NEW MEXICO

Saturday March 21

We left Colorado around noon when the roads finally

were clear.  We headed for Pasago, CO by way of

New Mexico.  We'd never been in New Mexico.

The scenery was breath taking. Miles and Miles of

very crooked roads, snow, snow and more snow. Miles

of just snow and going up a mountain and then back down

again...over 7,000 feet high. 

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Enlarge so you can the direction sign.  Others like this was every

few miles.  We went about 30 and saw just snow, mountains,

 trees and beautiful scenery and not one house for all those miles

These pictures just don't show how it really was.

We arrived in Pagosa around 4 o'clock.  Found our RV park,

then went to the Hot Mineral Springs.  The water that comes

out of the mountains is 154 degrees.  There are at least 20

areas/springs to get into.  They start at 94 degrees, up to 110

degrees.  We got in one of the 102 degrees, then decided to

walk in the pool which led over to a one that was 104.  There

was a grandmother, daughter and granddaughter already in it.

We asked each other where we were from.....the grandmother \

is a neighbor of Alan Kested in Loveland, CO.

Can you see the blue areas between the river and the white

building?  They are some of the 20 hot pools.

We were in this one, overlooking all the others.

Like my new black swim suit?  hehehe

See the posts and ropes?  We walked between them over to
the pool at the end.  That's where we met the people from
Loveland, neighbors of Kested's.

While Larry was changing in the men's locker room. He got
to talking to someone and they were telling each othere
where they were from.  All Larry said was NYS, north of
Alband and west of Lake George.  A young fella standing
near them spoke up and said that his parents live in
Northville, NY.  He was Acquira's son.  They live across
from Kings cemetery which borders our property.  I use to
be in garden club with his mother and have been to
their house.
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http://www.pagosa.com/pagosa_hot_springs.php