We started our day with a fantastic breakfast cooked right here at this magnificent campground. Pancakes were free and Miss Shirley had those, I had eggs, sausages and home fries. This was a great addition to this already great campground.
After breakfast we headed out to do some touring. We headed North up to Santa Fe.
. I’m not sure my ears have popped yet as we were over 8,000 feet in elevation. To get a gist about how high that is we are parked at 5050 feet right now, Hyytinen Hollow is about 620 feet.
Santa Fe was a wonderful experience. The city was founded in 1610 and is now celebrating its 400th birthday. The narrow brick streets are filled with old adobe buildings. I took a few pictures of some of the areas we walked and shopped as tourists.
I’m going to back track some here and refresh your memories with our trip to Santa Fe. A few days back when I was in Dodge City I visited the site of the Santa Fe Trail ruts in the prairie. The Santa Fe Trail ended right where I am taking the above picture from.
After eating lunch in a great place called the ORE House and a margarita or 2 we went to see one of the most impressive things I have seen.
The Inside of this Chapel is beautiful in its own right. But having the Miraculous Stairway made it so unexpectedly beautiful.
I’m going to insert a link here on this magnificent staircase.
I have a couple other pictures of the church to add to all its glory.
I didn’t cut the guy out because I wanted to show the stained glass windows.
The outside of the church is just as impressive.
After this tourist stop we decided to head back to the campground. I took another picture of the scenery, which I am deciding that New Mexico is a very pretty state in this country of ours.
Still huge plains and flat lands with glorious mountains surrounding them just stretching toward the sky.
Tomorrow we have a long day in the truck driving about 6 hours or so up into the mountains of Arizona to Williams.
If I have internet I will post my blog for all you wonderful followers. Time for my glass of red.
wow that church is gorgeous
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