Fort Union National Monument Watrous

We decided that we would stay another night in Santa Fe cause we found out that one of the national parks nearby was giving away free solar viewing glasses for the annual solar eclipse (which we had been trying to get ahold of) - score! When we got up we made coffee, tea and cereal. Gabe got out the map and figured out our route for the day to end …

A second Northern New Mexico site along I-25 that I somehow missed in my previous travels is Fort Union National Monument, a few miles off the highway just north of Las Vegas, NM. And like Pecos, Fort Union is only the remains of what once was, a large ...