We are in Basque, NM this morning. The temp is 39 degrees. Have now been in NM for two days. Left Clovis yesterday morning with a vicious wind blowing most of the day. Made several stops along the way. The most interesting one was at a Spanish Mission at ABO, NM. By then the wind had died down, and we could actually get out and walk around. When we stopped for lunch and gas the wind was blowing so hard that the gas tanks were rocking back and forth. I am not complaining, mind you, especially after having seen the news about the storms in Oklahoma yesterday. They were in the area that Joyce and I had been through two days ago.

Joyce saw lots of flowers yesterday. We traveled Rt. 60 from Clovis to here. Stopped at the National Park Welcome center in Mountainair, NM and picked up a couple of wildflower books for Joyce. She had left a couple books at home that she needed.

Today we are bound for Pie Town. Looking forward to a pie.

Well, we made it to Pie Town, but on the way we stopped at Sevellita National Wildlife Refuge where they had this great walk around the grounds that had all the wildflowers named. Needless to say Joyce was in seventh heaven. Next we drove about 40 miles down I25 to Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge and went through the Cactus Garden. Lots of blooming cacti. A special treat was seeing a Western Tanager. We got several pictures that we will post at a later time.

Next we took Rt 60 west, fighting the wind. BTW: Did you know that RT 60 was the first Transcontinental Highway? Got to the place where we had thought to camp for the night, but was too early in the day so we kept on going. Stopped in Pie Town for Blueberry Pie. YUM YUM. Kept heading west to Springerville, AZ. Did not realize we had switched time zones again. We are now on PDT. We then turned south on Rt 191 through the White Mountains. Ended up here at Hannigan Meadows and are staying in the Lodge tonight. Too windy to set up the camper, and since we are at 9100 ft., oxygen is thin up here and we are not acclimated. Just walking around makes us dizzy and breathless. Temperature was 45 a little while ago.