Happy in Santa Fe wandering through galleries with some of the strangest "art" we have ever seen. Mapquest says you have to go south to get to Colorado (thru Bakersfield and over Tehachapi Pass), which we have done a jillion times. We thought we could get on the road and get to Colorado in a day. Unh unh. Through Yosemite, took a day, the looooooooooong trip through Nevada that was alternately boring or dramatic with thunderstorms, and then Utah. We went over Monarch Pass at 11,300' in Colorado and tried not to faint from the tension of the corkscrew road. Back to the boat was, according to Mapquest, best served by going south. We could do that. We have done it many times....familiar roads. We zipped out of the desert heat to the cool Bay area and felt we could breath again. One of us said in the past that she did not want to ever drive that (expletive deleted) road ever again. The option is to explore, as we did heading east: soft green hills to craggy stone formation in Nevada, small towns in Utah and the seemingly groomed mountain areas in Colo. I kept wondering where the the wilderness was as it was so groomed, so settled, even in the vast distances of Nevada. Makes you really wonder just how those pioneers did it - no motels, minimal water and heat, Indians, and salted food. How does one find the place for inner peace and contemplation if the hand of man has touched all the land? On the ocean. So we plan. This photo will be the entry photo for the Baja HaHa. And we are still accepting crew applications.
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