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... 7,857 miles(that's 224 gallons of gas @ $582.40). All that and I'm proud to say I've never worn a pair of underwear more than one day.Very homesick,can almost smell the ocean. As you can tell from the pictures,nothing really going on now.We're serious about getting home. Wouldn't trade a minute of it but I'm never driving again. Linda's going to drive me like Miss Daisy for thr rest of my life.

... had a a lot of character and, although the rooms were a bit basic and dark, at least they were reasonably clean.

We dropped off our bags and headed straight for the towncentre (via Taco Bell for lunch, a crime I know, but actually quite good!), about 2 miles up the road. We had been expecting Santa Fe to be really cool, and it didn't disappoint. The old narrow streets and main plaza looked pretty idyllic in the warm sunshine and there was a chilled 'hippy' atmosphere ...

... had a couple of blankets from our train journeys and decided we would use these and sleep on top of the covers.

Antonito itself was bit of a spooky place. Only two cafes and a couple of motels in the middle of nowhere. There also seemed to be a lot of drunk, redneck hunters wearing strange camouflage gear staying at our motel (not sure what they were hunting) and Laura couldn't stop thinking about where their guns were! Hopefully the next place wouldn't be so bad...

... Wettermaessig haben wir uns nicht den besten Tag ausgesucht...es war ein bisschen cloudy und seeehr windy...so dass wir Mund und Ohren voller Sand hatten :-) Natuerlich haben wir eine der hoechsten Duenen persoenlich erklommen. Das Hochklettern war saumaessig anstrengend, aber das Herunterrennen, Purzel, Huepfen, Jumpen und Rollen war ein unglaubliches Gaudi...das haette stundenlang so weitergehen koennen :-)

... no thanks. We would have before, but the trail was much better now and a camp ground was 2 miles away, which conveniently had an old log cabin to shelter in. It wasn’t anything more than 4 walls and a roof but it was heaven after such a hectic day. What we had forgotten was we were out of water. The map instructions said all river and creek water was contaminated due to the rich iron and minerals in the rock so we collected some snow to use for dinner. It didn ...

... with it a wonderful and vibrant market. Now you can stay in the heart of Santa Fe, shop at the market for fresh food, and prepare your own meal if you stay at a short term rental unit like the units that are available at El Corazon De Santa Fe for example. Whether your interest is the opera, arts, good food or simply the great outdoors, a visit to Santa Fe is one you will not regret.

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... amazing with hundreds of colours in rings.

So onto Santa Fe, now that is a nice town. It is hard to say why exactly because there are no natural wonders and no feats of engineering (apart from a God-inspired 720 degree spiral staircase). It just has that nice small town feel in a big town and has about 500 art galleries which are all fascinating to go round (well the 5 we saw were).

Next day it was more driving on to Roswell ...

Greg's Version:

There is not much to say about the morning and early afternoon today. We stayed in our room on the Southwest Chief except to eat breakfast and lunch which were not very good. We rolled into Albuquerque almost a half an hour early.

Here is where the comedy of errors begins. There was no obvious signage for baggage claim. The man at the ticket counter told me that it would be outside and to the right. But there was no one in sight so I ...

... to drive the quarter mile over and back the bridge and do a spot of shopping! The Royal Gorge is known as the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas river, the Arkansas river runs wild through a 40-50 foot channel, while 1,053 feet above hangs the Royal Gorge Bridge, the highest suspension bridge in the world. The gentle yet undeniable swaying of the bridge ensures Ad is glad we choose to drive across and not walk the bridge! As we travel through Southern Colorado ...