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New Mexico is just as cool as I imagined
... at scaling things, especially downward. A small dog, a little chihuahua, decided to join us on the way down, however. She brazenly took a flying leap off one rise that as I was attempting to lower myself down. She skittered away, apparently unaffected by her fall. I thought she was going to try to jump into someone's car, either ours or another tourists, the way she kept trotting after all of us, all the way back to the visitor's center. Alas, no extra dog right now.
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First day of driving
... stay, but it was kitschy good fun for a little photo tour and dinner. The hotel is on 'historic' Route 66 and apparently hosted a number of early movie stars. I took pictures of some I knew (including the great Katherine Hepburn). My favorite are the head shots of the actors which include their six-shooters. I love a good ole'-fashioned western. See especially John Wayne, looking a little chunky in his picture.
Our final resting place for today is a KOA in Grants, ...
Hot, Cold, and High Up
... car was all set. After the lube job, we headed out to El Malpias. As we were driving out to the park, we saw signs for Bandera Volcano and Ice Caves - ICE caves in the desert...mmmm that’s crazy. We thought that we had to check this out, and it ended up being two miles past the park visitor center. Perfect. We pulled in and parked at the trading post, paid $20 - it was privately owned, but considered part of the El Malpias lava flow - but it ...
Heading West
... wind. I didn't mention the mountain lions and bears that inhabit the area! At the top we looked down into the volcano crater. Bandera is one of 29 volcanoes in the area.
We then took the trail past the Trading Post to the Ice Cave. Along the trail we saw a small ice box cave which a local family used as their refrigerator before electricity. We also saw some Anasazi Indian Ruins where ancient peoples had built a wall in front of ...
El Morro National Monument
... as a twinkle in his eye as he described this National Monument to us.
El Morro is located 42 miles south of Interstate 40 and you have to travel through the western side of El Malpais to get to it. El Morro itself is a cuesta, a long formation gently sloping upward and then dropping off abruptly at one end. It is made up of sandstone layers the were deposited by ...
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