Location: Army Corps of Engineers Campground near Aquiui, New Mexico
We leave the Chaco time warp and head back to the present going East and North toward the Rocky Mountains. The camper is covered inside and out with a fine grit from all the wind and blowing dust. As are we! Try as we might to seal it out, it still manages to find ways in and we're getting tired of it. As beautiful as the desert is, and as much as we've enjoyed it this trip, we find ourselves longing for trees, green grass, and, yes, humidity.
Hey! There's some standing water!
Ooh - a patch of green grass!
A creek! Look! The water is actually moving!
Dandelions! (Wait a minute - do we really miss dandelions?)
Trees! Woohoo! Trees and grass and creeks and no blowing dust! Yay!
We
begin to climb some winding roads into the mountains and spend one last
night in that space between desert and mountain. It's breezy, and the
trees are small and stunted, but at last we can go outside and breathe.
Farewell desert, hello mountains, and on to Colorado!
More soon!
