We left New Mexico to escape one hundred plus days and not-so-cool nights. Spent a night in Santa Rosa but it was too hot to go outside. We then stopped in Trinidad, CO, to see Marilyn’s sister Nancy (from Raton, NM).

We had lunch at a wonderful Italian restaurant, Nano and Nana’s. If you get a chance, it’s a must. But hurry, the mother is about to retire and the daughter may not take over.

We had a lovely visit with Nancy and spent an hour or so exploring Trinidad. It’s a beautiful little city, but even in the mountains of southern Colorado it was still too hot (and we could still see snow on the Rocky Mountains west of town and on Pike’s Peak to the nor

If you’d like to follow our travels a little closer, we were introduced to Polarsteps by a friend of Bob’s sister Marilyn. It shows our path and sometimes has pictures and/or comments from Marilyn.