnect the water at night and run off the tanks. We haven’t been able to leave the water hooked up at night for weeks. Last night at Lathrop it was twenty-seven degrees.
187 days until the 2007 America’s Cup Challenger Series.
