Sunday 3 April 2016


March 28 & 29, 2016
Well we made it to Gallup New Mexico and there are some great hikes and mountain biking here, but they are having major sand storms. The winds are blowing 100km an hour and within minutes you are caked in dust and Bill is coughing like crazy.
We went on a couple of hikes in the area and we were the only ones out braving this weather.  Definitely no crowds here and very camper friendly.  You can park at Wal-Mart, casinos, pretty much anywhere.  Quite cool – temperature around 10.
We really enjoyed hiking at El Morrow Monument.

I can close my eyes and imagine the comfort and refreshment of finding water after days of dusty travel.  A reliable waterhole hidden at the base of a sandstone bluff made El Morro a popular stop for hundreds of years. 
Ancestral Puebloans, Spanish and American travelers carved over 2000 signatures, dates, messages and petrographs.
We also saw the Ancestral Puebloan Ruins – between 1250 -- 1350 AD up to 1500 people lived in the 875 room pueblo.


























































We found some good mountain biking trails, but the weather was just not going to co-operate –
with the high winds and dust storms.

We stopped at a Starbucks to do some more research on getting a flight to Maui and we found out that Bill can’t bring his gear to Maui from Albuquerque as it is an express flight to LA and they don’t take oversized baggage.  
We are thinking maybe if we drive to Denver – they can accommodate Bill’s gear.

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