Pics along the way

Ok, time to catch y'all up . . finally purchased a card reader for my camera.

Here is a handful of pics from Oklahoma to New Mexico, including where we broke down just out of Albuquerque. We lost the hitch pin on the Exursion and almost lost the u-haul trailer.

Thanks to a fellow traveler who was hauling race cars back to california, who lent us a hitch pin . . we were back on the road in record time.

Windmill in Weatherford, Oklahoma

The HUGE cross in Groom Texas on I-40/Route 66 . . largest cross in the Western Hemisphere

Beautiful red mesas, just out of Sky City, New Mexico . . the colors were AMAZING!

Jill, taking five (or 45, or 90 . . .) nothing like napping in the sun on a road trip

Fixing the hitch pin (in the rain)

Last New Mexico post . . animals

Here is a "Cantalope" on the open range

I can't remember which one of our kids first referred to "Antelope" as "Cantalopes" . . . the name has stuck and now (at least in our family) they are officially all Cantalopes now.

There were Elk everywhere . . . these were on a side of a mountain just outside of Angel Fire. Have you ever heard the sound an elk makes? . . . check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYzWmKlZtrU (not my YouTube post, but what a cool sound) to hear it in the wild is AMAZING!

Wild Turkeys . . when I pointed at a flock on my side of the road and my husband glanced over to look . . two flew in front of the truck from his side . . if he didn't slam on the brakes, I would be posting about that turkey in our windshield that we ate for dinner!

Yummm . . food over a fire

Why does food cooked over a campfire and outdoors taste so much better?


We had our usual "Breakfast Burritos" (sausage, potatoes, eggs) wrapped in those fabulous fresh flour tortillas we got in Taos and a big pot of coffee. (Yummm)

Dinner was leftover tamales and fresh caught trout baked over the fire . . . doesn't get much better than that!

Oooo the pretty flowers

So many pretty flowers . . . I spent more time taking pictures than fishing (obviously, I am better at that).

Check out the bee on the cactus flower! That was a lucky shot!!

Here are a few more of the pretty New Mexico flowers.


The white ones are really cool, each flower opens up for one day only then dies. The petals look like hearts.

I love fishing . . . at least I think I do

I get my pole out, patiently get it ready, attach a lure . . . cast it out, catch a bush, yank hard, catch myself. Lose the lure in a beaver pond (throw a fit) . . . . walk 2 miles through the sticker weeds (catch poison ivy . . thank GOD I didn't squat in it) got goosed in the ass with a monster thistle bush, fell in the creek (twice) and after 2 days . . . catch one of these . . . finally.

The picture is much more impressive . . I think it was all of 5 inches long LOL. This was one of ONLY TWO that I caught the entire trip (good thing I don't have to depend on fishing to feed myself)

I fished my BUTT off . . . my husband approaches a stream and the fish throw themselves at him . . . what is up with that?? (see the fish whisperer below)

Ahhh . . just to get away

We decided to take a weekend off and disappear from the world (no computers, no cell phones . . .) We drove to Taos, New Mexico and stocked up on provisions to go camping and fishing.


First stop was licenses in town and asked a local where to buy the best tamales. Everyone said the same thing . . the guy in the red pickup of the Super Saver parking lot LOL (I didn't get a pic . . dang).




While we were waiting for him to show up, we went inside the grocery store and were delighted to find a tortilla machine cranking out fresh flour tortillas! (bought a dozen of those too). We bought a dozen tamales, half pork, half chicken & cheese and porked out eating tamales and fresh hot tortillas all the way up the mountain YUMMMMM


Before leaving town, we stopped and bought a ristra from the Chile Factory for our friends Lori & Ray who are back home watering our plants and checking on the livestock (thanks guys!) (she promised to cook something wonderful with them . . I am holding her to it!)

Taos is a gorgeous little town, flowers everywhere! I especially love the Hollyhocks, I've forgotton how much I like them and have decided to plant a patch when we get home.

There is art EVERYWHERE you look, gardens, rooftops . . even doors for sale at an importers store becomes art!

Tomorrow . . FISHING pics!