Sept. 27,2009

After leaving OR. we stopped in Wellington UT. so Jerry could go to the dinosour musem there, stayed there for a few days, just to catch up with everything like buying food and doing the laundry, then onto Moab, went to the Arches National Park, very beautiful to see, I have to say one of the best things we did before starting out on our trip is get a Sr. Pass from the National Parks, only cost $10.00 and it lasts a life time and gets you in all the National parks, it has saved us a lot of money.

Now in Durgrano, CO. for four nights, we were going to do the train ride thru the mountains, but was a little more then we wanted to spend so we did the 200 hundred mile drive instead, was glad we did as we could stop when we wanted and got a lot of good photos, also took the tram up too a view point at one of our stops and that was free.

We are now in N.M. for the balloon festival which we have tickets for on the 3rd of Oct. so we are able to day trip from the park we are staying in which is between Santa Fe and Albuquerque, so yesterday went into Santa Fe for the day, had a fun day, had lunch @ Berts Burgers, they had won a contest for the best burgers on a cook off on TV which I had seen a while back so wanted to go there, they were good but my own are just as good, so Jerry and I thought. Jerry went off to a car show today not to far from the park, I choose to stay at home to do things I wanted to do.

Was thinking about some different things as most of the parks we, have stayed in have been by train tracks and we can hear the trains in the distance,so when I thought about it when I was growing up we lived not far from the train station and so we could hear the trains when going by and also with-in at least 15 mile there was a prison. Jerry and I have lived in three states, since getting married, of cousre we started in MD., then VA. and FL. all the homes we lived in were near enough that we could hear the trains passing and all had a prison near by, so when I starting hearing the trains in the parks where we stay I checked to see if there was a prison near by and most of the places there was indeed one near by. Just thought that was interesting so I wanted to share.

That's all for now will write more after going to the Balloon Festival!