Santa Fe to Pueblo

Left Las Cruces today travelling to Santé Fe, NM, a unique city, buildings follow the old adobe architecture style. We travelled through the area on the way to AZ in the fall but did not stop. We stayed in a park on the outer edge of Santé Fe, overlooking the city surrounded by the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Santa Fe Skies RV Park is clean, built on the edge of the hill, so sites are terraced, not bad but rather small sites; it has a beautiful view of the city lights at night and is quiet, far enough from the main highway and mostly family, snowbirds with some long term campers.
Santé Fe is the capital of New Mexico, the forth-largest city in New Mexico and the oldest North American Capital City. No other city in North America has so many adobe style buildings and we noticed that the first time we drove by Santé Fe. We only spent the night and did not spend any time investigating the city, maybe next time.
For more information on Santé Fe, very interesting history, click on the link:
http://santafe.org/Visiting_Santa_Fe/Plan_Your_Trip/History/


A view from our campsite, can see a few abobe style buildings.

Another view from our campsite.

As we left the next day, the sun was shinning but as we progressed towards the Raton Pass and into Colorado, the skies were cloudy and we drove through some showers. The terrain changes from desert surrounded by mountains to open almost barren desert, as we get closer to Pueblo, CO our next stop.
We had booked a site for a couple of nights in Pueblo West Campground and Horse Arena, turned out to be an interesting park, which we would not recommend to our friends unless they are interested in horses and rodeo events. Not very clean but at least they did have a large area to let the dogs run and play. We had a site right next to the boarding horse stalls; hmmmmm gotta love that aroma of horse manure. Oh well we plan to spend a few days visiting friends, and it is close to Pueblo West.

Travelling to the Raton Pass between New Mexico and Colorado.

I am always intrigued by landscape along the route. This lone small mountain in the desert.

The building you see is the office of the campground we stayed at on the way down to AZ. This is a small campground but has an awesome view of the mountains and the valley, it sits at the top of Raton Pass.

Heading down the other side of Raton Pass.

In Colorado heading to Pueblo. The desert is so intersting, many different types of landscape.

I liked the colour of the rock against the green trees and the shape.