Popping out of Corando National Forest
We posted four entries today and a movie.
November 19, 2006
Our morning walk was shor; we realized we had camped just a half a mile from pavement. We turned around and made coffee. Then we headed to Portal. We had traveled west to east over the mountains. Now we are down below looking up at the massive stone covered with yellow and red lichen. There are more white barked maple trees. We got water at Sunny Flat Campground, an improved area with restrooms, water, paved road and sites all nested under the rock mountains with wildflowers scatter around. We really liked the forest; a great out of the way place to spend time.
All of sudden you pop out of the Coranado National Forest and you are in with prickly pines and century plants, homes spread out with dirt roads cut into the earth like wounds. Before us stretches a huge valley. We arrived in Portal, town with a general store and café, lodge and a few houses scatter about. Along NM9 we pulled over and had breakfast; Kathy chatted on the phone and Will puzzled. The mountains are like lumps with not trees, just rock tops over tuffs of dirt. We traveled through the grass, creosote bush filled valley.
In Animas we found a wifi hotspot at the high school and spent time internetting. Will spent time also fixing the DVD chart; we have over 500 movies. We finished or avocado and imitation crab salad, washed it down with on orange soda and headed east with the sun at our backs. It pushed us and set behind the hills in Mexico. We found a pull off and parked for the night. Border patrol made there way back and forth checking for aliens. We settled in to relax mode. Our movie was Page Maker followed by Crocodile Hunter.
November 19, 2006
Our morning walk was shor; we realized we had camped just a half a mile from pavement. We turned around and made coffee. Then we headed to Portal. We had traveled west to east over the mountains. Now we are down below looking up at the massive stone covered with yellow and red lichen. There are more white barked maple trees. We got water at Sunny Flat Campground, an improved area with restrooms, water, paved road and sites all nested under the rock mountains with wildflowers scatter around. We really liked the forest; a great out of the way place to spend time.
All of sudden you pop out of the Coranado National Forest and you are in with prickly pines and century plants, homes spread out with dirt roads cut into the earth like wounds. Before us stretches a huge valley. We arrived in Portal, town with a general store and café, lodge and a few houses scatter about. Along NM9 we pulled over and had breakfast; Kathy chatted on the phone and Will puzzled. The mountains are like lumps with not trees, just rock tops over tuffs of dirt. We traveled through the grass, creosote bush filled valley.In Animas we found a wifi hotspot at the high school and spent time internetting. Will spent time also fixing the DVD chart; we have over 500 movies. We finished or avocado and imitation crab salad, washed it down with on orange soda and headed east with the sun at our backs. It pushed us and set behind the hills in Mexico. We found a pull off and parked for the night. Border patrol made there way back and forth checking for aliens. We settled in to relax mode. Our movie was Page Maker followed by Crocodile Hunter.
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