New Mexico Trippin

We took a few days and explored the Northern Part of New Mexico and took some pictures of the area.  While this time of year it is brown and dry, it would be very pretty in the Spring and Summer with all the trees and fields there.  The river walk is nice with miles of trails and we drove up to Durango where it is much like Park City.  I loved it there and want to go back and walk through the shops.

                                               On the River Walk

Just a random park bench shot

                                                                  

                                

               

                                                  Aztec was cute town and

                                                  decorated for Christmas

         

We passed this several times from the Hotel, must be working

as we never saw anyone there!

                                Allie was excited to get out of the car and play in the snow!                                

Durango was very nice

                                                           Not sure if I would eat here              

                                                         The icicles were big in Durango

                                      

                                                    We have a Snow at our house!

Icicles off of our bench during the ice fog

We had 2 days of Ice Fog which created some cool looking frost,

 it was just too cold to get some more pics

A warm day for a hike!

We actually had a really nice morning where the wind wasn't blowing and it was quite nice out so Allie and I went for a walk.  Since Allie and I are in Search and Rescue I needed to teach her to jump a down wire fence.  She was reluctant at first and after some training she just couldn't stop, so I took that opportunity and got some shots.  Me go for a  hike without the camera........no way!  BTW we are back to cold, windy days...  (there are no deer shots, wasn't any out today)

I love this shot! (click on it to see it better)

Here she comes again!

She brought sticks over the fence

Going to try this again....

It has been two weeks since we went private and I just opened it up again so other friends can access it.  We will see if the wierd hit from other countries return.  Lets hope not.

Blog going Private

We are getting from wierd hits as far as Dubai, so we are going to go private by the end of the week.  Then we will try public again in a few weeks to see if the outside hits goes away.

Espana!

Si, it is true that we spent 7 days in the South of Spain on the Mediterranean Sea and what a adventure for 3 Americans, one Irish and a friend from England. We rented a car in Malaga and drove to Nerja where we stayed in a beautiful hotel. Our room had amazing views of the sea, not that we stayed much in the room and the food was amazing. Mark even liked it, the picky ole fart and the European Breakfast buffet quite good. We had quite a few adventures.....driving the wrong way on a one way street, driving down a closed street with some Spanish guy yelling at us and trying to turn around on these "foot paths" they call roads, conquering the round abouts the Spanish way or you would get run over, learning to navigate our way out of Malaga and we can't forget the car lift elevator we got stuck in! It was international fun to remember! Here are a few of our picture highlights.....yes....MUY BEIN......! (we went to a Mexican restaurant -twice and the Spanish guy working there was hilarious....Muy Bein was his favorite word) We have pictures of that place to. A word to those travelling to Spain.......there is no such thing as eat and run. The Spanish way is slow and they don't hurry you out of restaurants, come to think of it, it was that way at the passport check in Madrid which nearly cost us another night in Spain as we nearly missed our connection back to America.

Yup, that is the Mediterranean in the back of us

Below Mexican Restaurant fun, the food was great

Tapas- a traditional buffet that is shared

Paealla- a rice dish

Sunrise

Playing in the sea

Nerja

Sunset

View from our Hotel

The Car Lift!

Our bathroom-that is not the toilet but handy to wash the sand from our feet

Frigilana

Our Hotel

The Balcony of Europe

                                                

                                                    Below more of the Mexican Resturant

           

Off the Balcony of Europe

A seaside cafe, they spoke no English here.

Our Verdana outside of our room

Driving to Nerja

All of us in the tiny elevator in the hotel

The last day was cold in the sea

Cabanas in Torreon

We are in a town outside of Motril

The Sea is that blue!

We will never forget the Car Lift down to the parking

Statue of the King of Spain

Enjoying the beach

Mark found Hamburgers there

The road outside of our Hotel

On the beach near Motril

Lots of cats everywhere

In Frigilana, a cute cafe that was good at the bottom

Our room

Mark resting after 3 connections to get here