Albuquerque, NM-May 8, 2014

I almost do not need to tell you it was windy today. We were sprinkled on a couple of times but not enough to amount to anything. But that wind. To quote the lady in the office here, "This winter just won't let go". That's very true.

The drive from Williams never grows tiring. The area just east of that city is all pine trees. No deciduous trees at all. And because there are so many pine trees there's no underbrush in the forest. It's just fascinating and inviting. I told Jerry I would love to walk through there one day.

Then eventually the area transforms to flat land with not much vegetation at all. Then the unique mountains appear near Winslow. Then you pass into lava land around Grants. Finally back into the higher elevations, up and down passes and into Albuquerque.

Those indentions that look like caves may or may not be that.

I wonder if that's where the roaring water gouged out the banks

when the earth was being formed. That's merely a thought that

wanders through my mind when I look at this. It's actually quite beautiful.

 

The most interesting part of the drive to me is the area that's completely

covered in lava from a volcanic eruption eons of time ago. There's so much

of the lava rock on the ground it is absolutely astonishing.

 

The only lava that appears to have been moved is what it took

to build the interstate. Tons of the rock is right up next to the road.

This is a fascinating area that I never grow tired of seeing.

 

We have two more days of hard driving to get to Colorado before it snows there on Sunday and Monday. We hope that the weather will turn nice once we get there so we can play outdoors with Hannah.