Travel day to Chama, NM
Today was travel day to Chama NM. This is a longer trip than we prefer but it wasn’t too bad. We stopped in Santa Rosa NM for Diesel and Donna drove to Santa Fe. We ate lunch at the Upper Crust pizza place on the outskirts of town and it was a convenient stop but just fair food. It had location in its favor. I drove the rest of the way to Chama. The coach engine got pretty hot on the long uphill through the mountains but never overheated. I didn’t recall seeing it get that hot before so I need to monitor for a while to make sure its OK. Our first night in Chama is at Lil Creel. This is a nice wooded park and we have a back in spot backing up to the Rio Chama. Really nice. The weather is much cooler here and this evening, walking Maverick I would even say “chilly”. Boy, that’s nice after 100+ deg weather at home and so far on this trip. Tomorrow we will check out the town of Chama. We have always turned at Chama on the way to Pagosa but have never actually seen the town. It has a variety of restaurants and a steam train similar to the Durango-Silverton train. Donna checked today and its about $200 per person round trip so we won’t take the train ride. Instead we will just check it out at the depot. The river here is beautiful and lots of kids were playing in the water earlier. Maverick cooled his paws in the river earlier but that was all. We’ve kept him out of the ponds/lakes around McKinney this summer for a variety of reasons and I think we’ve conditioned him to avoid the water. He will probably recover pretty quick. Tonight we watched a movie in the coach. Tomorrow and the next day will be about exploring this area.