THE RED ROCK LOOP

Yesterday was beautiful day…Hardly a cloud in the sky with the temperature in the upper 70’s…We could never experience this kind of drive without the Jeep…We pack a lunch with snacks and start the day long trip…We took a shorter loop and it was only 148 miles…There are places that we were just crawling along and then there were places where we could get up to 30 mph…The scenery is as beautiful as any in the world…Still snow in the mountains made a backdrop of an unforgettable experience…Life has a way of changing my outlook to really appreciate the beauty of this world we live in…

The pictures are a good reminder of our experience, but you really don’t have the feel, touch, smells, that come from actually being there…Breathing in higher elevations, feeling the cool breeze rolling and cascading from the snow caped mountain tops to a warm meadow where picnic tables are set up on the lake front of a Federal Refuge…

Animals are everywhere…Birds, deer, prong horns, raptures, and of course the few individuals that venture in there own way…We are on the continental divide that runs from Canada to Mexico…The experience of meeting international individuals and their methods of transportation to concur the divide were experiences that are truly unforgettable…We have met people that were hiking, bicycling, and of course cars and pickups…Our conversations with each encounter is an education within itself…

You may ask about what age group would want to experience the physical strain of going the distance…Some are doing it to beat someone who made it in a shorter time…As one one couple explained, “We are not racing anyone, we are just doing it”…They are senior citizens…We met two young men, one from California and the other one from Maryland…They were challenged to depart from Canada and end in Mexico…

It seems that almost everyone is wanting to talk and relate their experiences…I say almost everyone…And some seem to want to be the south end of a horse going north…We try to remember that some( a lot) of people from other countries and languages are enjoying our great country…Most can speak English and some cannot…I can speak a little Spanish and most often we are able to communicate successfully…

I will talk to you later…As you can see, life has very rewarding for us…Philip