Yesterday, we pulled away from our campsite—looking out over the Angel’s Peak Badlands—and we headed north, out of New Mexico. For me, it was hard to say goodbye.
At this last campsite, a spot Tracy chose for access to Chaco Culture, we were on BLM land looking at snow capped mountains in the distance, the San Juans, I believe.
We were there long enough to see the canyon under clouds and sun.
The low sunshine on the canyon at sunrise and sunset was most beautiful.
The sunset over the buttes in the canyon was so large I couldn’t get it all in my camera’s view. You can see two buttes in the shadows.
A few random pictures: The land around us is mostly open for grazing, as it is in many places in New Mexico, but only when we got a little north did we see grass, and then horses along with the cattle.
Right where we camped are many small natural gas wells, and nearby is a large set of fields (a “land farm”) where polluted earth from gas and oil drilling is spread out for the sun to detoxify it.
I took this pic of our first sight of grass and water at the Abiquiu Reservoir, damming the Rio Chama.
You can tell that the father north we go the greener the land gets.
By the time you read this, we’ve moved north into Utah, and I miss New Mexico, already.
Such stunning scenery, I can see why you didn’t want to leave. Polluted earth aside.
New Mexico is on my bucket list, I’ve always wanted to visit Taos.
New Mexico is definitely the land of Enchantment! You discovered great places there and we have, as well. Great pictures.