Four Summers ago New Mexico

Four summers ago, after a serious case of island fever (while living on a small island in the Caribbean), we bought a motorhome in the USA and we have crossed 31 states during four summers. 

Since it is that time of the year again and we are now living in Spain, I wanted to take you on our trips and show details thereof through the pictures.

The first trip was only for a long weekend, to see if the motorhome that we intended to purchase, would meet our expectations; we had done thorough research on the internet, but still...

So in this weekend we traveled to Albuquerque (where the car was) and to Santa Fe, where the very nice owner lived and invited us to his home.

The owner was so nice as to lend us his motorhome and make a testdrive (and camp with it) during the weekend, before we decided on the purchase.

 The New Mexico state map was quite handy to get around. We enjoyed the adobe houses, the strings of chillies (chillielovers that we are), the architecture, the colours of the houses and windows, the food and the spectacular countryside. The land seemed so empty and arid, but when you took a good look you discovered the pueblos. We were the only campers in the campground near the Cochiti pueblo and because it was March, it was cold at night, very cold!

The motorhome was ours, we parked it at the dealer until we could really start our first trip of two months during this 2009 summer.
The New Mexico state stamp is from the title of our 'summerhome'.

Next time: the start of our vacation in New Mexico and Arizona...

(you can find more on these trips here, and in this and this post )

And if you have been, thanks for reading, have a great weekend!

Regina