Through New Mexico

Before we left Colorado, we took one last
trip up to the little lake behind the house
where Vaughn caught two tiny fish and
Carol hiked while Hope and Guapo just hung out.

The swollen Rio Chama near Abiquiu, about eight miles down a
once dusty, now muddy road through spectacular red, yellow, gray,
green, blue, and white desert rocks and dirt.

Cholla cactus on the banks of the Rio Chama

Cottonwoods beginning to change into their yellows

Looking up-river on the Chama.  Rain included.

Carol hiking down the part of the Continental Divide
Trail that takes off from a bridge over the Rio Chama.

Sustenance.

Driver and her tools on the way out of the desert.

The Truck.