We awoke to 75 degrees and sun and headed out to Las Vegas. I set the GPS to the general area of where we needed to go. Uh huh. Where is everyone? Where is everything? The center of the city was more of a ghost town than the ghost town we visited. Most buildings were deserted and even the architecture was limited. We never even got out of the car. We were parked while I was setting up the GPS for our next stop when an old man in a pick up pulled up next to us and honked. Nick looked up and rolled down his window to hear what the man was saying. He was telling us about Montezuma's Castle and the hot springs that were there.
We drove the 7 or 8 miles up there and found the castle. We took the narrow road up to it and discovered that it is now a college so we couldn't get in to tour the building. Its structure was beautiful. It was originally built in the early 20th century as a hotel. We found the hot springs, but they were not accessible, so they really didn't serve a purpose either.
We went back down the hill and headed for the highway to Santa Fe. Piñon trees lines the mountains. Instead of log cabins, there were mobile homes and bungalows spread out on the highway. What a totally different atmosphere.
We found our campground that we had reservations with and it was very remote. We wanted something closer to town so we decided to go down the mountain and did a quick search online.
We decided to check out Los Campos de Santa Fe. The office was closed. While we were waiting
we met two very nice women from New Orleans who are full time RVers. They recently retired
and were spending a month in Santa Fe. They sold us on the campground and we liked the
location, so we went for lunch to wait for the office to reopen.
We found a Mexican restaurant and they didn't serve seafood, so we decided to eat there. The
tacos were ok, but the sopaipilla was delicious. When we returned, we registered for two nights and went grocery shopping.
I had grabbed a bunch of brochures from the office and one was on Pueblos in the area. I wanted to visit one, so we went back out. As we headed in the direction, we noticed very dark skies in the area, so turned around and went to the mall instead because they had my favorite store.....Dillard's! I bought an outfit for the first day of school. We also saw a Harley store and figured we'd stop there too, but it was closed. It never rained by us, but I saw on the news that the sera near the Pueblo was hit hard. It was cloudy the rest of the night, and we had a little rain later on.
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