Day 25 - Santa Fe to Holbrook, AZ

Today, we decided not to wear ourselves out driving 350 - 400 miles and decided to stay in Holbrook, AZ. Why Holbrook? Because it was about the right driving limit for the day. So far, we have seen two motels and a cafe, but there must be more to the town than that. Settled into an Econo Lodge for the night and actually went swimming for a while before a wind and rain storm sent us heading for our room.

Sheila took some great photos during the drive, and it was hard to pick shots to include in the blog today. Basically, we saw so many different changes in geology, it was hard to pick something to express how beautiful this section of our trip was. Of course, there were also some very boring stretches of road as well.

We did manage to break up the trip to Holbrook by stopping for lunch and, of course, Sheila just had to see if she couldn't add to the wealth of Arizona too by checking out the Indian jewelry here. Found some beautiful pieces, but the place we stopped at was a chain and the salesman just tried to high-pressure sale us too much and Sheila didn't pick up a thing. For a while, I was afraid Ruth had created a shopping monster, but then remembered who I have been married to for almost 41 years.

We passed a couple of hot rods from California and this one was cramped in between a couple of 18-wheelers and Sheila couldn't get a good shot of it. If you double-click the photo, it will blow up in size, and there is a great photo of Sheila taking this photo from the Vette at 75 mph reflected in the '35 Ford panel truck paint job.

Still having a great time and still enjoying being together doing things that we have always wanted to do and see and also seeing places we never thought we would ever see. Life is good. K
Today we drove thu the petrified forest,and crossed the Continental Divide. Altitude at the Continental Divide was 7258 feet, pretty high when you consider they call Denver the mile high city. Today decided to drive only 280 miles, drove thru Albuquerque and Gallop. Plan tomorrow to drive to Sedona and the Grand Canyon. We are in Arizona as we speak.
Yesterday when we were in SantaFe I bought a very unusual bracelet, sterling silver with yellow citrine, the artists name was Reginald Eustace, gone are the days of Running Bare and FullMoon. I bought a few other pieces from Miriam Gorman, they all give business cards with the jewelry and have web sites, no squaws sitting in front of teepees weaving cloth.
Today when we checked into our motel room I noticed the clock was an hour earlier than my watch, called the desk and was told that yes they are on Mountain Time, however, they do not practise daylight savings time. I felt as though we had added an extra hour to our day. Sun now out again S