We left Leakey about 7:15 on Monday morning. We drove and drove and drove until we reached Bernallilo, NM. The end. :) Okay, I'll elaborate just a little. We went through West Texas. Oh wow. It was long and flat with lots of scruffy plants and dirt, dirt, and more red dirt.
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| Oh it went on for miles. I think Jeff took pictures of the red dirt because I was driving. |
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| We had storms on both sides of us but only got a few drops on the windshild! |
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| Great highway with the sighting of a mountain in the distance! |
As we got a little further into New Mexico, it was still really dry, but the country started changing a little bit for the better. Albuquerque was pretty some mountains around it, but it was such a big city! We got there about rush hour to thanks to road construction that delayed us 45 minutes. We were second in a line of around 100 cars stopped on the highway because they were resurfacing the road. Anyway, Jeff said it was about like driving through Houston, not San Antonio. So that was good. We ate at Blake's Lotaburger and it was okay. The kids got huge chocolate milks! I've never seen a fast food place give huge milks like that. So that was a plus, but other than that, just ordinary fast food.
We got a prime parking spot at the hotel that night with our bikes backed in and that worked out well. The kids LOVED the hotel and did outstanding in it. They were so cute. We all enjoyed the breakfast downstairs in the morning and then off we went to Durango!!
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| Highway 550 was a wonderful four lane road until we got closer to Durango. Then this! |
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| Durango! |
We arrived about noon and saw a park off the highway called Santa Rita Park that had our names written on it. We sat on the grass, really lush soft grass and watched the kids play and ate lunch. We walked next to the Animas River and checked out the new water treatment plant they were building (nice, hah), and then went to a forest service place so Jeff could get some information. We bought groceries and finally got on the road to Ouray! It took 2 hours to get to our house/cabin and along the way there was some noise coming from the back of the car...come to find out it was chips popping and canned biscuits bursting!
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| This was a cool area in the park. Called Harmony Park. |
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| Busted Biscuits!!! |
We had a great trip and a safe trip and are so glad to be here!
That is so funny about the biscuits! I bet that was kind of scary at first. It looks like you saw some interesting things! Glad the kids did so well!!! Enjoy!
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