A longer day today. Now we’re close to home.
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.2313582,-103.1073206,5.27z?entry=ttu
Stopped at Ballinger City Park for lunch.
San Antonio KOA.
Another camping cabin. Looks a lot like last night’s in Lubbock.
Identical floor plan. A little newer. A little brighter.
It doesn’t matter where it is to the dogs.
A stop at Capulin Volcano National Monument in New Mexico.
It’s a cinder cone form volcano with a road around the circumference leading to near the summit. It’s a footpath to get to the highest part of the rim. Here is the inside of the cone.
And a very good view.
Now we’re in Lubbock.
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3409567,-104.4380825,6.1z?entry=ttu
A pet friendly camping cabin!
Back to glamping.
First day on the road south. Trinidad, Colorado.
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Beautiful weather. Good roads. An early stop.
Found the last coal burning steam engine in Colorado,
Found Bigfoot.
Tomorrow. Lubbock.
For us? Not at Becky and Brian’s anymore. In our Portland absence, a new bed appeared.
Now we’re in their guestroom.
Weather delayed flights out of, and in to, Denver; going and coming Friday and Monday. Diverted to other cities. Late nights. When we got back to Becky and Brian’s at 1:30 this morning, the World Cup Women’s Soccer match was on live television from New Zealand, so the night got even a little longer. In-between, a very nice Saturday and Sunday in Portland helping Elisa and Solomon celebrate their wedding. Andy and Christie drove down from Washington.
There was a reception party.
Never mind Christie in the background. I think she was savoring a flavor.
Food was abundant.
And not one to be bound by convention, Elisa’s choice for a wedding cake was to have it in the form of an armadillo.
Red velvet, with structure provided by malleable white chocolate, held together by plenty of frosting. Provided by a talented friend.
Lots of people and lots of different conversations at the party. Plenty of time for the six of us to visit the rest of the weekend.
