Our campground hosts from the past month, Sam and his wife Heather.
We didn’t get on the road until noon because Tony & Sam (mostly Sam) had to scrape the ice off the slides so we could retract them. Note – blow the snow off before it freezes overnight into a solid sheet of ice. Drove south and then east crossing Monarch Pass at 11,312 feet. Beautiful, beautiful. The Sangre De Cristo Mountain range was to our west. Pictures of them this morning from our campground.
We headed from Westcliffe, Colorado through New Mexico and had lunch at K-Bob’s in Raton, New Mexico. The terrain changed immensely from the lush mountains to high dessert with sagebrush. Ranches with dry gullies all in them. It is easy to see why it takes so much land for grazing cattle out here. We started seeing pronghorn again and I saw the rack of a huge elk in the back of a hunter’s truck. We arrived in Clayton, New Mexico around 5:00 PM, staying at the RV Park. We are about 10 miles from the Texas border. Tomorrow we will head across the panhandle of Texas into Oklahoma.
Sometimes it hard to take pictures from the inside of the truck driving 60 mph!
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