Tuesday, 31 March – Zig Zag across New Mexico.

We do try to get a little exercise every day so we woke up and thought we should take a walk.  Linda (remember the chocolate bomb?) had given us some pecan rolls to take along.  Ellen heated them up in the microwave but things got out of hand.

Two fisted caramel pecan rolls.  (Thanks again to Linda and Rich!)

We did end up walking into town for a couple of miles and found some ancient hieroglyphs  carved into the bed rock.

We did discover that Santa Rosa is the home of the “Blue Hole”.   Even thought it’s in the middle of the desert, it’s an artesian spring that’s over 80 feet deep.  It’s bell mouthed which means that its wider at the bottom than at the top.  It expels 3,000 gallons of crystal clear water per minute and is a constant 61 degrees year round.  SCUBA divers come here all year long.

Looking down into the Blue Hole

Ye old swimming hole.  The buoys hold up platforms underwater for the divers to hold while they decompress coming back up.

We could have headed straight west toward Albuquerque, but we wanted to take the ‘old’ route up through Santa Fe, which was a lot longer, but seemed to be more interesting.  We did like the Santa Fe area when we were there last year.  We kind of hurried our way through both Santa Fe and also Albuquerque since we had explored that area just last year.  (Check out this blog for entries back in March last year….).

We had enough time to make it to Grants, NM and found a nice campsite to bed down.  Last night in Santa Rosa, we ended up enrolling as new members of the "Good Sam" club.  It's an organization for RV'ers and encourages good behavior and support for both campgrounds and campers.  My Uncle Jim and Aunt Shirley (not my cousins) were avid members when they had their camper.  Hope we can be good Samaritans too!

Good Night!

Tomorrow will be Arizona and then only California after that!