August 9

Chris woke up at 4:30 and wanted to go ahead a get on the road (beat all the downtown traffic) so by 5 we were on the way to Raton. We almost had to go back about 5:40 because he thought he left his phone until I called it and it was in his pocket (this was after pulling over and going through everything in the suitcases, dirty clothes, trash bags, and calling the hotel to tell them to go look in the room for it) So...then we did a little detour of about 40 miles to go through the Valley of Legends which took a couple of hours,and it was beautiful, the last part of Colorado for us but it was really to kill time because we were going to get to Raton about 9 a.m. Anyway we made it here and immediately had to go eat because we were starving. Then checked in and had to immediately take naps because we were stuffed and sleepy from getting up so early. Then we had lots of laundry to do. Chris helped me carry it down, he had to wear his dress pants from his bank meeting, tennis shoes, and a wife beater, I had to wear a bathing suit coverup. That's all we had clean. We went riding around in the rain, looking like homeless people. It's good to be back in New Mexico, it's raining and it is so nice and cool. Hope it doesn't rain in Vermejo tomorrow. We're going fishing with a guide so hopefully we will catch something. Can't wait!