It was an amazingly beautiful day today. We packed up the RV and headed out at 9:15 to meet up with Ken and Nancy in their RV. We have come to Antonito CO to take the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad trip tomorrow. The drive was incredibly beautiful with lots of red stone formations. I have several photos that I can’t wait to upload.
We stopped at Ghost Ranch Piedra Lumbre Visitors Center in the middle of all this beauty. There are many exhibits here including an impressive one of Georgia O’Keeffe items. She lived in this area and painted much of the landscape and churches. After we toured the center, we had lunch at the end of the parking lot in the shade of Ken and Nancy’s RV. The view was truly awesome. We chatted and ate until we knew we had to go on.
We passed the Church at Cebolla which is the subject of an O’Keeffe painting that we saw at NC Museum of Art this year. I recognized the church and managed to get a photo as we whizzed by. We left the beautiful rocky red scenery to climb over some high mountains to get to Antonito. The scenery changed dramatically to large fir trees interspersed with aspens whose leaves are changing color.
We finally arrived at the Conejos River Campground where we are spending tonight and tomorrow night. It is a plain campground, but we have all the hookups and it isn’t crowded. We had margaritas that Nancy made along with some nuts and M&Ms complements of Bill. Nancy had brought leftovers and we ate them outside. Luckily she still had some of the great mac and cheese and some of the black bean salad, so I was a happy camper.
We took a walk down to the Conejos River that runs not too far from the campground. It was a lovely night, and a perfect ending to a wonderful day!
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