Get Away From The Edge!

I could just hear moms voice shouting that as these pictures were taken. This was at the semi dried river bed that Wilson and I walked around at during the day on Sunday. I saw this small out cropping and had to have Wilson take my picture because I know that mom would freak when she saw it. I tried to get Wilson to go stand there too, but he didn't feel safe there.

 

 

Here's the view looking down from where I was standing. Not too far if you ask me.

 

 

 

I wanted to climb to the big rock in the second picture and have my picture taken there too, but Wilson wouldn't let me.

    This is the rock I was standing on as viewed from the other side of the gorge.

New Mexico Continued

During the day on Sunday when we were in New Mexico, Wilson and I decided to do a little bit of hiking and exploring here are some pictures form that.

A mule deer we saw. This one is real, I promise.

 

 

 

 

 

This rock was huge. Wilson and I stood next to it and only came up to where the white part ends. Of course at the time we didn't think to take a picture standing next to it.

 

 

 

Only two more posts left for this trip. One special one for my mom and then the return trip home.

We Made It

We left Colorado Springs right around 9:00am on Saturday and made it to New Mexico about 2:30pm. So all in all I think we did pretty good considering we made several stops and were going slow in places to take pictures. But anyway, Wilson's parents have several miniature donkeys that they breed and sell. They were very interesting animals.

This is Wilson(on the right) and his father feeding and taking pictures of the donkeys. And yes these donkeys are full grown.

 

 

 

These last three pictures are of Zach. He is the newest edition to the family of donkeys they have. They had somewhere between 10-15 donkeys while I was there but some of them were just there to breed or were about to be sold.

 

This was the view you had from the porch of their house. The last picture is their house. Wilson's dad was burning tumble weeds at the time of the picture, hence the smoke.

And finally the view of the mountains from their house.

Some More Road Trip

Since you all thought the elk was awesome here is another picture of it. Not as cool as the first one but boy did I get you all good. I know, I'm sorry but the first picture looked so real. This "elk" was just a metal cut out on top of a mountain off the road. Now on to the real stuff.

We experienced every season there could possibly be while driving. It started off sunny then went to rain, then snow, then hail, then back to snow, then to rain. It was a very interesting cycle.

 

Here are some of the twisty roads we traveled and some of the views along the way.

The first picture in the third row is a house that was built atop a small mountain. This was a very common thing to see. I think it would be a really cool place to have a home. The picture right below it is chimney rock. You can just see the tip of it sticking through the fog on the left.

That is all for the pictures of the trip to New Mexico. Tomorrow we finally arrive there!