At this point I was concerned that in crossing from Arizona
to New Mexico we may, or may not be crossing a time zone. Since it would be
losing an hour we played safe and put our clocks forward. As it happens Arizona
and New Mexico are both on Mountain time, but Arizona does not using daylight
saving time, so we left Arizona at 10.00 and arrived in New Mexico at 11.00.
The drive again covered some very interesting desert country (no that is not a
contradiction in terms, as most desert is interesting. Although “I-Spy
something beginning with ‘T’” (trees) in the forest area gave way to “I-Spy
something beginning with R’” (rocks) in the desert regions
First stop in NM is Zuni, the ancestral home of the Zuni
Pueblo People. We stopped in the town and had an interesting time of learning
at the visitor centre, as well as learning about the people we found out where
we could get a cup of coffee/tea and also that the pueblo village was closed
for private ceremonies, so we couldn’t see much here. Anyway we had a cup of
coffee/tea and continued East to El Morro National Monument. Doesn’t look much
on the map, but it is an amazing place. First of all the campground is free, we
managed to get the last site that was big enough for our rig, so it was a good
job we had set out early (compensating for the time loss across time zones).
El Morro - fab. I'm glad to see you've got us updated with your blogs, was missing reading where you are. Am now reminiscing and bringing up my old photos to remind me of these places.
ReplyDeleteI have not digested the photos from El Morro yet, so will catch up on that today hopefully.
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