April 27

We went out to breakfast with Ken and Betty this morning. Afterwards, we drove into Santa Fe, and John went to REI to look for some new hiking pants. We, finally, left the city around noon. Drove north to Abiquiqu. It is the town where Georgia O’Keefe owned a house where she spent autumns and winters. We checked on a tour of the house, but the 1:00 tour was filled, and there was only one more space on the 3:30 tour, so we decided to skip it. We saw the house from the highway and took pictures. We had driven through the town itself, but her home was behind a long adobe wall.

We stopped at a gift shop and bought some Native American designed placemats and some O’Keefe postcards.

Next we stopped at Ghost Ranch, which is where she did a lot of her paintings the other two seasons of the year. It is now owned by the Presbyterian Church, The tour was at 1:30, so we missed that one also. Did go through the historical museum, where there was an art show going on with some beautiful hand-woven rugs on display. Then we toured the Archeology museum, which was mostly dinosaur and fossil examples which had been found on the ranch property.

We stopped to take pictures of the Scenic Railway cars and station in Chama and had

hot dogs and ice cream at a local store.

Drove through some pretty country heading west to Navajo Lake State Park and Dam.

We have a campsite overlooking the lake. We have electric, but no internet, so I am typing this into the “Pages” program and will copy it and paste it into the blog whenever I am able.

Headed for Kanab, Utah and then Kolob Canyon tomorrow. The National Weather Service is predicting high winds and rain/snow starting tomorrow night, so there may not be much hiking going on.

More from the road tomorrow….

John and Elaine