Late last month we took a vacation to Santa Fe and Pagosa Springs. We drove from Tulsa to Santa Fe. It’s not that bad of a drive. Almost all the route is Interstate 40.

I love road trips and road trips to the west are wonderful because of the big skies you see once you get past Oklahoma City and are on the Great Plains.

Lots of people think it is a boring drive. Not me! I love it.

Big storm brewing up in the mountains of Santa Fe.

Once we got to Santa Fe and checked into our hotel we found out it had a rooftop bar and swimming pool. We went to check it out when the sun was about to set. We went up there and there were a lot of people. They were not at the bar or in the swimming pool. They were looking at the sky.

Sunset over the Jemez Mountains in the distance.

And a reverse sunset looking south. You can see the New Mexico State Capital and the Sandia Mountains that overlook Albuquerque. I always forget that when one has real mountains, you can see them a long ways off.

And this is looking to the southeast. That storm brewing up that I showed you in the earlier photo. It is still there.

And looking to the southwest.

Back to the Jemez Mountains to the west.

To the northwest. Great skies everywhere you look. We went up to the rooftop every night of our stay. We never got tired of the view.

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