the mancos arrows, electrical car weirdness and christian music- wednesday 6/21/06

pam has to be a saint to make as many wacky stops on this trip as she did. she took pictures, and was game. good for her. not many people would be!

on our way to pagosa springs we stopped after 5pm at THE HOGAN, which is a trading post along route 160. it had show up in one of the books i had looked at before i left. the owners apparently had taken telephone poles, painted and decorated them as arrows, and then shoved them in the ground. it looked like someone up in mesa verde had shot this huge things into the ground. anyway, my goal was to have my picture taken in front of them. pam obliged.

we passed chimney rock on the way to pagosa, got stuck in a traffic jam in the middle of nowhere, and saw a lot of bikers on the road. we also passed a mountain that seemed to have a cross on it, which was weird. this was where we were having the electrical no fly zone with the cell phone AND the cd player and where i had a meltdown because i couldn't get the cd to play! pam snapped the picture from the car window. what a strange site!

we got to pagosa around sunset, and after a few false starts, managed to find linda and chuck's condo in the complex. it was on a lake and had a lovely view of the mountains. there were a lot of very vocal geese that seemed content to honk all night and all day at each other. we moved in all our stuff, pam getting the loft and me the downstairs bedroom. we spent the rest of the evening chatting and looking at linda's scrapbooks of her trip to alaska. she also had one of her trip to hawaii as well as a family one with lots of pictures of her family and friends.

it was a very full day, but a good one!