Another Nasty, Snowy Day

It was quiet when we woke this morning and the sky was blue --

But by the time we were all ready to go, this is what the sky was looking like and we were getting skiffs of snow --

 My intrepid driver was heard muttering to himself --

I don't think he liked the patches of wet, white stuff appearing on the windshield --

We started seeing the beautiful rocks and color as we headed east on Interstate 40, but didn't think those patches of snow we started to see were very pretty.

It was getting downright nasty!

It seems like no matter when we come to New Mexico, we run into SNOW!

We stopped at the New Mexico Welcome Center to pick up a new state map and some brochures. Their flags were all at half-mast due to the Boston bombings...

We brought some of the snow with us, but by this time, we were out of the worst of it.

We had traveled through the Hopi Reservation and now were passing through the Navajo Reservation. This farmstead is typical of many we saw with a round hogan adjacent to one of the houses.

We actually made pretty good time and got into USA RV Park outside of Gallup a little after 2:30. Of course we are now on Mountain Daylight Time, so have essentially lost an hour. By the time we got the jack pads down and the power hooked up, I was chilled through. My body does not like going from the 90 degrees of Mesa to this cold! (As I write this at 9:30, it's already 33.5. It's gonna freeze tonight!)