Blogs from Santa Rosa, New Mexico, United States, North America

First off, let me make a correction to last nights post. Peyton now has 509 touchdown passes not 510. I felt that it was important to mention. As usual, we got off to a later start than we had planned but still made it to Santa Rosa, NM before 3:00 PM. We are staying in the same Holiday Inn Express hotel and the same room that we stayed in on the trip out. We have the same TV that we had to call the desk attendant to reprogram last time (and this time). I'm sitting in the same telescoping desk chair that slowly lowers so that I'm typing with my hands at about eye level........(Hold on a sec while I raise my chair)...........that's better... and Prudy has to put a wash cloth down the drain hole ... read more

Départ à 9h30, 28 394 miles au compteur. A la sortie d'Amarillo, nous nous arrêtons au "Cadillac Ranch". Direction Véga, mais pas grand'chose à voir. Une ville à moitié fantôme. Nous continuons jusqu'à la limite du Nouveau Mexique. Dans une aire de repos, on nous donne des documentations sur les différentes choses à voir et notamment à quelques kilomètres de là, à Russell, un musée de l'automobile. C'est petit, gratuit et il y a une quarantaine de véhicules et quelques miniatures en parfait état, et bien sûr, la boutique avec tous les souvenirs qu'on peut y acheter. Nous continuons jusqu'à Tucumcari. Au "Blue Swallow" (le cygne bleu) où nous pouvons voir devant cet ancien motel, quelques vieilles voitures qui ont visiblement inspiré quelques unes des voitures du film "Cars". Nous reprenons notre route vers Santa Rosa ... read more

We said goodbye to Gena, Bob and Milo this morning at the campground. They left ahead of us, on their way to visit El Morro and El Malpais National Monuments in New Mexico. We’ve been to both of those parks, so we got on I-40 and headed east. We stopped twice for fuel and once for lunch. Now that we’re heading in the direction of home, it’s hard to be patient about getting there. We heard from Gena when they reached Grants, NM, they were only about 40 miles behind us. There was the possibility that we would meet up at a campground tonight, but they stopped in Cedar Crest and we continued on to Santa Rosa. We did make one stop this morning at Walnut Canyon National Monument outside of Flagstaff. There are literally hundreds ... read more

Hi everyone!! Today we left for our summer vacation. The day was full of wonderful surprises. :) Some good and some not so good. We started out at 430 am and by 5 am I was remembering all the stuff I forgot to pack. Oh well. Devin and Trevor slept most of the morning. Actually Trevor slept until Amarillo. Amarillo is not really what I expected. It was a lot bigger than I thought it was. The strange thing is that there is ran down, condemned property mixed in with these big beautiful houses. The condemned houses were literally boarded up and next to that house would be a $150,000 house. Then we drove though Wildorado, Texas...not a good thing. There is this cow ranch right next to the road for about 2 miles and the ... read more