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Well it has been a really long time since my last post but being \u201cself quarantined\u201d, not really but we just don\u2019t want to tempt the issue either\u2026 We are staying out of crowds, away from people and other very important things\u2026 but before all this got to be THE THING\u2026 we were busy as normal\u2026<\/p>\n

So jumping way back into early February we made the trip to Denver to see Sherrie\u2019s oncologist and at the same visit she met up with a previous OSU student from Nutrition\u2026 that is now working at the UCHealth center in Aurora\u2026 no names to protect the innocent?<\/p>\n

\"1-NIK_2332\"<\/a> <\/p>\n

Shortly after this we went to Oklahoma to check on things, Her father, and let the damn snow catch up to us\u2026<\/p>\n

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At the Stillwater house\u2026 at least the pond wasn\u2019t frozen over like in Colorado\u2026 but was a pretty snow and it didn\u2019t last long\u2026 <\/p>\n

For all those that think Oklahoma is just wide open prairie and nothing\u2026 I saw these fresh logs at a truck stop there, and it was a local name on the truck\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Pretty big stuff and not sure why the holes in them but assume they will be tied together somehow?<\/p>\n

Of course we have had multiple snow storms, and a few were rather large but not huge like they could have been\u2026<\/p>\n

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This storm was early March\u2026 had a bit of wind s it was deep in spots and bare on spots\u2026  we also made a trip to Denver to watch GS#1 play hockey\u2026 this was just a match before the next weeks tournament\u2026 warm-up I guess?  but they did fine in this one\u2026 <\/p>\n

\"1-NIK_2387\"<\/a>\"1-NIK_2402\"<\/a>\"1-NIK_2404\"<\/a>\"1-NIK_2466\"<\/a>\"1-NIK_2480\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I know you can\u2019t tell which one he is\u2026 but in the first picture, the little guy is GS#2 and the one nearest to the box is GS#2\u2026 He is in all these pictures\u2026 and looking pretty good.  But what do I know, other than he likes it and plays hard\u2026 <\/p>\n

Last weekend we made a short trip to Albuquerque.  I had missed the renewal of my TSA-prepass\/Global entry (nice to have if you are traveling just about anywhere) so I applied to renew and the only location I could get to quickly , cheaply, and would make a nice outing was the ABQ airport TSA office so I signed Sherrie up as well and we both did the interview there last Monday to complete the process.  The trip included a nice drive down the mountains on I-25\u2026 with several stops along the way\u2026 I saw these and couldn\u2019t resist.  They are on the north side of Trinidad..<\/p>\n

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Ok, what was so interesting about this place\u2026?<\/p>\n

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well this for one\u2026 not sure if it was a cross of ghost busters and alien adventure or ? <\/p>\n

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This one\u2026 imagination and putting away all the kid\u2019s dolls? <\/p>\n

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Just testing out the color combinations here?<\/p>\n

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I would have thought maybe a bug theme would have worked better? <\/p>\n

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? I don\u2019t know, a combo of Medusa? ad dragon and other stuff? It is one of those you just can\u2019t UNSEE\u2026<\/p>\n

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a Bus-t-gator\u2026eats kids\u2026 ?<\/p>\n

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A roadside rock with a hole in it\u2026 strange how some volcanic activity worked out\u2026 lot of that along the front of the mountains down I-25, strange geology.  In NE New Mexico there are a lot of \u201cextinct\u201d volcano’s that were \u201ccinder cones\u201d and had lava flows out from below the cone\u2026 Capelin<\/a> is one of the most visible and you can drive to the top\u2026 <\/p>\n

Borrowed from internet to show Capelin\u2026<\/p>\n

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just neat scenery along this road..<\/p>\n

And a show of hard times long gone?<\/p>\n

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It was a bit after this that we turned off to take in Ft Union<\/a><\/p>\n

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It is a national park now\u2026 and since we were about the only visitors I got to ask the ranger some questions\u2026 and learned a few things.  We also set through a short video they had on the Fort and that was a really good video with explanations of the history of it and the area\u2026It was the largest Fort in the west and was used to supply a multiple of other smaller forts from all over the west.  It was set on or near the Santa Fe trail, and It was responsible for maintaining traveler safety during the migrations, commerce with Santa Fe, and it repelled the western threat from the Confederates. Great history there and I had no idea it was that important to the Union control of the west\u2026 <\/p>\n

