Mary and I love to travel. I am going to do a blog about our trips and how calming it can be.
Recent trips
July 6 was my birthday and when Mary ask me what I wanted for my birthday, I said " I want to get in the car and drive until I get to some cool mountains, check in a hotel and spend a long weekend doing nothing but looking at Gods great country."
Yep, we got in the car on July 3rd, drove from Dallas to Tucumcarri, New Mexico, got a nice room in a Holiday Inn Express. Got up late, had a good breakfast at Denny's, and drove on to Eagles Nest New Mexico. We arrived about noon, and as we drove thru town, we noticed everyone was lined up along the street. I told Mary we were either in a parade or one is about to happen. (July 4th of course). We found a local restaurant, parked out back in the only available spot next to the trash container, and carried our lawn chairs up to the street. You got it, we saw the neatest parade, complete with antlers on the handle bars of motor bikes to fire truck throwing out candy.
We went to get something to eat and all the restaurants were closed, in honor of the "Fire Department annual barbecue. So if we wanted to eat we went to the community center and had barbecue with the fire department. Well, it was great and fun to sit and visit with the locals.
After lunch we drove on up to Angel Fire and got a room at a resort on the side of the mountain, summer rates at a ski resort. Nice place.
That night we drove back to Eagles Nest to see the fireworks displey out over the lake. Got home late and crashed for the night.
At 6:00 AM we got up, went to see the Hot Air Balloon launch, up close and even visited with the people participating. It was beautiful, about 15 Hot Air Balloons rising together.
Then breakfast at a packed local resturant we found on a back street. Great food.
After that it got better, we went to a festival of arts and crafts up by the ski lift at our hotel, then drove to Black Lake, just to see what it was. On the way back we saw what looked like a old lean too, or a semi log cabin with a sign that said Winery. Well being wine lovers we went in to take look. Wow, we found the local joint where everyone hangs out and listens to live music and sips some wine. What fun, I had several request for songs, "Proud Mary", "Bobby McGee" and others and they played and sang everyone on for me. What fun!
The next day we drove the "loop" from Angel Fire, up to Taos, Red River and back, taking in the canyon on the way and enjoying along the way, returning to Angel Fire that evening. Great trip and great scenery.
The next day we decided to extend our trip one more day and checked out of the Hotel, drove down to Santa Fe, checked in at the Hampton Inn, and went shopping at the square, coming back in time to have a nice dinner at Olive Garden.
We drove back the next day, arriving home tired, but relaxed and realizing we had just had a great trip that was spur of the moment and enjoying this great country of ours.
Next Trip
We are going to Hawaii next, one of our favorite places, and I will write more about that trip while there on when I get back, if anyone is interested.
Fall is almost here, get out, drive the back roads of America and enjoy the fresh air and beauty and freedom we have here in the Good Old USA.
God Bless
Pete and Mary
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