June 29, 2006

Jim here for my last turn. Last night the kids said they wanted to get on the road as early as possible. I wasn’t sure how serious they would be when I woke them this morning at 6:45AM. To my amazement, we broke camp, said goodbye to the humming birds, and were on the road by 8:00! We did a couple things today. First, we spent some time at the Taos Pueblo. It was very interesting to see a real pueblo. Some of these buildings were 1000 years old and have been maintained through all these years. The Adobe style of architecture in New Mexico gives the small towns we have been driving through a very unique look, especially the town of Taos. We decided to skip seeing the Rio Grande Gorge but headed the wrong direction on highway 64 and ended up there anyway. It was worth the extra 10 miles. That’s all we could stand. Our next destination is home. It seemed to take forever to get through the last of the mountains to reach Cimerron, New Mexico, “Where the Rockies Meet he Plains.” We had lunch in Cimerron and left around 3pm. We decided to get as far into Colorado as we could before calling it a day. We got farther than we thought, North Platt, Nebraska! We should be home early on Saturday and are looking forward to seeing everyone.