There were actually three forts\u2026 the first was poorly built and not very secure and didn\u2019t last  but a few years and then the STAR fort shown I outline in the pictorial above was the second, built around the Civil war years and then the much larger Fort above that that was actually for the staging of the Santa Fe trail\u2026 At it\u2019s peak it had from 1200 to 1500 troops stationed there along with families and others\u2026 it had a hospital of 124 beds?  and during it\u2019s operations it served over 2400 patients both military and civilian.  The ranger also said during the peak there were as many as 100 wagons a day going through the Fort on the trail\u2026 so it had to be big.  not much stands today\u2026 some preserved adobe walls that show the immense size of the thing and a lot of the walls of the hospital are still up\u2026 The best thing about this National Park\u2026 IT\u2019s FREE!\u2026 <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know why we had not been there in all these years of being so close and going by it numerous times we just hadn\u2019t stopped in\u2026 <\/p>\n

From there we went on in to LasVegas NM.  we needed gas and Lunch\u2026 of course we stopped at a NM favorite\u2026 Blakes Lotaburger\u2026 there are a bunch of them in NM\u2026<\/p>\n

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and I got a \u201cgreen chili\u201d burger also a NM standard\u2026. It competes well with Whataburger\u2026 but different. <\/p>\n

In Las Vegas we did a little driver around and found a few interesting things\u2026<\/p>\n

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the hotel next to the train station\u2026 been there a while I am thinking\u2026 <\/p>\n

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A top heavy house, or business or ? <\/p>\n

We moved on to ABQ and ran into the rain, snow, rain on the pass by Santa Fe\u2026 so hustled on in\u2026 got our room and then went looking for Green chili\u2026 <\/p>\n

Only place open past 8pm near us was Frontier Restaurant across from UNM\u2026 so we tried it\u2026 it was ok\u2026 not what I had expected but ok..<\/p>\n

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Their green chili is a hamburger stew\u2026 with potatoes\u2026 different but I had had the same way back in the 70\u2019s at a couple of restaurants near Pueblo\u2026 and way out at Cheyenne Wells\u2026 <\/p>\n

We did out interviews the next morning and ran into a bunch of people from Colorado all doing the same things since they couldn\u2019t get into the Denver airport for at least a year to do the interview\u2026 <\/p>\n

After that I went looking for more green chili\u2026 see the direction here and why I was happy to go to ABQ\u2026 ? We went to a highly rated family based place on the SW side of town\u2026 <\/p>\n

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It was good but not much different than what we have here in Monument\u2026 the green chili is more of a sauce and not the pork based \u201cgravy\u201d I was looking for but they did have the \u201cStuffed Sopapillia\u201d I like so I went with that and almost forgot to get a picture, I looked too good to wait\u2026<\/p>\n

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You get the idea\u2026 although it was a lot more before I got that picture\u2026 but I felt good by this time and then remembered \u201cPICTURE FOOL\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t take a picture it didn\u2019t happen right\u2026 but if your half way through and get the picture it must have been pretty good\u2026 Sherrie had the Chicken Enchiladas and they were pretty good too\u2026 yea we traded portions for tasting\u2026 <\/p>\n

We had driven by OLD TOWN as well and it was busy but not overly so\u2026 spotted a couple of museums we need to go back for some day\u2026 and then figured we better get on the road if we were to get home or near home by dark\u2026 so off we went\u2026<\/p>\n

WE bought gas just north of ABQ at the KEWA Pueblo turn off \u2013 HWY 22 crossing off I25.  I saw the sign and hit the brakes and got off I-25 and Sherrie what was wrong\u2026 I said if the sign is right we get gas\u2026 $1.88.  Everything before and after had been at least 30 cents more and some 60 cents more a gallon\u2026 hey get it cheap when you can\u2026 If it were a bit earlier and we wanted some turquoise we should have made the trip on up to the Pueblo as this is one of the higher rated turquoise jewelry tribes and they have their own mine\u2026 but we have plenty of turquoise jewelry and it was late\u2026 <\/p>\n

We then went on up through Santa Fe and then up the Valley highway into the San Luis Valley, since we were familiar with that and wanted to see the changes\u2026 one thing I don\u2019t remember is all the Casino\u2019s north of Santa Fe\u2026 there is one every 5 or 10 miles\u2026 and on the way we passed <\/p>\n

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Camel rock<\/a>\u2026 and there is a Casino<\/a> on the other side of the road\u2026<\/p>\n

In that area as we went through small village after small village I got this one too\u2026<\/p>\n

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cool old church\u2026 <\/p>\n

I believer this was in Espanola\u2026 as there were a lot of murals along the way and I didn\u2019t get near enough pictures..<\/p>\n

