Day 6 & 7

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Day 6: Well, we didn't make it to Santa Fe today as planned. We got to Albuquerque around 2:30 pm MTZ and decided to go into the Historical part of town for some shopping there before heading out to Santa Fe. We finished up around 5:00 pm and started to head out to Santa Fe, but the sky looked pretty bad toward Santa Fe. We opened our weather app on the phone and, sure enough, they were getting a really bad storm so we stopped for the night in Bernalillo, NM.

Day 7: We made it into Santa Fe around 10:30 am and headed for the Old Town Historical Town Square shopping for Indian jewelry. Weeee founnnnd sooooommme!



We saw a Harley of a different type today. Well it wasn't a Harley really, as it had an S&S engine, but it was close enough.


We have had great weather yesterday and today with the high only 87 yesterday and today. However, the sky was looking a little ominous as we headed toward Taos, so when we arrived in Taos, we went ahead and reserved a room to make sure we had somewhere to stay tonight. Then we headed out for a ride around The Enchanted Circle that goes up into the mountains. The temperature dropped to a low of 50! There was a light drizzle that turned into a heavier drizzle, but Pam sang, "You are My Sunshine" (those of you who have traveled with us before will have some flashbacks from this! LOL) and the rain finally stopped! It was a beautiful drive though, and we even saw a dinosaur rising out of the ground at the entrance to a ranch! There was snow on some of the mountain peaks still. We drove through Angel Fire where some of the snow skiing happens....I do believe you should be a every experienced professional to ski those slopes! From the top of the mountain to the valley was a great distance. One of the towns was Red River, a small settlement for skiers with a huge ski lift from downtown to the mountain top. We are in for the night, but expect to make a WalMart stop in the a.m. We are kinda having withdrawals! LOL

Pam: I am an observer of people. Being on the bike, we meet a lot of interesting people because it seems to be an ice breaker, and many conversations start with someone commenting on the bike or our traveling on one. One such person was an older gentleman who was well dressed and well groomed who was pushing a walker. I noticed as he walked by he was looking with longing at the bike. He stopped on the way back out and started a conversation by saying he had always wanted to travel on one, but a year ago he became ill and has gone from being a big muscular 250 lb man to a very slim man who doesn't feel like doing a lot. He said at one point during the conversation he felt worthless as a man. I wonder if he was too busy "being a man" and neglected family, Church, and God? Now that he has the time, my prayer is that he can "be the man" he needs to be.

Another was a family of 5, a mother and father with 3 children (one of which was a baby), traveling with his father who I will call grandfather. Father was acting very angry, mother was really far out on some drug, and grandfather was very quiet. The oldest child, a little girl, walked up to me and said, "Hi", but father called her back to the table in a very loud angry voice and she immediately went back to the table. Grandfather made a phone call and said, "Hi, honey. We are in Socorro" and made some more conversation. Then, he handed the phone to father who said, "I promise to follow all the rules, Mama", and "I promise I won't let you guys down!" He was struggling with some really big demons, one of which, I am sure, was moving his own family in with Grandfather and Grandmother. My prayer for them was for father to lose his anger and get some stabilization for his family and find salvation.