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| On the way home we did an overnight in Flagstaff to watch the UND men's BB team get beat by one point. The covered football arena also is where the Lumberjacks play basketball. |
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| Two couples who are wintering in Scottsdale also came along but didn't join us on our continued trek to the cold country. |
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| Flagstaff had gotten three feet of snow and walking and driving was treacherous. I guess they don't have the equipment to move snow of that amount. |
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| With the mountains in our rear view mirror we headed east. |
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| We stopped at the Meteor Crater site east of Flagstaff. I remember reading of it as a boy so it was fun to see it. It is privately owned so the entrance fee is a bit pricey. It is 4000 feet wide and 550 feet deep. The iron from the meteor largely vaporized when it hit. |
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| Astronauts train here because the terrain is similar to places like the moon. A man thought he would make a fortune mining the iron from it but never found it. His heirs and a rancher's family still own the place. |
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| Then off into New Mexica where we had a picnic at a rest stop. Yep, we really did. |
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| We stopped to see Pat and walk in her park-like setting behind her condo. |
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| This Robin encouraged me to think that Spring really may be not too far away. Many of them seem to hang out in Santa Fe during the cold months. |
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| Blue birds also find the high desert a good place to winter. I wish we could get more of them up north, though I have seen them occasionally at the lake in Minnesota. |
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| Santa Fe is definitely Native American country and has an interesting history. |
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| Cattle drives used to end in Santa Fe and the art still reflects those days from the past. Stops in Oklahoma City, and Sioux Falls were our last on the way back to the still frozen north country. I saw no Robins or Bluebirds since being home. Only snow drifts and salt covered streets. Welcome home! |
