October 31, 2025 Winslow, Arizona

 73 and sunny. 

We headed into Winslow, Arizona today. John standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona with Jackson Browne. Jackson and Glen Frey from the Eagles co wrote the song. Neither of them have ever been to Winslow. 

My angel John! He is standing  with the Take it Easy wings commemorating the Eagles, they are the group who made the song famous. John is Wanted. 

Two of the corners near the Standing on the corner have Standing on the Corner/ Route 66 gift shops, Relic road Brewing, who don't brew any beer, just sell other peoples, Navajo for Every breath is sacred and my favorite, Happy's Senior Center, mural in town, a couple more Route 66 things, a decoration on a wall and my black bean/ corn chowder soup at the Turquoise Room.  John walking up to La Posada. Built in 1930,  La Posada is one of the last great railroad hotels and known for one of the fanciest on Route 66.

We had lunch at the Turquoise Room at La Posada. We did not dress the same on purpose. Delicious lunch. The Turquoise Room at La Posada.     

Part of the lobby of La Posada. John and I playing the guitar while standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona. 

We are staying at Homolovi State Park so we went to the Homolovi ruins. Homolovi II was at one time  a 1200 room pueblo that housed 750 to 1000 people, had three plazas and possibly 40 kiva's. Parts of it were three stories tall. Most of it is not excavated, only these few rooms and this kiva. There are pot sherds all over the place. 

The rest of the ruin looks like this, a giant pile of rocks. Homolovi I was by the Little Colorado River and most of it got washed away in a flood. It has mostly not been excavated either. There were five large pueblos in the park.

Sunset over the campground. 

October 28 - 30, 2025 Bernalillo to Church Rock , New Mexico to to Winslow, Arizona

 68 and sunny.

This historic site is right next to the campground. And unfortunately it is closed today. There is a brewery on the other side of the campsite. It is open. John and this katydid both enjoyed beers and we had dinner.

The Rio Grande River at dusk. The bus at Red Rock Campground.

Wild flowers in the campground. Entrance to the rodeo arena. The campground is part of a larger complex with the event center , rodeo grounds, post office and a museum.

Mural on the outside of the event center and one in the museum. Kachina dolls and pots in the museum.

Mural in the museum and mural on the outside of the museum. Church rock in sort of sunset. 

Fast trails with double decker containers zipping along by the highway. Lots of Indian Art stores leaving New Mexico. Welcome to Arizona. Arizona is on standard time all year, so we lost an hour crossing the border. Sunday the clocks change, Tues we are going into California, which is another time zone. What time is it??

The bus in Homolovi State park, outside Winslow , Arizona. 71 and sunny. Wild burros in Homolovi State Park outside Winslow, Arizona. 

Wild burros in Homolovi State Park outside Winslow, Arizona. I finished this masterpiece on the drive today. It is made with dyed pine needles, polyester thread, glass, blue magnetite and metal beads. The center is a piece of selenite that I sandblasted, then painted petroglyphs on. It is 11 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 2 inches. I love the colors in this one.  Sunset from camp. 

October 26-27 , 2025 Valles Caldera National preserve to Bernalillo, New Mexico

 68 and sunny.

Welcome to Valles Caldera. Valles Grande is a huge meadow in the middle of the caldera. When the volcano erupted it blew out tons of magma. The the huge magma chamber emptied and the land above collapsed in to the vacant magma chamber. They say there is a herd of about 1,000 elk in here. The valley is hard to photograph because it is so big. 

Cerro La Jara is a rounded wooded hill from a smaller eruption into the caldera. One of the historic cabins at the edge of the meadow.

Views on our drive into the caldera. 

Coming out of the trees into the big meadow. A historic building with a corral. 

More historic cabins and the visitor's center. There was a herd of about 200 head of elk in the valley. The inset at the bottom is a sort of closer up of the elk. 

This whole area is deep canyons and mesas. The aspen are golden on the mesa tops. 

Aspens. Sunset.

Sunset. Asters, senecio, a statue of a CCC worker. CCC built the road into Frijoles canyon. Of course the road is closed due to the shutdown, so we didn't travel on it, the setting moon in sunset. 

Cottonwoods are still blazing.  We fueled up at $3.39

The bus the Coronado RV Park, in Bernalillo, New Mexico. Sunset. 

Sunset. 

The shade shelter in our campsite.