Not our house.....but a nearby home with thousands of lights. They are an inspiration to Darrell (Clark), and he is now out taking advantage of the Fry's 1/2 off sale on Xmas lights.

Amber bagged her first buck in the mountains of Montana. She now has a stocked larder.

Happy Thanksgiving!!! The Halls came for a visit and secretly smuggled Amber in...they picked her up at the airport without us knowing it (Erica was having dinner with a friend in Phoenix, or so she said). Thanksgiving morning Amber walked out of the bedroom, and our jaws hit the floor! We had a great visit, and learned all about her latest deer hunting expedition.

August 16 - We leave Durango for the slide southward towards home. We flew through Pagosa Springs, through Chama, NM, and on to our campsite just south of Angel Fire, NM. That was a whole other adventure in itself. Probably because it was a long, windy drive, and it rained cats and dogs on the way. Therefore, no pictures. We did go into Taos and visited Kit Carson's home. We went from there to just outside Santa Fe, where we explored and shopped some more. From there, we stopped at Darrell's cousin Dick and wife Marcia's in Albuquerque for a few days of visiting. From Albuquerque, we headed for the White Mountains, and Show-Low, where we stayed at a really nice campground there called Fool Hollow. It was a nice way to return to the desert heat.
Now we're back at the ranch, laundry done, and ready to go again!

One last visit to the Durango-Silverton narrow gauge rr. Here at its home base in Durango, it has a museum, with lots of artifacts and photos from way back when.

These ruins date back to 1100-1300 a.d.

Hovenweep is located along the edge of a canyon.

We ended our trip with a visit to Hovenweep, which is a national park, actually located right over the border in Utah. The whole four corners area is populated with ancient pueblo ruins, some of which are unreachable by the average person, or on private property.

Ruins at Painted Hand Pueblo. These places were in the middle of absolutely nowhere. Good thing we had the GPS.

We discovered that near our campground in Southwestern Colorado, there are many pueblo ruins. We spent a day exploring Canyon of the Ancients. Here is a giant kiva at Lowry Pueblo Ruins.