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We traveled up and at some places you could see the Rio Grande \u2013 Grand Canyon\u2026 starts up in Colorado between San Luis and Manassas and runs down almost to Espanola\u2026 <\/p>\n

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We stopped in Taos as Sherrie had read up on a nice yarn shop there so we made that and of course she got some special yarn to make something for her oncologist Dr\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Not being hungry since we had overloaded on various green chili things we moved on\u2026 although I think there was a good place in Taos but we passed that up for now\u2026 we traveled on up through San Luis and along Wild Horse Mesa<\/a> we did spot a group of wild horses\u2026 in all the years I had not seen the wild ones out in the open\u2026 and of course by the time I saw them it was too late for a pic\u2026  In the 70\u2019s when we lived there the Wild Horse Mesa was a big development and they had \/ have lake front lots for sale and I guess they sold a lot of stuff up there, we did see a few houses and there were a few left over \u201chippy\u201d spots on the lower areas out front\u2026 but the roads were all really poor now and I am not sure how the better stuff has survived up on top and toward the lake\u2026 likely they come in from San Luis on the north side and up along the lake? I never made it up and over to see the development as we couldn\u2019t afford it back then and even thought it was a bit out of reach as they were not providing any services other than some scratched out roads\u2026 I know at one time they had scratched off a runway for people to fly in but not sure what that is now\u2026 I did look it up and there is still some info on the Real Estate?  and I guess you do still come in from the west?  probably still a lot of stuff available<\/a>\u2026ha!<\/p>\n

Interesting stuff now with Google maps and sat pictures\u2026 I looked it all up and things come back to memory..<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Wild+Horse+Mesa+Community+Center\/@37.094581,-105.4336228,15864m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x8716e7a78096ff55:0x9e81e7b85dccd473!8m2!3d37.0875779!4d-105.4393708<\/a><\/p>\n

They have a community building and I see a few other houses up close to the lake but not much else and plenty for sale \u2018CHEAP\u201d\u2026 then it hit me about another development of the 70\u2019s \u2026 there was to be a ski area built south of Amalia up near Rio Costilla\u2026 and by the arial I can see the scratched out development and they even had scratched out the ski area but I think it was on the dry side and never took off either\u2026 It was called Ski Rio\u2026 all the big ideas with out a lot of real planning and knowledge and a lot of wasted money\u2026 or maybe they sold just enough to capture their costs? not sure<\/p>\n

When we pulled through San Luis I looked, and yes, Emma\u2019s is still there and still for sale like it has been for the past 10 years or more.  it was a great place to eat, great food, with a lot of local atmosphere\u2026 would be shut down in todays inspections\u2026 the screen door had a hole in it for the dog to come and go\u2026 she had a huge wood stove in the back with like 8 or more cover holes on it\u2026 that she prepared the tortillas and some really great enchiladas\u2026 but that was in the 70\u2019s and the south 2\/3 was a bar with a semi dividing wall open at the top.  They say it was a wild place on weekends\u2026 I only went at noon on work days down that way as I don\u2019t speak the proper language.  <\/p>\n

On up the road out of San Luis we could see the familiar Blanc Peak\u2026 <\/p>\n

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a pretty important maker for the San Luis valley\u2026 <\/p>\n

We then took hwy 160 east over to I-25 and the short route home and one the east side got a great pic of the Spanish Peaks\u2026 <\/p>\n

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was a lot of burned out area on both sides of La Veta pass from the recent big fires up there\u2026 but that happens, when idiots get free\u2026 <\/p>\n

It was a great , but short trip\u2026 we need to do it again going the other direction and maybe down the west side of the valley and maybe take in the train rides in the valley?  there are two there now\u2026 that will have to be planned out soon\u2026 <\/p>\n

This has gotten way too long so to close\u2026 this is what the CDC means in how we should now greet people\u2026 <\/p>\n

\"cronagreetings\"<\/a><\/p>\n

WD0AJG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Well it has been a really long time since my last post but being \u201cself quarantined\u201d, not really but we just don\u2019t want to tempt the issue either\u2026 We are staying out of crowds, away from people and other very important things\u2026 but before all this got to be THE THING\u2026 we were busy as normal\u2026<\/p>\n

So jumping way back into early February we made the trip to Denver to see Sherrie\u2019s oncologist and at the same visit she met up with a previous OSU student from Nutrition\u2026 that is now working at the UCHealth center in Aurora\u2026 no names to protect the innocent?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Shortly after this we went to Oklahoma to check on things, Her father, and let the damn snow catch <\/p>\n

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