About That Santa Fe (September 10 - 17)

Hello Family and Friends,

Our last days in Colorado Springs involved a football game and friends! Sadly, USAFA lost to the TCU HornFrogs! Frog fans were super supportive of the men and women in uniform at USAFA. They were great opponents! Congrats Frogs!!! ( I have to say all of that because I am from Ft. Worth and have several TCU grads in the family, including my parents.)  Below are some of the pics from a very patriotic pre game show.

Cadets march onto the field.

Jumping with smoke!

All flags of each branch of the military are represented here.

There is nothing like OLD GLORY!

This flag took up the entire football field.

This RV life is great in that you run into friends from previous stops! Imagine our surprise when we found Butch and Pam (friends from Davis Monthan AFB Fam Camp) at the USAFA RV park at the Academy. We spent three days with them and had so much fun. We look to Butch and Pam for all sorts of help as they are seasoned full time RVers. They had us over for dinner the night before we left.

Butch and Pam

Our trip to Santa Fe went very smoothly. On Wednesday, we left the beautiful Rampart Range of the Rocky Mountains, driving south on Interstate 25, into the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Santa Fe. Along the way we spotted herds of antelope "playing" in the fields. Our site for the next two weeks is at Santa Fe Skies. We are on the south side of Santa Fe. At night we are up high enough to see the twinkly lights of the downtown, Plaza area. Our first day in Santa Fe was spent on a walking tour of the plaza area with a local guide. Below are a few pics of the Plaza. The first picture shows wares being sold in front of the Palace of the Governors (one of the oldest buildings in the country). The second picture shows the Plaza square directly across from the Palace of the Governors.

Friday found us at the Georgia O'Keefe Museum. Unfortunately the museum was closed for a change in artwork. Fortunately we were able to join a tour that showed us the artist's personal collection of books, drawing implements and her clothing located in a separate building. This is something that is not normally open to the public so we were thrilled to learn more about the artist via her personal collections. We will head back to the museum when they reopen next week. The rest of the morning was spent browsing the many shops in the Plaza area.

If you study Georgia O' Keefe, you cannot help but be fascinated by shapes. Notice the bark of this very old tree in front of the O"Keefe workshop.

Saturday morning we were able to get our first bike ride in by cycling along a path that took us straight into the downtown Plaza area. The Plaza was busy with all ages and it was fun to see the sights by bike. Tomorrow we hope to visit El Rancho de las Golonrinas. This "Ranch of the Swallows" founded 300 years ago, in 1710. It was the last stopping spot on El Camino Real before reaching Santa Fe. El Camino Real ran from Mexico City to Santa Fe for several hundred years. 


We are grateful to have two weeks in Santa Fe. We look forward to cycling, hiking, playing with Bear and touring the many fascinating places that are found in this area of the Southwest. Thank you for checking in with us. We appreciate your interest in our never ending vacation.