Oct 2006

So sorry to forward these but I am on someone else's computer and I wanted to share some of our last great adventure with you. We spent the night at Niobrara Wildlife refuge in NE and it was beautiful. We rode to a trailhead on our bikes then hiked to the waterfall and then went up above the river valley. Nice weather so far. We are in South Dakota on Mark's farm and hunting pheasants and enjoying fall weather in the Dakota's. It is a grand adventure so far.

Our test run is definetely working out some bugs. Rooster, the kids and I are traveling the beautiful sw mountains of New Mexico. We spent the first night on Elephant Butte at the South Monticello point campground almost by ourselves. Incredible moonlight on the water and just a few bugs to remind us we were camping. I am really enjoying the small size of the Airstream kitchen and the stove and oven work great.
She pulls like the ads say. We choose to go over Emory pass to our next destination which was a private hotspring a friend invited us to. It is here we discovered that Dodge automatics are not the best so we will be spending some time in Alb getting it replaced - shoot. The hot springs were great. The road between San Lorenzo and Deming is worth the drive. If you go that way take yourself to the City of Rocks, it is a geologic maze. Great in the moonlight I am sure and also take kids, they will love it. We are in Silver City today where we did laundry and shopped a bit. This weekend will be spent with musicians in Glenwood, yummm my favorite. Hope the winds are warming your spirit too!