Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest
free camping
En route, we saw some people on their own trips:
-- A couple of young dudes all bare-chested and drenched in sweat climbing the canyon roads on their bikes, loaded with camping gear.
-- A middle-aged man walking the road & hitched to his back were one of those little bike trailers people affix behind their bikes in order to haul their kids around.. except his was filled with gear... Whatever it takes.
View from our campsite:
evening light
morning light
she climby
she climby
El Malpais
natural bridge
sand bluffs
the black stuff in the valley is hardened lava flows
the mountains in the background are volcanoes
can't stop climbing
beauty rocks
self-timed
ruins
Our destination in New Mexico was Jenny - Sancho's sister Anni's best friend from Philadelphia. She's really from Matamoras, PA, which means she's my one-hour radius neighbor from back east. She lives north of Santa Fe in the small town of Chimayo. It's beautiful there.
Chimayo
Jenny has a great dog named Bowie and a cat named Miranda and a kitten named Booger. We were in heaven.
puppy love
our hike was too steep for baby Bowie
Jenny showed us a great time - first off, she took us to the spa that she works at and finagled us a free hot tub/cold plunge/sauna session. Hell yeah.
We slept in her woodstove-heated home in Chimayo. We visited El Santuario de Chimayo. She took us to the goat farm she used to work at, and we had campfires and homemade wine with some locals. She set up her friend to change my oil and filter. We went to a flea market with lots of crafts where I purchased some Christmas presents. Basically, she hooked us up. Thanks, Jenny!
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